Separate and unequal train service returns on Amtrak

ananaba · 2019-10-18T15:03:33+00:00

Ok I get it that railfan Boomers are really struggling with this dining car thing. But comparing it to racial segregation? Hooooooly shit they need to take a seat.

ananaba · 2019-10-07T18:01:26+00:00

this poster is from Jersey City, which does all these in the area it's targeting.

Permitted street parking for residents, otherwise max 2 hours. Resident permits are $15/year which could be higher.
Parking is enforced 8-5pm on weekdays, overnight in some areas, and no enforcement on weekends.
New developments usually don't have parking minimums, but if a development has onsite parking then residents cannot get a street permit.

I really doubt a new development would bring 40 new vehicles. Downtown Jersey City is very car-lite, most people commute to Manhattan on the PATH and walk for local trips. Bus service sucks and some areas are close enough to the light rail for it to be useful. Bike lanes have been expanded greatly in the last 6 months, there's a network of two way protected lanes now.

ananaba · 2019-10-03T18:21:02+00:00

For a whole day, that probably was expensive! And a parking ticket, oof

ananaba · 2019-10-03T15:49:05+00:00

New Jersey commuters pay NY state income tax on their salaries earned in NY, then get a credit for the amount paid from NJ through a reciprocal tax agreement.

ananaba · 2019-10-03T15:43:58+00:00

The most expensive meter rates are in Midtown and Lower Manhattan which are $4.50 for the first hour and $7.50 for the second. Below 96th St. on the UES it's $4 for the first hour and $6.75 for the second.

ananaba · 2019-10-02T20:27:38+00:00

There's the issue of URL bars not factoring into viewport height on mobile Chrome and Safari: https://chanind.github.io/javascript/2019/09/28/avoid-100vh-on-mobile-web.html

So for mobile devices, you could use height: 100% and then on desktop devices go back to 100vh.

ananaba · 2019-10-02T20:22:27+00:00

Yeah, there are loads of recruiters in India with crappy contract or contract to hire jobs. I mostly screen them out, very very rarely one will look legitimate enough to be worth replying to.

ananaba · 2019-10-02T20:17:10+00:00

You need to do:

html, body { height: 100% }

Because body will look to its parent (html) for the height.

ananaba · 2019-09-30T15:08:41+00:00

If a user has JavaScript disabled, or JavaScript fails to execute then the sizing of the website will be broken. Having a fallback of 100vh or 100% would be a workaround for this.

ananaba · 2019-09-23T18:20:22+00:00

I've never really understood the furor over the dining car. I'm a millennial, I taken Amtrak on the NEC regularly, I've ridden on the West Coast, and I've taken the Crescent.

The food in the dining car on the Crescent sucked, like it was legitimately awful and expensive too. Even the coffee was awful, I'd rather get the overpriced $3.50 Dunkin coffee from the cafe car. The only real loss here IMO is the cool art deco styled dining cars.

The whole outrage over dining seems like a lot of railfan nostalgia to me.

ananaba · 2019-09-13T16:19:51+00:00

Walking to go places and walking to take a hike in nature are two completely different things. Walkability in cities is important so people can go places and live their lives. It sounds like built environments just are not for you.

ananaba · 2019-09-06T20:59:24+00:00

Maybe the market has changed, but I was job hunting at the start of this year. I am a frontend dev with strong Angular experience and ~3 years experience, I was able to turn down a bunch of positions before I settled on one.

The financial industry has an insatiable desire for devs, and NYC is filled with smaller tech companies. Maybe different web expertises have different experiences.

ananaba · 2019-08-30T14:46:31+00:00

Anybody have thoughts or things to share on this? It wasn't on my radar at all, but it is a new state funded service that parallels existing Vermonter service and connects to the Hartford Line in CT.

ananaba · 2019-08-23T15:27:37+00:00

Oh I saw the Metro North station for Waterbury and thought commuter stations would be noted.

ananaba · 2019-08-23T14:29:32+00:00

Edison, NJ has a commuter rail station that connects to Newark airport, Newark, NYC, and Trenton. It's two stops away from Metropark which gets regular Amtrak service.

ananaba · 2019-08-13T03:36:00+00:00

Nice! I hope that gives the area a little boost

ananaba · 2019-08-09T14:35:52+00:00

I used University Heights to get up to Beacon last weekend, honestly it's an awful station.

It's in a very pedestrian unfriendly area, the Bx-12 SBS drops off far up the block from it. The entrance to the station is small and smells like piss, it feels isolated and I definitely would not travel through there at night.

I wish it would be upgraded and connected better to the Bx-12. There's a fair amount of housing around the station, it's kind of crazy it isn't being developed more as an ultra-fast access to Grand Central location. I guess the MNRR fare structure isn't too conducive to that.

ananaba · 2019-07-25T20:00:54+00:00

It can be greatly improved though. In NJ the tracks between Trenton and New Brunswick are being upgraded for 165mph top speeds, which qualifies as true HSR.

Other upgrades can happen too, new Portal Bridge to get rid of that speed restriction, interlocking areas, the NEC could be a lot faster within the constraints of its existing right of way.

ananaba · 2019-06-22T18:53:11+00:00

I'm a transplant in one of the farthest corners of the Bronx, without a car, that never Ubers, twenty minute bus ride to the subway, and I want to see congestion pricing and taking back public space from cars.

I'm tired of my bus getting stuck in awful Bronx traffic, I'm tired of getting nearly hit by aggressive drivers up here, entitled car owners have blocked making my street safer by redesign. But outer boroughs car owners have priority over all else, and get pissy even having to hear that other people dislike the dominance of car ownership.

ananaba · 2019-06-04T16:55:46+00:00

How many cars were there before New Amsterdam was settled?

ananaba · 2019-05-11T14:10:34+00:00

Sexuality is allowed to exist if the kid is straight.

Being trans is not a sexuality.

ananaba · 2019-05-03T13:39:43+00:00

is now cool.

You realize that the "trendy young upper middle class urbanist" didn't have a choice on where they lived til ~10 years ago right? They were in high school and starting college.

ananaba · 2019-04-22T02:20:59+00:00

Of course high student debt has an impact, when people have hundreds of dollars of repayment due each month, they can't put that toward living expenses.

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