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dualOWLS t1_izn7xop wrote

Did you know we have a Wikipedia page (albeit about Bergen county mostly). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boroughitis

I am for less municipalities and less balkanization. It makes zoning, transit, and urban planning worse and fractured. Look how long it took to get Citi bike in Hoboken/JC... for the bike lanes to even connect. The annexation can have negative consequences as well, like Toronto had after joining with the suburbs of the city but I think in the long term it's best.

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Hij802 OP t1_izn9zj9 wrote

Thing with Hudson County is that the entire county is pretty much medium-high density and won’t have any problems absorbing low density suburbs like other sprawl cities. It’s so well connected. Only Secaucus, Harrison, and Kearny are separated, but considering the PATH it’s not too bad.

We need reverse boroughitis

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dualOWLS t1_iznb87s wrote

Oh I absolutely agree! The old infrastructure that used to connect them all is still in place, well many of the old right of ways at least. One of them for instance is the Hudson-Essex Greenway which goes over to North Arlington and could feasibly connect right to the newark light rail from Jersey City, as could the HBLR to the ironbound. It is just a matter of political willpower to properly connect NJ to itself (like any good city!) by reinstating public transit within these places in order to move people around- and not just back and forth from NYC like these old lines used to.

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