This is pretty cool and well done, but perhaps a bit optimistic on the time estimates. Starting from my station, there's really no way to get to Brooklyn in 40 min. The timing seems off by 25% or so
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#32Love 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.
Yep, exactly my thought. Super valuable if scaled to be more accurate.
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#33I'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?
You can, if just barely, to/from both lower Manhattan and Midtown -- by ferry. However presumably those routes are not factored into this map.
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#34Love 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.
Just comparing to my own intuition, I'd guess it's using a train's departure from the origin station as the "start" time for a trip.
Yea, and ideal transfers (~zero wait). and perfect schedule (no real-time stats of drift).
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#35It seems to make the assumption that you’ll get any particular train instantly. Factor in expected wait time for each line and the local/express variants and the sheds will shrink substantially. it’ll also get confusing because the sheds will change as a function of time of day
It’s still interesting/useful, though. Once you require factoring in average train wait times and stuff like that the project is going to be way too complex to ever be achievable.
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#37I'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 bridge or tunnel. One was started back in the 1920s and parts of it still remain but it was never completed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island_Tunnel
It’s kind of a political hot potato few want to touch these days. A tunnel feels like a no brainier but a lot of NIMBY types in Staten Island don’t want a fast connection to the rest of the city as it would likely change the area dramatically.
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#38I'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?
~25min on the Ferry which runs every half hour / every 20 minutes during rush hour
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#39Nice 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…
No, it is clearly not as the pigeon flies. That is incorrect.
When I click on my local subway stop it seems entirely accurate, and the stations don't form any kind of circle at all. In fact I can't find any subway stop origin that seems to form anything even close to a circle.
Also, according to the "about" it's calculating from actual subway schedules.
And it has nothing to do with street grids. It's subway trips, not walking.
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#40This is pretty cool and well done, but perhaps a bit optimistic on the time estimates. Starting from my station, there's really no way to get to Brooklyn in 40 min. The timing seems off by 25% or so
Mine seems pretty accurate, but it seems to be counting from when my train departs, not when I get to the station.
Also it's not clear if it's counting waiting time when transferring, which would make a big difference.