This flooding issue could be fixed for good, for a third of the price of the pointless highway expansion, but that wouldn't line the right contractors pockets, so it won't happen.

And the amount of time it takes to find parking wasn't erratic? I guess if you have the money it's better but I'd save the toll, gas, parking payments for the slightly longer weekend headways.

Is barely any urban amenities than random corner stores and like 2 restaurants not a good enough reason?

The way even residents here are taking you seriously ☠️

They're out of real estate because of overrestrictive zoning

Motivating voter turnout is an entirely different problem from whether or not people want walkability. People don't decide to vote or not based on how much they like walkability.

Why jump to the assumption he wants to slash safety regulations instead of exclusionary zoning, considering all of the material released and every speech focuses on exclusionary zoning

Those aren't the type of regulations he means. The most he would go there (cause it's the most anyone proposes) is making elevators fit stretchers in slightly upright positions instead of fully extended, and allowing single loaded corridors, both like in Europe. Those changes are about as radical as he could possibly go on building codes and he will never go that far.

Politicians don't respond to the average person. In NYC zoning changes get brought to community board input. Working people sure as hell ain't making those meetings on weekday afternoons, even weekday evenings are too hard for people with kids. Politicians respond to whoever shows up there, which is retired rich people, and not the electorate. Also the electorate in most council elections is retired rich people anyways.

Same result in Orlando

Yep, paying off the construction of a road is one thing but roads take significant amounts of further investment to maintain. They take exponentially more when they're in tunnel form and any work on them requires dealing with a mess of other cables and tunnels. There's no fair way to do it without user fees.

Guess what, you gotta pay for maintaining the roads one way or another. If your tolls don't pay for it it's my taxes and I don't even own a car so fuck that.

I yearn for the world where saying "the city" in Jersey City refers to downtown and not NYC

On-time performance is way up on 119 to nearly 100% according to a recent article. Not like pre-July service

I always search the address before ordering from one of these to find the true business

It seems the use of gas/oil heaters is the biggest problem here

I was more thinking about Westchester County and non-NYC Long Island.

Source for the biggest culprit being skyscrapers?

> both nice apartment buildings and single family homes

Missing middle is...between these and those towns aren't new-building any of it

It could, just expand the missing middle zone.

Yes it will. 20% or more of LI is young people wanting a city life pushed out there cause city life is too expensive. Child free living is more popular than ever. Make city rent cheaper by building more units and they move here and some likely ditch their cars in the process, making traffic better. If they're child free, they contribute to taxes but not education spending = better services.

Presumably it takes much less energy to heat from a 65F outdoor environment than a 30F one.

AC is cheaper than heating

FWIW rents at the Beacon have gone down even after the property tax increase became known. Though they were way overpriced over the summer, at one point the cheapest unit was just over 2k, now it's more like just over 1500.

NY suburbs are not exactly a mecca of municipal efficiency. NYC itself has way more services provided for the taxes