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Re: NYC Subwaysheds

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Post by afavour »

bootwoot wrote: post #55
afavour wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's also very across the harbor between Staten Island and Manhattan. Any bridge or tunnel would be multiple times longer than any other bridge or tunnel in the area (and correspondingly expensive).

The original plans were for a tunnel between SI and Brooklyn. Still probably the most realistic of any plan though it does lose the benefits of a direct connection to Manhattan.

Re: NYC Subwaysheds

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Post by yownie »

bovinegambler wrote: post #30

WNYC had a cool one a few years ago that also included time to get to/from stations but it seems their MapBox account isn't working anymore: https://project.wnyc.org/transit-time/ You can see what it looked like here https://gothamist.com/news/map-find-out-how-long-it-takes-to...

remember https://www.triptropnyc.com/ ?

I used this to find a place to stay when I worked on Canal, ended up finding Sunset Park neighborhood around 36th street station and loving the area.

Re: NYC Subwaysheds

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Post by yownie »

dylan604 wrote: post #16
dgrin91 wrote: post #3

What 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

you seem.....upset.

Re: NYC Subwaysheds

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Post by pimlottc »

It would be fantastic if Google Maps and the like could take this into account when searching instead of just naively relying on distance. 2 miles away along a well-developed transit corridor is much "closer" to me than 2 miles away in a direction with no bus or rail options.

Sometimes I'd be happy to go halfway across town if I can just take a single train there and it's close by the station. Especially if it involves picking up packages or heavily items.

Re: NYC Subwaysheds

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Post by neom »

wnolens wrote: post #14

Love 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.

L train estimates are generally a pipe dream on this site, a beautiful beautiful pipe dream.

Re: NYC Subwaysheds

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

chimeracoder wrote: post #60
shmerl wrote: post #57

What's with the weird design decision not to have more West to East lines in NYC? It can make travel very convoluted.

With the exception of three stops on the UWS that took about a century to build[0] and one additional stop on the 7, ~all of the subway stops were built 80+ years ago, via one of three independent private train companies. Those three companies eventually went bankrupt and were taken over by the city, and then later the state. So I wouldn't call anything a "design decision" in this case, insofar as it was never design…

I'd surmise that cut-and-cover construction was more politically feasible on the wider avenues where business disruption is minimized.

Re: NYC Subwaysheds

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Post by pimlottc »

I'd be interested to know what the "best" stop is based on this - which station has the largest accessible area?

Times Square [0] has the most connections, but Atlantic Av [1] has better coverage of Brooklyn. Hard to tell which is larger, though.

0: https://subwaysheds.com/stop/r16/times-sq-42-st

1: https://subwaysheds.com/stop/r31/atlantic-av-barclays-ctr

Re: NYC Subwaysheds

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Post by MisterTea »

chimeracoder wrote: post #59
parpfish wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

for sure, it's still useful, but i think it might be worth some sort of down-weighting for trains that run less frequently. for example, if the ratio of local:express trains is 5:1, the watershed should be more heavily influenced by what's accessible in 40 minutes via local. this is also in part due to the way people use the subway in NY -- nobody looks at a timetable and says "i'll head down to the station to catch…

> this is also in part due to the way people use the subway in NY -- nobody looks at a timetable and says "i'll head down to the station to catch the 6:37 express" like you would in some cities with reliable timetables/schedules. in NY, you just go to the station and wait and hope the train you want shows up next/soon. That was true 15 years ago, but it's less true today now that there's a multitude of apps (both the…

I've used the arrival time on Google maps and it seems accurate enough but the A train run so often it's not really an issue so I rarely if ever look. Plus I use mta.info for updates to check for delays.
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