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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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Post by tallowen »

markkanof wrote: post #108
euroderf wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trams do need dedicated lanes.

Not necessarily. Unless I am misunderstanding what specifically is being referred to as a tram. In Portland, Oregon for example, we have small trains that run at street level and share lanes with automobile traffic.

Portland's trams don't move anywhere close to 35mph as the OP mentioned. Portland's trams are quite capacity constrained due to needing to navigate the short blocks and many intersections of downtown Portland. Dedicated travel cooridors where these trams could move at closer to 35mph would allow trips _through_ downtown to become competitive which currently are often not ideal.

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

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Post by mgce »

acjohnson55 wrote: post #65
intexpress wrote: post #8

Jackson Heights is the winner here

The loser is 241st in the Bronx. Can't even get out of the Borough. Unless we're also considering Staten Island, which few do :)

Also the Rockaways, which are famous for being remote and poorly transit-served.

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

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Post by telesilla »

Gh0stRAT wrote: post #94
telesilla wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_Busway

This is fantastic. How do the locals experience a bus suddenly in the air? Does it feel safe?

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

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Post by standardUser »

I'm curious how the creator chose 40 minutes as the cutoff because I use the same cutoff. Less than 40 minutes is normal, ordinary, wouldn't think twice about it. More than 40 minutes is an outrage, preposterous, is this place even still in NY?

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

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Post by rayiner »

Tade0 wrote: post #11

I'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…

With subway lines costing a billion dollars a mile that just makes no sense.

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

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Post by ghaff »

tallowen wrote: post #111
markkanof wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not necessarily. Unless I am misunderstanding what specifically is being referred to as a tram. In Portland, Oregon for example, we have small trains that run at street level and share lanes with automobile traffic.

Portland's trams don't move anywhere close to 35mph as the OP mentioned. Portland's trams are quite capacity constrained due to needing to navigate the short blocks and many intersections of downtown Portland. Dedicated travel cooridors where these trams could move at closer to 35mph would allow trips _through_ downtown to become competitive which currently are often not ideal.

The streetcars in Portland OR are useful on some routes but they're pretty much painfully slow around downtown.
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