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How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?

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Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?

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CSMastermind wrote: post #58
ryanhecht wrote: post #35

Excellent information if you're playing Jet Lag: The Game's[1] home game[2] 1: https://www.youtube.com/c/jetlagthegame 2: https://store.nebula.tv/products/hideandseek

I've been meaning to try it out in NYC because it seems like that's one of few geos they playtested. It's super fun in other cities but you have to modify the rules and cards a bunch to make it work.

I'm a huge theme park nut that lives in Orlando - I'm trying to design a version that can work across Walt Disney World (or maybe even ALL of Orlando's theme park campuses).

Photos pose a huge challenge because my friends (fellow theme park nuts) can pick out the smallest details in every park -- even the color of pavement and themed lighting fixtures! I'm having fun thinking of what adaptations to make.

Agreed that this product would be better as a game design framework rather than a ready-to-play game in any geo (and tbh, would be a better fit for what Jet Lag is all about: people designing games for themselves to play!)

Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?

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Post by gumperbumper »

fldskfjdslkfj wrote: post #49
marcinzm wrote: post #41

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The PATH train does exactly that.

the PATH train is a lousy a replacement. Just look at the connectivity and coverage of NJ vs Queens & Brooklyn: https://stewartmader.com/wp-content/uploads/Subway-NY-NJ-sca...

The NJ side is definitely sad, but your map is missing NJ transit.

Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?

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Post by karaterobot »

> Isochrones are manually calculated using turf.js assuming 1.2m/s walking speed after the subway trip.

This is super cool, and I don't want the following statement to be taken as a criticism, because it's an unrealistic expectation: I do not rely on estimates like this until they are ground-truthed.

Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?

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Post by rangestransform »

acjohnson55 wrote: post #52
marcinzm wrote: post #41

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The PATH train does exactly that.

It would make much more sense for it to be unified with the MTA subway, with more connectivity. My dream would be a single seat ride from Newark Airport to Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, via Newark Penn Station and World Trade Center. There was also once a proposal to have the 7 train go out to Seacaucus Junction, which would be huge for accessing the East Side for NJers.

That would cause a huge headache for the NYC side to be subject to FRA regulations, it’s a big part of why PATH costs so much to run

Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?

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Post by RhysU »

llamaimperative wrote: post #28
HPsquared wrote: post #20

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The subway is the big expensive investment. In theory, businesses and housing etc would develop around the stations. Like how suburbs develop around train stations.

And then landowners who were “smart” enough to own land where this ends up going in get to reap all the financial upside, instead of the public which actually invested in that infrastructure. Just imagine if the public could capture the (financial) upside it produces, then it could apply that money to do the same thing down the road, then do the same thing again down the road further. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He…

> Just imagine if the public could capture the (financial) upside it produces...

Like through taxes on the sale of the property or the increased business income it produces? The public will.

Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?

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Post by CSMastermind »

ryanhecht wrote: post #71
CSMastermind wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been meaning to try it out in NYC because it seems like that's one of few geos they playtested. It's super fun in other cities but you have to modify the rules and cards a bunch to make it work.

I'm a huge theme park nut that lives in Orlando - I'm trying to design a version that can work across Walt Disney World (or maybe even ALL of Orlando's theme park campuses). Photos pose a huge challenge because my friends (fellow theme park nuts) can pick out the smallest details in every park -- even the color of pavement and themed lighting fixtures! I'm having fun thinking of what adaptations to make. Agreed that…

So I actually live in Orlando and bought the game with the intent of doing exactly that...

I'm not a theme park nut but that seemed like a fun way to play the game (actually I was thinking Universal might work better but I wasn't sure).

Definitely share if come up with something good.

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