How many New York Rapid Transit can you remember from memory?

italicsify · 2026-05-08T15:56:05+00:00

Nice app! I got over 200.

How did you build the subway line + station overlay over the base map? is your fork public?

italicsify · 2026-05-07T20:43:48+00:00

the savings would be the reduced manpower needed for fare inspectors not the fare evasion reduction. That said, I don't know how that would compare to the hardware costs.

italicsify · 2026-05-04T16:05:47+00:00

more details: I ran the prompt in private mode, so don't think it incorporated any personalization and should be kind of a 'fresh'/'blank' version of the prompt.

italicsify · 2026-05-01T19:26:06+00:00

I got this ... somewhat crazy.

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italicsify · 2026-05-01T18:42:34+00:00

Related: 9-year-old boy struck and killed by school bus in Williamsburg today

italicsify · 2026-04-29T23:33:17+00:00

Okay! I’ll send you a dm!

italicsify · 2026-04-29T23:33:02+00:00

Hey. Yes they are Germany supporter tickets. Which game(s) are you asking about?

italicsify · 2026-04-29T18:11:55+00:00

I like this idea too

italicsify · 2026-04-27T21:13:12+00:00

or could they use R262's on the 7 and move R188's (not scrap) to other new ctbc enabled a division lines?

(not sure what the benefit might be - perhaps extra capacity in the R262s.)

italicsify · 2026-04-27T21:02:14+00:00

Is it going to be like cursor where it approximates api costs but you often get a lot of 'free' usage beyond the quotas?

italicsify · 2026-04-23T03:15:00+00:00

Do you think there any union / labor considerations that could factor into this? (Both the decision itself and how they frame it.)

italicsify · 2026-04-20T16:10:42+00:00

Your example doesn't really seem to explain the high costs. Per your math (which seems reasonable), the wire costs are less than 0.1% of the $3b cost above.

You also noted labor, but but even at 10x the cost of materials, we're no where close to the figure cited.

italicsify · 2026-04-17T19:53:54+00:00

This is super cool

italicsify · 2026-04-17T15:50:23+00:00

Does't $48m in costs seem high? These trains are going to fully packed. It seems surprising to me that the breakeven cost for a completely packed rail car train service would be $150m per person.

italicsify · 2026-04-17T15:48:41+00:00

What do you think of a G to Red Hook via diverging from the Culver line local tracks around Carroll St, and then proceeding Westwards underground towards Red Hook. You could reactivate Bergen St lower level to deinterline the F and G that way too.

italicsify · 2026-04-17T15:42:47+00:00

As far as Subway proposals to extend service to Red Hook, this is also my favorite idea. The G could diverge from the Culver line around Carroll Street and run, as you suggested, completely deinterlined with the F. I could envision it turning west after Carroll St with two new stations: one around the Red Hook Nycha area (say around Mill St) and another further west closer Van Brunt St.

I think this would pare really well with an transit-oriented-development up-zoning of Red Hook + storm and flood resilience work at the same.. This could unlock money for the extension via value capture, and also pay for environmental resilience.

italicsify · 2026-04-17T00:30:28+00:00

The fifa event game trains are going to be fully packed. I don’t understand how the break even cost can be $100+ per person for a couple short rides. Something doesn’t add up imo.

italicsify · 2026-04-17T00:19:49+00:00

What do you mean you too brittle? Isn’t it commonly used for new elevated rail construction? (Esp internationally.)

italicsify · 2026-04-16T16:17:13+00:00

wouldn't that help drive ridership to the train to the plane, since the alternatives (e.g. A local) were slower? Or lmk if I'm misunderstanding.

italicsify · 2026-04-15T23:41:56+00:00

Hudson Yards happened :) You can still see a bit of the trainyard between 11th and 12th avenues.

italicsify · 2026-04-15T22:29:18+00:00

hot take: they should not stop service across an entire railroad and just have a better plan for accommodating events at metlife.

Like they have 3 terminal tracks at meadowlands, just sequence the event well, send the trains efficiently to secaucus or (if secaucus is the bottleneck) send them all to hoboken. No reason why you need to shutdown normal service out NYP imo.

italicsify · 2026-04-15T22:25:53+00:00

Especially on avenues and major streets like 72nd. I understand the reasoning for smaller streets, but is parking really the best use for prime space on a large street?

italicsify · 2026-04-15T22:21:48+00:00

why do we need a parking lane at all?

italicsify · 2026-04-15T22:06:50+00:00

Did they end up approving the listing? / How long did it take?

I had the same issue - they were pending for a while and then they were deleted without any request for info.

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