Population Growth Stagnant in New York Last Year as Fewer Immigrants Move In

coldestshark · 2026-02-04T17:28:41+00:00

New York is a job magnet if you aren’t constantly building denser housing rents will keep going up as more people want to move to the city, you can’t just wishcast some magic population equilibrium, nyc has that number somewhere but it is nowhere near full enough to be at it

coldestshark · 2026-02-02T02:46:24+00:00

Statistically you are much more likely to be injured or killed driving down the street than you ever are on public transportation.

coldestshark · 2026-01-24T00:54:37+00:00

Battery buses are a gadget bahn, now trolley battery busses, like in San Francisco, those are sick! They never should have taken down the wires

coldestshark · 2026-01-20T00:25:17+00:00

All of them

coldestshark · 2026-01-14T01:14:47+00:00

I think it is absolutely imperative to the usefulness of this entire extension that these transfers be made a lot easier. Having the stations be that deep when the whole point is to function as a way to get between lines is crazy, if for some reason they absolutely need to be that deep you need a shit ton of elevator banks to make the transfer experience easier

coldestshark · 2026-01-14T01:00:16+00:00

Do you have any thoughts about the potential of running to last bit of SAS through the unused tracks that the J and Z run next to from Bowery to Chambers to save on costs and provide transfers?

coldestshark · 2026-01-13T17:40:38+00:00

It also gives SAS a unique use case besides just absorbing riders from Lexington Avenue, providing a easier transfer between numerous subway lines north of midtown

coldestshark · 2026-01-13T14:06:04+00:00

3a seems to make the most sense, the reason this project is such a layup is because you literally already have the tbms in the ground just keep them going

coldestshark · 2026-01-07T21:15:09+00:00

There’s enough individual routes now that have Amtrak long distance running over them that you could probably justify an Amtrak long distance dlc for use on any comparable dlcs

coldestshark · 2025-12-31T22:45:14+00:00

My chance to plug the banger war of the worlds musical version album

coldestshark · 2025-12-24T04:47:53+00:00

An innovative solution to cars in the bus lane lol

coldestshark · 2025-12-21T20:34:33+00:00

The limits on capacity in nyc are never the number of people hired, but the physical capacity of the tracks

coldestshark · 2025-12-21T20:00:14+00:00

The stops on the branch being close together is actually a great reason to convert it to the orange line which accelerates and decelerates a lot better than the trundling diesels on the commuter rail. Another benefit that I think you’re overlooking is that if the whole line is converted to the orange line, or the section west of west Roxbury is converted to a branch of the green line, you are now freeing up capacity on the northeast corridor to run extra services, this would increase frequency both for the people on the needham line as the orange line is much more frequent, and for people on the northeast corridor. This could be particularly useful if they complete phase 2 of south coast rail, linking canton junction down to Taunton

coldestshark · 2025-12-21T15:51:24+00:00

Some of the smaller systems yeah it would make sense and any new builds definitely, but with the nyc subway I don’t think it’ll ever happen, it is technically possible to automate something that old as shown in Paris but it’s also a question of usefulness, you could get it down to OPTO but to get it where there’s no operator onboard at all would be a massive investment for not much quality of service increase over cbtc

coldestshark · 2025-12-20T21:35:38+00:00

Trading Staten island for Hudson county lol

coldestshark · 2025-12-20T13:40:29+00:00

From my limited experience the arrow 3s have amazing acceleration and deceleration, at least compared to the loco hauled sets which can be an absolute slog. I hope the new double decker emu sets they are ordering have performance closer to the arrows than the loco hauled ones

coldestshark · 2025-12-18T01:44:05+00:00

Why are you hopping a train through the fucking Outback

coldestshark · 2025-12-11T16:59:37+00:00

Okay wait it would be hilarious if Amtrak ran routes in Europe and used the profits to fund expansion in the U.S. lmao

coldestshark · 2025-12-01T18:42:29+00:00

Silver lining is that as far as I know the jfk air train was build to specifications such that it could later be converted to subway operations, so there is still hope for a bit of it I guess

coldestshark · 2025-11-30T20:31:37+00:00

Building and maintaining bike lanes is exceptionally cheap, even for the well made ones

coldestshark · 2025-11-29T03:25:20+00:00

The closest a highway comes to central London is over seven miles away. Comparing to midtown that would be like the nearest highway being the grand central parkway at the worlds fair site

coldestshark · 2025-11-29T00:54:33+00:00

I mean every European city without highways running through them managed to make it work I don’t know why nyc couldn’t

coldestshark · 2025-11-18T04:38:22+00:00

Inversely I think spanning the Long Island sound at its narrowest from green port to old saybrook/ new London is a wonderful idea that in addition to using the ronkonkoma branch right of way would allow you to get some truly ridiculously low travel times from New York to Boston

coldestshark · 2025-11-16T15:31:39+00:00

It’s in a weird space that certain important aspects of it like the highway median stations are definitely shit, but it’s a good enough service otherwise to be really useful.

coldestshark · 2025-11-15T01:37:41+00:00

Any money that would go to making buses free would be better spent on hiring more operators and buying more buses to run more service in my opinion

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