Hrekires

Hrekires t1_iw8081l wrote

Anyone saying anything other than Route 22 has never driven on it in the Mountainside <---> Hillside stretch where they have retail shops in the center of the highway, so you've got people entering and exiting traffic in both the left and right lanes (plus U-turns in the middle of the highway!! none of which have onramps to help cars get up to speed before merging). Then throw in massive flooding problems any time it rains.

When we were house shopping in Union County, my top deal breaker was being able to reach a train station and the Parkway without getting on 22.

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Hrekires t1_iukq8br wrote

Pretty much the first politician I've seen actually campaign for NJ-07, unlike Lance and Kean both hiding while relying on gerrymandering to win.

Unfortunately it'll work, Malinowski was thrown under the bus this cycle and the district redrawn to get Kean elected.

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Hrekires t1_iui9z9p wrote

I stayed at the Double Tree by Penn Station Newark once because of a blizzard and it wasn't half bad. There's also a hotel next to the PATH station in Harrison that looks decent from the outside at least.

Either would put you in easy driving/Uber distance of East Orange, and you can hop on the PATH train to get into the city.

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Hrekires t1_isydfw3 wrote

> Their decision to do so may very well have been because of increased foot traffic coming from public transit.

I mean... you might be right but I'm skeptical.

It's faster to take a bus from Weehawken to NYC than the light rail down to Hoboken and the PATH across (or the ferry downtown if you're rich) and I don't really see what the draw is for people in Bayonne, Jersey City, or Hoboken to shop in Weehawken or Edgewater.

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Hrekires t1_isxu4ef wrote

The ferry's been down there for decades and the light rail was finished in 2005... I feel like the only thing that changed was the Imperatore family and others deciding to develop the land?

The developers say it's safe but tbh you couldn't pay me to live on top of a chemical waste site with the amount of corruption that goes on in the redevelopment industry.

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