newark ave from like 6th st downtown, up the hill to palisade ave at Dickinson HS

people are very hard on the bike infrastructure here (myself included) but there is a decent amount of it, provided you are willing to ride the street to get to it. there is now a PBL between my neighborhood (the heights) and downtown, which has been very welcome and useful, but i have to do a fair amount of street riding before and after it. i dont mind it, but yes you have to be hyper aware as there are some really absent-minded drivers around.

i use jersey cycles in the heights and have enjoyed my experience with them a handful of times for simple jobs/repairs.

forget county line, Craig has every mayor, state and congressional endorsements locked up from minute 0...do you expect Kearny or Union City to vote for a JC activist or the guy their mayor endorsed?

I've been following eleana for a little while and I'm excited to evangelize for her, but 'uphill' is almost understating the situation

Craig Guy is a nepotism baby!!

not sure, i just often see that address, 52 bowers st, come up on seamless

100%, the zone-based fare requires a solid few minutes of looking at the map, reading basically everything, and basically drawing your own conclusions. the exact opposite of what a transit system (especially in diverse places) should be: user friendly.

> Even domino's and pizza hut do it

fwiw that is likely solely done by the franchise owner, and corporate likely doesnt promote that tactic

i have not tried it, but am looking to try Twinz hot chicken in journal square. bonus it's halal if you want/need that!

yes there are like 5 or 6 brands coming from Dark Side of the Moo, which is at that address. good spot, my wife wont order it since finding a hair in a salad.

WORD, sorry if that sounded patronizing lol, there is a VERY wide range of understanding of the area when people get here.

yes as op said, apps like transit and Google maps are good for finding the actual bus stop intersection and routes that stop there. from there you can look it up on the njt mybus tool.

but you're not crazy, they simply leave out half the stops on "paper" schedules in the interest of UI friendliness, and it drives me nuts too; I used to just use the closest stop and estimate before the mybus tool which should have every stop.

NJ Transit app has live tracking for your bus stop; each stop has a identifying #. you can look up the stop and see which busses are coming at any given time.

however from your post stating that it 'only shows the JSQ trains' it seems you are looking at departures for the PATH train, which is an entirely different system from NJ Transit (and NYC Transit). the app for the PATH (ridePATH) only has PATH departure info, youll need to download NJ Transit for busses and non-PATH trains (including the light rail)...its actually a pretty good app for finding and buying tickets for busses!

homie, amy freeze is a new york original, she was on channel 7 for years before going to fox

bouquets and baskets (next to Grove St PATH, 1st and Jersey) delivered an 8.5 foot tree, hand-selected, to me in the heights for about $140, and the tree is SOOOO much better than the dry tree we got at St Nicholas last year (which was about $100 without delivery).

and he will groom another grifting asshole to spend 30 years waiting for this job while moving out to Monmouth County too. insane how we can't loosen this grip of corruption

yep the city is taking advantage of Pompidou's renovation to pull some money to revitalize pathside, then they will leave and we will still have a gallery space, ideally with a track record or success, near other galleries, to attract another temp exhibition, or a permanent tenant.

I'm very hopeful for what jsq could look like when the next world cup comes very close to hudson county in 3.5 years.

hell, you could even walk around the train car the entire time.

this is how you end up with shitty options. don't patronize bad businesses because 'they are trying.', you demand that business serve your community to a minimum standard.

you're missing the point. you have access to food an necessitites, but would you feel the same way if you were underage/disabled/unable to afford a car? you are restricted to the ~3 miles around you, which is often not more than a few strip malls, some of which are across very dangerous roads.

yes life is fine in nj provided you can keep up on loan/lease, insurance and gas, and don't mind driving for 40 minutes to get "local ramen" 15 minutes away. but it doesn't compare to (being wealthy enough to afford) life in Manhattan, where everything you need is available within a half-mile walk from your home, and everything in the world is a 6 mile bike ride away (and you don't have to take your life in your hands biking on highways to get around).

also food, museums, street life, access to daily necessities, public events....

maybe thats my problem, i still think he should listen to all his constituents, not just the ones who dont want bike lanes. personally i still have hope for summit ave, as there are very few parking spots connecting the heights to mcginley sq (there are NINE spaces between pershing field and newark ave).

but good luck! fair warning: you are likely not going to speak with him, but his chief of staff ... Pam is the one true Ward C councilperson

especially when they refuse to build any new rail regionally, and are hamstrung from building toward/into nyc for (reasonable) fear of 10 million middle men from one million agencies sticking their hands in the states pockets.

'damper' is an understatement; he is refusing to hear any support for the city's safety plan. I'm not sure if there is more support in and around ward c for or against the plan, but I can promise Richie doesn't know either.

so grateful for the redesign; it allows for county cops and their buddies to get some primo parking (photo from a few weeks back).

as ive very quickly learned, the city doesn't care if citizens are killed so long as the aggressor is in a car. the bottleneck at the construction site in the southbound lane really agitates drivers, and again, nobody cares if citizens are hurt or killed, so agitated drivers just make their own lane.

every time I pass the new courthouse under construction I get mad that they are building this huge front yard and sidewalk on central ave, with 0 provision to consider cyclists when there is ample room to show off how good grade-separated lanes can be. that is, if I'm not getting honked at or cut off by some construction worker from the suburbs taking his f150 to the courthouse jobsite (anecdotal, but a true story nonetheless).

make that two. I used it at least 3 times on Saturday (did not know if it was up yet on Friday, and I left for a vacation on sunday) to get to bread and salt + modcup. it wasn't much but shows that we can get around safely in the heights, if the right people just allowed us to.

tbh to me the answer is bike lanes on the sidewalk, next to the curbside parking, grade-separated from cars. extend the sidewalk 3 feet and built a 5 foot painted lane with a small curb..parking stays, cyclists can't cross the curb onto the sidewalk, and I don't have to get buzzed by SUVs on my bike all day.