What is Normal the house I grew up in cost $30k?

Uh this doesn’t make any sense. Try to buy a piece of land and build a house yourself and see what it costs. It will probably be close to what houses are going for. To remodel a current cape cod to a colonial (add a level) costs over $250k that’s just to put a addition on the house.

BTW they aren’t making any more land

Also keeping RT 24 at three lanes to 287 would help it from being so slow from the Short Hills mall.

For the turnpike extension they only want to move the jam from the tollbooths to further down.

We do have on peak and off peak pricing right now which is congestion pricing. Except we aren’t sensitive to it. We will pay what ever it take to ride the road. Congestion pricing in NYC I believe will be the same traffic won’t improve. We need to build alternatives.

Yes but the NJTP is a toll road so traffic can be controlled by increasing tolls vs “freeways”

Except very few are moving that far south to commute to NYC or N-NJ.

BTW we are arguing over something we could never change if the NJTP want to do something they do it.

It was widened down to 6 because of the warehouses and it should be widened due to additional traffic. This is the opposite of induced demand. The demand is already there.

My damn eyes. Warehouses were built NOT houses. Com-on this is NJ nothing we do is normal to the rest of the country. We are building infill housing in the north and yes new developments other areas. We have more transit than most areas outside of NJ/NY/CT and people are moving closer to cities not further away.

Yes we have a major train line that runs much of it. Plus our region is unique to much of the country.

That would be true for most highways except the Turnpike which is used as a thru road as it was always designed.

I know about induced demand and the problems of many lanes causing traffic just by being too wide.

Not completely true.

Uh it's expensive here.

Roots in Summit and Morristown

Our local Y has two pools one is cool and the other pretty damn warm. (Yes I know we’re privileged). Guess which pool always has the seniors working out?

YMCA - JCC try looking for one of these.

I used to (20 yrs ago) commute from Lyndhurst to Cranford. It would take from 45 min to 1 h 15mins usually.

Scotch Plains.

Not if you work in 1 penn plaza.

Really?? I could show you homes in my town with good schools and a 45 minute train ride to NYC that are within that price range.

Most expansion has been put on hold until the. Tunnels get build also the bridges over the Hackensack and Passaic need to be replaced also.

I wouldn't think a hotel there would have an hourly rate.

True but they don't produce anything. Factory makes something from raw materials and or parts. Warehouse stores products made in a factory. Does Amazon have highly technical process yes but it is still a warehouse not a factory.

Not a factory. This is just a warehouse.