James Sinclair

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The Ultrarich Are Spending a Fortune to Live in Extreme Privacy In Miami and elsewhere, the wealthy are moving in increasingly private spheres, shelling out big money to bypass the indignities of public life.

Growing up in Latin America...

This was the problem 20+ years ago. Residential compounds. Bulletproof cars. Bribes ensuring they never stand in line.

Sad to see the US just following along.

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Aren't foreign student applications down bigly?

The biggest issue is that Newark has higher weekdays ridership and just slightly lower weekend ridership than Hoboken, but they act like Hoboken has 3x as much with how they schedule.

As I noted earlier, thats the same design as PATCO

Basic light pollution diagram showing four different streetlight set ups ranging from more light pollution on the left to less light pollution on the right. The most pollution option, labelled "very bad" is a street lamp with a round uncovered bulb on top, making a sphere of light in the air. The next option, labelled "bad" has a tiny cap on top, that limits the upward pollution a bit. The "better" option is mostly uncovered on top, limiting pollution above the streetlight. The final option, labelled "best" has a full shroud overtop, limiting the light to only below the streetlight, where it is needed for pedestrians and vehicles.

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

Oh no my $10 October playoff tickets

Casual racism tbh

The video is temporarily missing so I cant pull the screenshot, but they had a slide about new fare gates. Looked like the PATCO ones.

Here's the actual PATH improvement phase in timing

Wait the March one is just saying "the extra stop at exchange place which cut service in half will end in March"

That was a bullet on a seperate slide, yes. Unclear how it fits in with "path forward is done"

I'm down for a world cup conspiracy theory

Im confused with what youre asking.

PATH has always been 24/7, and still is.

Previously ran 4 lines 7 days a week, with the 2 combined lines only overnight.

25 yrs ago, the 2 combined lines began to run all weekend, regardless of demand.

Theyre finally restoring 4 line service 7 days a week

Meanwhile, on X

It does in that there have been 25 years of cuts. Weekends. Middays. Nights. All running less now than in 2000.

This is the first time they've proposed to expand off-peak service since the cuts began.

Ive lost the screenshot, but last December, PATH ridership data showed that more people were entering the WTC station at around 6pm on Saturday than the absolute max capacity of the trains.

Something like 3,300 entries but running just 3 trains that have a crushload combined capacity of 3,000.

The 4 lines never operated 24/7, they still ran reduced service at night. The issue is that 25 years ago they cut ALL 4 line weekend service and added the forced Hoboken layover on the 33rd line and forced transfers for WTC.

More recently, the issue has been the most cursed map in transit history:

Yes, source is
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Its right on the screenshot!

"For the first time in 25 years"

Having Friday service be identical to Tuesday service never made sense, especially post COVID. Running just 2 trains out of WTC after 11pm on Fridays is insane. Thats something that should have been fixed ages ago.

I think its more of a union thing, where weekdays/weekends are defined

Eh, 25 years is not short term!

How do you go back without one

Please sit down before looking at this screenshot.

Better things might be possible!

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What steps has njt taken to increase ridership?

The MBTA launched an unlimited weekend pass for $10 to increase ridership and make money off empty seats.

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Meanwhile, NJT eliminated the flex pass last year and the off peak tickets a decade ago.

The fare system is packed with historic social injustices. Rail pax paying $71 a month get access to every local bus in the state, from Cape May to NYC. But a bus pax that pays $400 a month doesn't get to use it on any train for even one stop.

Why is goal to maximize revenue instead of maximize ridership? What about mode shift? Are the state climate goals something njt doesn't care about?

"maximize revenue" could mean having a "1st class" car that charges 3x fares but carries half the ppl. But that's not the purpose of PUBLIC transit.

There's also the pesky issue of njt spending hundreds of millions on new fare equipment while spending zero minutes thinking about global best practices like tap in and out.

Like congrats now you have QR codes that half the conductors don't scan.