I saw something very similar to this some years back. Can't remember the site though.
NYC Subwaysheds
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#12What a weirdly cool buy very niche site. Why 40 minutes? Why just NYC? Why just subways?
Because it’s a niche site and that’s what it’s about?
“Interesting niche site about birds in the authors backyard. But why doesn’t it also talk about the trees in my backyard?”
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#13This is a very cool visualization!
I'm especially impressed by how it handles the local and express routes: North Brooklyn is only about 15 minutes door-to-door from Lower Manhattan on the Fulton Line[1] express A train, and the map correctly shows that. Nice work!
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#14Love it, but UWS to Bushwick in 40 minutes - I wish!
This feels like a 10th percentile stat. Change the 10-40m range to be 15-55m and it will be closer to what I experience on a daily basis.
Great resource for visitors to NYC to set expectations.
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#15I'm not from NYC, so maybe this is obvious, but why can you not get from Staten Island to Manhattan in 40mins? Is there really not bridge/tunnel that can get you there?
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#16What a weirdly cool buy very niche site. Why 40 minutes? Why just NYC? Why just subways?
Why would you go to subawaysheds.com to learn about taxicab stands? that would obviously be taxicabstands.com.
Why just NYC? Because does anything else exist outside of NYC? Maybe atlantic city, or the catskills, or niagra falls, but everything else is just unimportant
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#17What a weirdly cool buy very niche site. Why 40 minutes? Why just NYC? Why just subways?
As a New Yorker: 40 minutes is roughly my boundary between "ordinary trip with no prior thought" and "I'll set aside a dedicated time and/or day to make this trip."
The city's bus lines are much more variable in service, and don't offer as many interborough routes.
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#18I'm not from NYC, so maybe this is obvious, but why can you not get from Staten Island to Manhattan in 40mins? Is there really not bridge/tunnel that can get you there?
There is no direct bridge or tunnel between Manhattan and Staten Island, only a ferry. Staten Island is connected to Brooklyn via the Verrazano Bridge.
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#19I'm not from NYC, so maybe this is obvious, but why can you not get from Staten Island to Manhattan in 40mins? Is there really not bridge/tunnel that can get you there?
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#20Nice first pass, but its clearly calculating these as the pigeon flies and not taking the various stitched together street grids into account. You should get diamond and square shapes, not circles, for the most part. I'm working on a redesigned subway map / nomenclature an indicators of walking time to nearest stations is a subtle feature I want to build in. Something between a watershed like this and a vornoi diagra…
>I'm working on a
It's all bravado commenting on something you're working on in the comments of someone else's actual working site. Let's see the comments from a link to your site? Thought not