Much slower than I would have guessed
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?
#82This is great. It doesn't paint a full picture, however. It's certainly possible to go farther leveraging the other rail lines in the area: PATH, LIRR, Metro North, NJ Transit Light Rail
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#83I'm of the opinion that every 500k+ city should have a subway line. I grew up in a city with one (just one for the majority of my 20 years there) and if there's one thing I miss from that place it's the ability to move at an average speed of 35km/h at any time the trains were operating, especially at 2am on a Friday night after a couple of beers with the guys. The other thing I noticed when I was visiting my family t…
If not a subway at least some form of transport that won't get stuck in gridlock. Three examples I can think of are the Wuppertal suspension railway, Las Vegas monorail (though more of a tourist pull than for the locals) and the dedicated Metrobus lanes in Mexico City.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Monorail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_Metrob%C3%BAs
What others have I missed?
(btw I never noticed before that HN can't handle UTF-8 chars in urls)
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#84It's crazy how dysfunctional the state structure can be - in any functioning country the subway would extend to NJ.
Transit in NJ is served by PATH, NJ Transit Rail, and NJ Transit Light Rail
They share multiple exchanges.
Crossing state lines causes regulations to triple (new state, and federal), so this is what we have.
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#85I'm of the opinion that every 500k+ city should have a subway line. I grew up in a city with one (just one for the majority of my 20 years there) and if there's one thing I miss from that place it's the ability to move at an average speed of 35km/h at any time the trains were operating, especially at 2am on a Friday night after a couple of beers with the guys. The other thing I noticed when I was visiting my family t…
If not a subway at least some form of transport that won't get stuck in gridlock. Three examples I can think of are the Wuppertal suspension railway, Las Vegas monorail (though more of a tourist pull than for the locals) and the dedicated Metrobus lanes in Mexico City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Monorail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_Metrob%…
American cities of 500k people really don’t see gridlock though. Maybe a couple blocks downtown by the highway ramps thats it.
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#86This is great. It doesn't paint a full picture, however. It's certainly possible to go farther leveraging the other rail lines in the area: PATH, LIRR, Metro North, NJ Transit Light Rail
Depends what your transfer process looks like. Some of those trains are not very frequent at all outside the 9-5 commute pattern.
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#87I love it, but as someone who lives in Queens I think it’s underestimating by maybe 20% or 30%, particularly when a transfer or significant walking is involved (and I walk quite fast)
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#88I'm of the opinion that every 500k+ city should have a subway line. I grew up in a city with one (just one for the majority of my 20 years there) and if there's one thing I miss from that place it's the ability to move at an average speed of 35km/h at any time the trains were operating, especially at 2am on a Friday night after a couple of beers with the guys. The other thing I noticed when I was visiting my family t…
Having lived in / visited a few dozen cities in Europe, I actually think trams are generally preferable to subways. In places with both, I tend to use the trams almost exclusively.
A hop on, hop off tram system is much quicker and efficient than going into a subway station, then back up, etc. At least if you aren’t going entirely across town.
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#89> 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.
I wonder if they factored in the time to walk to and from the surface and platform here. Also intersection signal patterns on the surface.
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#90I'm of the opinion that every 500k+ city should have a subway line. I grew up in a city with one (just one for the majority of my 20 years there) and if there's one thing I miss from that place it's the ability to move at an average speed of 35km/h at any time the trains were operating, especially at 2am on a Friday night after a couple of beers with the guys. The other thing I noticed when I was visiting my family t…
If not a subway at least some form of transport that won't get stuck in gridlock. Three examples I can think of are the Wuppertal suspension railway, Las Vegas monorail (though more of a tourist pull than for the locals) and the dedicated Metrobus lanes in Mexico City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Monorail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_Metrob%…
yes, but wikipedia can handle unaccented