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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?
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
In some countries the transit companies (public or private) also become the landowners of the adjacent areas - this would be the "rail plus property" model. In fact, the rail plus property model allows the rail operate to better capture their added value, so it applies even in "private" scenarios. The most famous example would be Tokyo. The goal shouldn't be for the public to be able to reap direct financial benefits…
This is the case in Hong Kong as well. The subway company is also involved in the malls built on top of them.
There are malls and neighborhoods built entirely around the subway station
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
In theory. The commuter rail I sometimes take follows an old rail right of way. Some of the stations are in fairly developed areas. But some of those, like Concord, presumably predate even the original rail. And a lot of the towns are pretty spread out. You can't walk to much until you get to the last two stops in the city proper.
This is because the T is not a "real" transit system in the way that it's simply not designed to move enough people fast enough to compete with cars.
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#94I'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%…
You missed Adelaide's O-Bahn, which is another way to mitigate the "buses get stuck in traffic" problem.
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#95But how long does it take to get to Mornington Crescent?
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#96Nice effort and just shows you how far the art/science of dataviz has come with the ability of websites to work like realtime game engines. This is the same information visually expressed in a grid chart from 1983 by Edward Tufte (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information). While the method can't scale the same way it feels like a more creative approach : https://www.edwardtufte.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/VD…
I wouldn't say that Maray's chart as cited by Tufte is directly comparable: it displays the timings of trains along a one-dimensional railway, therefore displaying two dimensions of continuous data for each train (the second dimension being time). The online map displays a two-dimensional area, with an extra (quantized, not continuous) dimension of time with the colour-coding. It's a tradeoff between displaying more precision for fewer train timings or less precision for many train timings.
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#97Apparently you can walk to North Brother Island in 20 minutes from 138th St.
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
No, taxes on the unimproved value of the land
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#99I 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)
Yeah, I wish I could get from Astoria to Forest Hills in only 40 minutes.
Re: How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC?
#100I'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.
Trams do need dedicated lanes.