Ironically with how expensive housing is on Long Island, they’re excluding their own kids. Not just the feared black families.

>In the last ten years they built a ton of apartments In white plains and it's still expensive as hell to live there.

What do you think housing costs are gonna be if nothing's built like wealthy Westchester residents seem to want?

>If people think they are going to build low income housing in a village with a household median income of 150k good luck with that. Not even the democrats in Scarsdale want this let alone the republicans

Wow, rich Democrats and Republicans supporting housing segregation by class? I'm shook.

Same!

There's research that shows that TOD leads to lower vehicle miles travelled. Which makes sense as walkable communities lead to less car usage needed. Congestion nevertheless could be an issue but at this point congestion is significantly lower of an issue than the housing crisis and can be addressed quicker by more bus service.

I would argue that both The City and Long Island need to effectively incentivize affordable development. Long Island is much, much worse than NYC at affordable housing; with Long Island having one of the lowest construction rates of any American suburb it's turning most of the island into luxury inventory.

Plus, Long Island has enough strip malls and parking lot for housing to be built without needing to tear down single family homes. Long Island residents are also significantly more well to do than the Harlem and Bed Stuy residents currently being displaced en mass.

Yeah, legalizing TOD in Long Island will at least start netting us new riders.

There are a bunch of Metro North and LIRR stations in towns that ban multifamily housing. As much as I would love only The City building housing, it's a waste of the commuter rail infrastructure for these towns to ban environmentally friendly transit oriented development and lifting restrictions would allow for more choice for would be homeowners and renters.

Yeah and I was wondering why were you asking.

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Grand Central to the triboro to the Harlem River drive to the GWB

Or you can take the Major Deegan to get back on 95.

Closing off all local ramps would hamper deliveries (like to the industrial park right next to the Cross Bronx).

Local ramps could be changed to truck only or the Cross Bronx could be made truck only and two lanes could be converted for BRT for the Q44.

The easiest way to do this would be to merge the B57 with the Q33 since the B57 would already be going to Jackson Heights. Then you get a one seat ride from Downtown Brooklyn to LGA.

Since the MTA is currently redesigning the Brooklyn network I'd recommend you post a comment on their Brooklyn bus redesign map since they're accepting comments now.

For bus operators to hit 45-55mph on bus lanes, they'd have to be grade separated like the Orange or Silver Line in LA. Which means for NY they'd have to be elevated. For some of the bus lines, would probably be better to convert them into els at that point.

In this post pandemic world with some people doing wfh or a hybrid schedule a big way to increase transit ridership is upzoning near both buses and subways. Especially neighborhoods like Greenwich Village that are well to do and have constructed little housing

The MTA is currently doing a bus redesign for all 5 boroughs.. Finished the Bronx redesign and currently working on Brooklyn and Queens. Time to make your voice heard.

Also the other cities in the US are much more likely to have higher crime rates than NYC.

Huh, I thought Jackson Heights was one of those open secrets since I've heard about the neighborhood from my transplant friends.

Yeah, funny how that works.

100% Trump will burn all the bridges with any Republican politician or donor that backs DeSantis.

Thank you. Appreciate it.

One option would be to extend the Bx41 SBS to LGA, convert 2 lanes on the Triboro to bus/HOV 3+ and convert two of the Grand Central frontage road lanes to bus only.

If we’re building new rail in the Bronx first priority should be along Fordham Rd and Pelham Pkwy since the Bx12 is one of The City’s busiest bus routes and the Bronx lacks crosstown subway lines.

Since you edited your comment but didn't reply to mine, I'll respond to your second part.

If you're genuinely wondering how you get psychiatrists to accept public healthcare, then it's improving wages and working conditions for psychiatrists who work at Health + Hospitals. Psychiatrists are already part of The City's "public healthcare" system through Health + Hospitals. And in the shorter term, it's expanding the number of openings for psychiatrists and therapists.

In any case, having nothing but criticisms helps discuss the issues with a plan, what helps even more, especially if you are a physician is providing your own solutions to the issue.

Didn’t say it was a panacea. You seem to repeatedly be making assumptions about my POV.

Why is this my problem? Lack of access to Mental health services is an international problem. Something I would think a doctor would recognize.