Recent comments in /f/jerseycity

JCwhatimsayin t1_ja7pbdl wrote

Reply to How hard is it to find street parking in the Heights? by whale

Do you definitely need to keep your car? Take it with a grain of salt, but Jersey City just edged out Philly in a recent study of cities where it is easiest to live car free. Just search this sub for parking and Heights and you'll find anguished car owners frittering away hours of their lives looking for parking, dealing with permits, raging over tickets, and furious with their neighbors' parking behavior. If you can opt out, do it!

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Yin-Hei t1_ja7i3v6 wrote

Reply to comment by usom in RIP Teppen Hibabchi by usom

Damn, I liked their lunch bento boxes... But the place's been depressed lately. Many of the peeps here just cook at home.

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rtadoyle t1_ja7gztn wrote

Reply to comment by CylonRaider87 in Accessibility lifts at the grove street path are absurdly bad by FoamythePuppy

To be fair, they only had a weekend to build it, so they had to cut corners

/s

My theories are (and I have no qualifications for this)

  1. make it bad to deter able bodies folks from using it
  2. since it's literally underneath the street, there's no room above the elevator for extra mechanics (and maybe a similar concept for the bottom, where it'd be too deep? )

But yeah, it sucks.

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Miringanes t1_ja7fdpz wrote

Reply to comment by HeyDocK in Boiler broken by HeyDocK

If you’re talking about steam boilers for heat, that’s a great price. I’ve been quoted between 10 and 14k for a 150,000 Btu boiler

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theLRG t1_ja7blp5 wrote

Reply to PATH Real-Time Arrivals Android App by NocturnalBeaver

Nice! Love the clean look. Some suggestions:

  • I'd like to be able to rearrange the order so that I can put my local station at the top. EDIT: I guess having location on kinda does this. I just almost never give apps access to my location out of habit, but since this lovely app is open source I can actually confirm that it isn't doing anything with my data! Ty for putting the source up, really appreciate it.
  • The thing at the top that tells you how recently it was updated gives me anxiety - it's animation every second is distracting and feels like a countdown clock even though it is not. I'd appreciate if that was at the bottom of the page or if it only updated every 10s or so.
  • There is no need to label the Hoboken layover trains with HOB if they are past Hoboken on either end. For instance, it is confusing to see JSQ HOB in the Grove St box because that train is the same as JSQ: It is only going to Journal Square. Same as 33rd HOB at like Christopher St. I know the trains themselves don't do this, but it would be a little less confusing in the app.
  • it would be cool to have an indication of what left/right arrows mean. The path app uses "to NY" / "to NJ" to differentiate, which is helpful. This would also help with the last bullet.
  • it would be nice if I could tap on a train and see its scheduled list of stops. This is really missing from the official PATH app. Bonus points for showing current delay and then propagating that delay to each future stop as an estimate.
  • it would be nice if I could tap on the station name and see an expanded view with more trains.
  • Unfortunately, PATH is so often broken in some way that I always check the alerts before going anywhere. it might be necessary to put the Path alerts on this app so that users don't have to use two apps every time they travel.

Overall I like the simplicity, so I think it would be important to not have too much feature creep, but the ones above I think wouldn't be too much. Thank you for not having a "plan your trip" thing: everyone just does that and it adds a lot of friction for advanced users who just want to see timetables.

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Hulk_Runs t1_ja77x7g wrote

Reply to comment by HeyDocK in Boiler broken by HeyDocK

For boiler I’m not sure. 1200-1800 all-in I’d guess but I am winging it. I’ve done a few water heaters but not a boiler in a long time.

Your boiler quote is outrageous. Get 3 quotes.

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