My office is right off the West Side Highway. I could bike to work SO fast if this existed. 😔

It was there all those years when they were doing construction on the Pulaski

I like what they did in Berkeley, CA - a very similar situation (people cutting thru town to avoid freeway traffic) resulted in them putting up big planters at ends of streets, essentially creating dead-ends and snaked streets that deter people away from taking anything but the main drags. They also have a ton of speed bumps, but I don't know how feasible that is with snowplows here.

Always with her back turned to us though :/

Also inconvenient if you don't work a normal 9am-5pm shift.

You cant ban people but you can discourage them. IE, speed bumps, mandatory right turns, one-ways that go opposite ways etc. No problem for residents but basically kills cut-through, especially the ones sent by Waze

10000%

Time for some traffic problems in Jersey City

I heard there was a shooting around there recently too

I don't love it because, let's face it, enough people would be willing to pay the charge to clog our streets anyway. And they'll feel entitled to a shorter trip, at greater risk to anyone using a crosswalk.

But I can comfortably guarantee we'll never see it enacted. The NJTA likes our overflow capacity too much to let that happen. We're not a city to them, we're a customer queuing space.

Yes, your rare edge case would be collateral casualty. Many laws have them.

> There's also the oft-bandied idea of a surcharge for anyone who enters the tunnel within an hour of exiting 14 b or c. That won't happen, of course, because the Turnpike authority wants cars to filter through here. We're a traffic repository to them.

I don't love this because, hypothetically, I swing by and pick up a friend in JC, then I get hit with a surcharge? Or need to stop and get something at home and head in to work?

<3 looks like our Lady is rolling her eyes at all the noise-making helicopters

Glad it’s not DeGise.

Rent an apartment at 88 Regent, enjoy indoor basketball courts as an amenity. :)

I am in greenville and the JFK buses run on time 90% of the time. Even the westside ave buses are really good. Get your self a monthly pass and all these buses can be used.

You got it...but maybe it's not so obvious, I'm trying my hand with markers for the first time today <3

It has been imagined.

They have fried eggplant in the sub sandwiches, no egg though. if you are looking for a good pita sandwich, you might just need to go to tamam on the Upper east side or catch a plane from EWR. i couldn't find a good fluffy pita sandwiched in JC.

BTW if you are looking for fluffy pitas Yuki's in Hoboken has them, but they don't make sandwiches.

Don’t tell me it’s Statue of Liberty?

No one is proposing pulling a Leonia. The likeliest action would be traffic calming like lane-width reduction and sidewalk bulbouts on city-owned streets. Tunnel traffic will still filter through the city, but at lower speed, reducing the effectiveness of the shortcut.

It's the best we can do, and it's why the turnpike widening would be a disaster for us.

There's also the oft-bandied idea of a surcharge for anyone who enters the tunnel within an hour of exiting 14 b or c. That won't happen, of course, because the Turnpike authority wants cars to filter through here. We're a traffic repository to them.

"I suck at all instruments" is a good band name

Can't say favorite because my Girlfriend is my favorite...and my mom moved out of JC a couple of years ago XD

Might as well bring a sleeping bag and sleep in the office

Imagine if we had a second GW bridge instead of the holland tunnel