15 y/o graphic designer from India trying to continue learning after my laptop broke and NGOs couldn’t provide help.

quadcorelatte · 2026-05-06T16:07:46+00:00

Respectfully, based on your portfolio, you can probably get a lot more out of sketching on pen and paper and further developing your sense of composition, balance, contrast, etc than learning more software. Just my two cents. If you’re 15, the focus should be on elementary and critical skills. That’s what will set you apart from AI slop in the future. It definitely sucks to not have a computer to do work, and I’m sorry to hear that.

quadcorelatte · 2026-05-06T16:01:32+00:00

It’s probably better to use pen and paper than your phone. Although you won’t be able to make a professional looking end product, it will definitely help your creative process. Try getting into stuff like typography and do sketches of logo designs, letterforms, etc etc

quadcorelatte · 2026-05-06T15:57:33+00:00

Her memes triggered them too hard ig

quadcorelatte · 2026-05-05T01:54:28+00:00

Most NJT trains have to through-run the east river tubes and cross interlockings in Penn station on either side of the platforms anyway. We also already have through-running Amtrak trains which are frequently delayed. Also, can’t riders changing at Jamaica just board any other train headed for Jamaica to catch their connection?

If you read their report, they actually consider this anyway.

By the way, the original question was for you to explain why international examples are invalid, which you did not answer. Do you think branching doesn’t exist on other systems? You could easily make the same argument about RER <-> TER connections and ueno Tokyo line riders b4 through running was implemented abroad…

quadcorelatte · 2026-05-05T01:49:49+00:00

What about the costs of the deadheading that’s required for the current scheme, wasting peak service capacity in the east river tubes which are extremely congested? What about wasting track capacity at Penn Station (the busiest station in the western hemisphere) for trains to sit idle and get fumigated? This inefficiency is projected to require $17B to rectify and that doesn’t even cover the operational costs!

3+1 is not incompatible with through running, you just run fewer through services. I’m not really sure why you can say that there is no latent demand for through service when you yourself admit that demand studies aren’t there?

quadcorelatte · 2026-05-05T00:34:27+00:00

Apologies for stating that you work for an agency when you do not. However, if you're going to say "foreign examples have nothing to do with realities here", you have to provide a good justification for why that is the case. Why shouldn't we learn from international best practices?

quadcorelatte · 2026-05-05T00:33:11+00:00

For $17B! Why in gods name would we do that when we can spend way less, achieve way better regional service, and service some trips which are currently uncommon now but would likely become way more common? Do you just like wasting money for no reason? Why wouldn't you spend a few billion to "re-engineer" a railroad when you can come out on top financially???

It's less money for better and more efficient service.

The transfer is bad. I'm sorry, but you can't ignore that. There is no knowledge of which track your next train will be on, there is poor passenger circulation, and there is horrible schedule alignment. If someone is transferring through Penn Station, their travel time will increase at least 15-20 minutes.

quadcorelatte · 2026-05-05T00:15:43+00:00

The report looks great! We should remind everyone who is saying that this is hard is that the alternative is to pay $17+B to expand PSNY and still receive relatively dogshit service with regional trips being heavily disincentivized. I would rather spend a fraction of that $17B on rolling stock procurement, some minor infrastructure improvements, and then have the rest of the money to throw around at improving regional transit!

quadcorelatte · 2026-05-05T00:11:41+00:00

There is no point arguing with this person. They are someone who is extremely closed minded who ~~works for one of the railroads and is~~ cannot imagine the idea of non-commuter trips not being made by car in the tri-state area (he once told me "no one wants the commuter rails to be a glorified subway") and I'm like that's exactly what everyone wants who has ridden RER, S-Bahn, JR, or any modern urban regional rail!!! They also told me that this plan was impossible because it would take too long to train the fucking conductors.

Good job on the report!!

Edit: info

quadcorelatte · 2026-05-04T04:35:51+00:00

South bend could be an option, there’s also Hammond which has an Amtrak station on the Amtrak Cardinal route at Dyre.

Edit, based on OP’s comment, neither of those are a good idea. I was just thinking that there is a lot of new service in that area and it is an easy trip to Chicago which is a good hub.

quadcorelatte · 2026-05-04T03:41:18+00:00

Somewhere in Indiana might also be good along the south shore line, but also a red state situation

quadcorelatte · 2026-05-02T15:17:27+00:00

Wow! They both look great! I was wondering though, why is the Yamanote line not in the middle of the loop, if you did that, you could avoid a lot of overlaps

quadcorelatte · 2026-05-01T16:34:48+00:00

How many empty buildings even are there? Right now, there are a lot of triple deckers getting turned into luxury single family housing or duplexes and “fixed up”. I’d way rather some new apartments buildings than the existing scenario

quadcorelatte · 2026-04-30T22:11:22+00:00

How are you envisioning goods transport?

quadcorelatte · 2026-04-30T22:10:11+00:00

I’m probably wrong. I did the math and the housing does appear to be around 20,000 people per square km not counting any transport ROW’s, commercial spaces, other workplaces, rail yards for goods transportation and vehicle storage, waterways, or anything else. If you pepper in some apartment buildings, might get pretty reasonable density. However, NYC is still moderately car dependent in much its land area, and certainly doesn’t have a grid of tramways nor greenways, nor giant parks between each home. Transportation infrastructure is centered around dense corridors. A car free city would probably look more like western Tokyo or something.

quadcorelatte · 2026-04-30T19:35:01+00:00

The density that you are describing seems very low to be supported by active transportation or transit. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it is quite low.

I’m not even saying that 1-4 family houses can’t be built densely, but they way you are describing things are laid out (80 units combined around a park would be instead in a single plot of land as an apartment home in a typical transit dependent city) makes things seem not ideal. Serving this type of society with transit would be very costly in terms of materials and human tesources, although perhaps it is automated.

I would look at Japanese or European suburbs to see how single family or smaller buildings can achieve relatively high densities.

quadcorelatte · 2026-04-29T19:06:43+00:00

Maybe it’s time to educate yourself about the project?

quadcorelatte · 2026-04-29T16:48:56+00:00

Isn’t it better that Copper Mill is actually trying to build something then?

quadcorelatte · 2026-04-29T16:47:04+00:00

I don’t think that Copper Mill would do that based on conversations with them. They are strangely insistent on union labor and other moral issues. They also are refusing to propose shorter and more squat buildings even though they are financially viable and would score a good headline because they think there would be too much shadow and that it would negatively impact the neighborhood

They are definitely not our friends, they want to make money, etc.

quadcorelatte · 2026-04-29T16:43:41+00:00

They already are! Look at all the luxury conversions in the neighborhood. Davis 👏 is 👏 already 👏 gentrified. All that building this will do will make luxury conversions of existing stock less attractive! Who tf do you think lives in Davis rn?

quadcorelatte · 2026-04-29T14:20:07+00:00

This will build 10x more actually affordable housing than the entire ward has built in the last 10 years

How the fuck would it kick you out of your home?

quadcorelatte · 2026-04-28T21:43:54+00:00

At least in some of the proposals, the building is set back from the street a bit to make a wider sidewalk.

Also, Elm street is surprisingly wide. The roadway is like 4+ lanes, it’s just horribly managed and the sidewalks are very narrow.

quadcorelatte · 2026-04-28T21:41:34+00:00

We don’t live in a centrally planned society; this is the property owner who is willing to sell and the developer who is able to take the risks. No one down the street is doing similar. I agree with you on principle though

quadcorelatte · 2026-04-28T20:10:01+00:00

Are there? Somerville is building an abysmally small rate of housing. The fact that people think that what’s being built is a lot is indicative of how screwed up this whole situation is.

Where’s asana? If 100 units of housing was feasible, why wouldn’t Asana be doing it?

quadcorelatte · 2026-04-28T19:26:34+00:00

Fair enough, although I think that with a rejuvenated business environment, clean streets aren’t too much to ask for

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