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Showing posts with label nj transit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nj transit. Show all posts
Friday, January 27, 2017

Do we need the Port Authority Bus Terminal?

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In 2015 I talked about the proposal to build a new bus terminal in downtown Flushing, and came up with the following list of six features. ...
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Five rail-trails we'd like to see reactivated

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Last month, the (Greater) Detroit Free Press told us of a section of trail the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (near Marquette ) that had once b...
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Friday, November 9, 2012

What you need for a good bus bridge

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It's my hope that New Yorkers will remember three events from the recovery from Hurricane Sandy. The first is the gridlock and chaos th...
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Monday, November 5, 2012

The disaster of New Jersey's emergency transit plan

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New Jersey's transportation infrastructure is in crisis. New Jersey Transit told Businessweek that 257 rail cars and 65 engines (23% a...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

How many Jakriborgs is that?

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Earlier this year, the Small Streets Blog introduced us to the planned community of Jakriborg, founded in 1990 on 12.5 acres of farmland bet...
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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Frequent transit in Hudson County, New Jersey

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A common complaint about transit in New Jersey is that there is no official map with bus lines. New Jersey Transit provides maps of its com...
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Thursday, July 26, 2012

More cars on the streets of Tenafly

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Peter Rustin, the mayor of Tenafly, New Jersey, is against the current plan to restore passenger service to the Northern Branch of the Erie ...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

The missed opportunities of the Northern Branch

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I had to admit that New Jersey Transit isn't planning to pave paradise for the parking lots on the Erie Railroad Northern Branch. They...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

They paved some crap, and put up a parking lot

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There's too much parking in New Jersey Transit's plans to restore passenger service on the Northern Branch of the Erie Railroad. Th...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Mystery models of the Northern Branch

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I'm old enough to remember the days when computers were expensive enough that the only people who could afford one had either a lot of m...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The problem with the Northern Branch project

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For a months now I've been telling people that the "transit" proposed for the bridge is just sprawl transit , and it's tru...
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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Budget goblins: the phantom menace

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I've been meaning to write something about the shenanigans across the river with the "ARC Tunnel." I agree with a lot of the ...
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Saturday, September 5, 2009

More examples of profitability

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I've spent a bunch of time recently talking about the profitable Lincoln Tunnel buses . Some of these companies, particularly the ones ...
Monday, August 31, 2009

The man behind the Simpson Curtain

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Last week I posted about arguments for free public transit, some of which refer to the "Simpson-Curtain rule." "Politicall...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

More on the profitable Lincoln Tunnel buses

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Astute readers will have noticed that I'm interested in free transit, but I'm also interested in profitable transit. Mainly I'm ...
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Sunday, July 12, 2009

More on the XBL and profitability

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Last week I lamented that the National Transit Database did not provide figures for mode share. However, I did find something interesting:...
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