Stranger in a Strange Land

Is there recent news about more property tax increases in JC or NJ that I missed? Property taxes in JC are already at eye-watering levels.

Speaker Adams and DOT Are Eviscerating Daylighting Bill - Streetsblog New York City The two outer-borough Democrats are plotting to preserve a status quo that allows drivers to park at street corners, directly next to painted crosswalks, preventing pedestrians from seeing where cars ...

A refresher on Adrienne Adams' final accomplishment of the Eric Adams administration: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/21/s...

It's microwave food delivered lukewarm, right?

Play some Burial and NIN in the background while reading this and you've got a preview of the next Adam Curtis joint.

On-street parking and surface parking lots have gotta be in the top 3 worst urban land uses alongside gas stations.

NJ car crash deaths by year

Meanwhile

The Hyundai Palisade starts at 4420lbs and 260+ hp. The criminality occurred at the NHTSA.

Also I think the really salient question to ask is: for the love of God can we just get comprehensive reliable public transit and pedestrian and bike infrastructure in the very cities where these "AV"s are being deployed? Namely the densest and already the most congested cities in the country?!

This reminds me of the idea of looking at "all cause mortality" when evaluating the cost/benefit of a medical intervention instead of its narrowly defined, usually self-serving measures of "efficacy". I think the all cause analysis is the right one with "AVs".

Death by traffic engineer. Wtf is even going on at this intersection. There's matchstick-thin "bike lanes" here too.

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* Environmental Station Alpha (more like 8-10h)

A Zillow search for 3br+ homes

This is aggression ... by entrenched landowners. (Filter: 3br+ homes. We are a family of 4 and we want to stay in JC.)

Vibe reading

Sold my PS5 and connected my PC to the TV for this very reason. $80/yr for PS Plus for the lamest game selection. I got a digital edition so I couldn't buy used games and PS games are always a ripoff. Currently playing RE4R ($15) and Control (free) at 4K 60fps+.

As much as drivers push back on any attempt to make streets safer and to share even a tiny sliver of public resources with other transportation modes--when they're actually driving it really seems like they'd rather be anywhere else but behind the wheel.

Something that should be pointed out every time stats like these are shared is how completely f***ed the streets in NYC would be if even a small percentage of these riders shifted to driving or Uber/Lyft. All the bridges and tunnels connected to Manhattan have a capacity of MAYBE 100K vehicles/hr.

Let's start petitioning Solomon! Would love to make the appeal based on data. I bet the city or DOT can already see from all the cameras deployed throughout the city exactly which cars are cutting through JC to the tunnel.

That was the premise for delaying and reducing congestion pricing the first time around and IIRC all the districts Hochul thought she was pandering to shifted significantly to the right.

I'll say this at every opportunity: that offramp should just be closed. Drivers can get off at 14th St to get to the tunnel. JC residents can get off at 14th St too.

What these discerning minds think they actually want

Vance urges saying "thank you"

Aggrieved Drivers: a meme pic in words

Sitting in traffic for an hour when my time is worth $200/hr: I sleep

Paying $11.25 to shave 30 mins off my commute: Real shit

It's poetic and fitting that the built environment of this entire country was created out of whole cloth by ... a car salesman. It's like a vascular system designed for smoking.

An underlying issue is that in most places in this godforsaken continent you need to drive in order to be independent. That's a policy failure too, but of a different kind.

We need to lower taxes on cigarettes. The hard-working smokers of NY state have it tough enough as it is, what with the smoking and all. End this war on tobacco!

Evergreen

Driving makes you focus on occasional seconds of perceived delay while you ignore how the entire trip is batshit inefficient and dangerous because you're surrounded by other maniac drivers.

The population of CO is 6M so half the state lives in the Denver metro.

This means Denver, a metro area of 3M people, is building a paltry 3680 homes per year. This is for a metro that grows 1-3%/yr. The article says there's a shortage of over *100K* homes in CO. Definitely remove parking minimums but this state is *cooked*.