Eric Clapton filmed his Change the World video from inside the Hoboken Ferry Terminal (the closed part upstairs)

That’s my understanding as well.

Like most sausage making, it’s complicated, but the point of congestion pricing is to fund the MTA first and reduce traffic second. Less cars good. More butts on transit good. I think we all get that. The part that irritates is that the transit alternatives on the Jersey side, namely NJ Transit and Path and the various ferry concerns bear the brunt of it. Transit ain’t cheap and it operates at a big fiscal cost to taxpayers. Both those systems were bursting at the seams pre pandemic and this will be a new burden to bear. None of the congestion money goes to offset that burden and that’s a dick move that doesn’t get enough attention

Ferry from JC to 39th st via New York Waterway is the fastest, but it sure ain’t the cheapest

The stickel bridge can open under emergency circumstances. It’s just never needed. Coast Guard is reconsidering the access needs for the river which hopefully will allow a lot of changes on the river including the choke point stickel

They’re ridiculous and if one fell over it could be the bridge all by itself. It comes down to the fact that almost all the cost and effort is in the machinery, so is it worth it to hold a project up over 10’ of tower? Probably not. It’s like asking if you’re going through all the effort to buy a truck to drive to work 10 times a year, does 15 miles matter more than 10? Not really because all the cost is in buying the truck.

The Belleville turnpike bridge is much lower at about 15’ when closed and ducks under route 21, so it can’t be raised for a fixed conversion, so even for the lightest river traffic, it must lift. The Route 3 bridge up the river was raised and converted to a fixed bridge with double the clearance so river traffic can go under it. All these decisions cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. They are not made lightly and the Army Corps and Coast Guard are the real deciding factors, not the DOT

The executions and torture will continue until morale improves

And they all chill in the left lane!

First, diversity in New Jersey typically comes in two flavors; economic or ethnic. Rarely both. You may find people of different ethnic backgrounds in both those towns, but most of them ain’t hurting, financially.

Second, Montclair and South Orange are on different rail lines so you should check the train schedules to make it works for your own schedule. South Orange is only a few stops from the city or Hoboken. Montclair has (I think) 7 stops just in town and the ride can be quick or interminable, depending on the train you catch. If you’re going to the financial district, and depending on your income level, I assume you’ll head for Hoboken over Penn Station and take either the expensive but very fast ferry, or the cheaper but longer/sardine packed PATH.

Sorry for the salty discourse. Just a grumpy old bastid.

I like how they show some nice old middle class looking dude in an well cared for but older home. They thought hard about that picture. Pics of the many multi million dollar homes I guess wouldn’t elicit the same response

The mall has public transit access, which quite frankly is exactly where things like food and heath services should be located.

I feel like this can’t be overstated enough and I think that if school boards owned this, the parents would pay. I know I would

It’s very good everywhere except the NEC and tunnel. Amtrak owns that territory and they’ve been falling apart and gumming everything up.

Trucks. Would rather drive with the pros than Karen in her $100k SUV dragging ass in the left lane while texting

I will add to this that the New Jersey counties and the state has a fantastic CASA organization that is very on top of kids that get caught in the system and keep them out of abusive situations. I highly recommend anyone to volunteer fir the organization

It is what it is.

Charger networks. Tesla wins as long as they have their massive charging network that they can share or keep to themselves at a whim. It’s all cute chipping at the edges of their share as long as they dominate the charging network

North of Boonton where the pavement changes from asphalt to concrete, it’s total death race territory. Wide open with limited places for speed traps. It’s incredibly common to see supercars in the late hours bomb the road at well over 100 mph. Terrible, but awesome. Also terrible.

Nj actually is a transit hub for NY.

Christie went nuts on a slash and burn binge through the state and he got strung up for running the government into the dirt. NJDOT and NJ Transit still haven’t fully recovered and they may never be what they once were. Lesson learned; if you want cheaper taxes, move.

Why am I paying the same to check out my own groceries? That pisses me off constantly

They had gates when originally manned.

Consider Warwick too

All stuff that’s on any new car. That screen in the middle of any new dashboard ain’t cheap.

And I will gladly compare a brand new anything (ok, maybe not a VW or a Land Rover) to a whipped $5k Corolla.