Lol come over to Union City, if a utility even breathes on a road, the entire block gets repaved within a month. Usually with 3 bright yellow speed bumps. Gotta love mayor stack

If you think it’s bad now wait until the supreme court has its way with NJ’s gun laws.

I wouldn’t suggest hanging around Newark Penn after modnight. They close the station and kick everyone outside. And the area is sketchy as fuck

You should probably be getting something in the mail the next few weeks. If you don't see anything call the municipal court in whichever city they caught you in.

Nothing because I don’t need my rent going up

The ironbound is probably 80% hispanic by now. Portuguese and Brazilians are a minority but when it comes to the bolsonaro people they’re a loud one.

Also in my experience the Portuguese-speaking demographic in Newark tends to be the more well-off, landlord/business owner type. Not the same group as the undocumented immigrants you’re thinking of

Please contact all your state reps, the governor, and NJ Transit. NJT taking over these routes is not a given. They are already in rough financial shape after the pandemic. We need to make this a political issue.

The town lobbied NJT to run less trains on weekends to avoid noise. Montclair can fuck off. If you don’t want public transit then you don’t get it.

Yes, it may be common in Japan and the UK. And these countries aren't really known for high quality bus service. Buses in London are good but these are run on a contract system, not similar to the situation that Decamp, Coach USA, etc have. And when you go out to other parts of Britain the quality drops off a lot.

I don't know anything about the other countries you mentioned. It's still a minority of countries. With high labor costs for bus drivers it is extremely difficult if not impossible to make bus service run profitably.

They also give coach USA free buses. It’s pretty dumb.

The concept of privately-operated bus lines in a first world country is a little bit ridiculous. The only reason they survive is with handouts from NJT like free leased buses. At worst you have companies like Academy bilking the state for millions by lying about the number of buses that they ran. If the state stopped treating these carriers with kid gloves they would’ve all been out of business decades ago.

NJ Transit seems to interpret NJSA 27:25-2d to mean that they can’t run buses on a line that a private company already “owns.”

In every relevant court case I’ve been able to find, NJ Transit has won over private operators. But to be fair they also avoid any competition with private operators in the first place. I think NJT is happy to use it as an excuse regardless of the legal validity.

With Decamp gone NJT is now finally allowed to run buses on the former Decamp routes. That would actually be a service improvement for the people who use those buses.

If you live in an area that had decamp service you should be writing to all your local reps and NJT now.

Parking tickets are treated as civil matters and there is not the same burden of proof as a crime, nor the right to remain silent. The prosecution does not need to prove you guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.” It’s up to you to defend yourself, if you want to bother doing that (almost never worth it).

Basically the court will treat it as your word vs the officer’s and in the absence of hard evidence the officer is going to win.

I can’t believe people use these roads and still won’t get EZPass. Luddites.

Sure, but why the austerity mindset around healthcare. By all measures the problem in America is not that people go to the doctor too much but too little, because they have no insurance, shitty insurance, or can’t get time off work. You complain about people taking insulin and blood pressure medication which literally cost pennies and require minimal medical oversight. You realize these people take these meds for a reason and not just for fun? Save a few cents denying someone medication, now they have a diabetic crisis or a heart attack and now require intensive long term care. It’s so short sighted.

Another reason seeing the doctor is so expensive is that the healthcare industry has purposely made medical school outrageously expensive, and artificially limited the number of med school/residency slots for physicians. It’s not just that people are too greedy and seeing the doctor too much. The industry has colluded to limit the number of doctors on purpose.

I’m pretty sure most common medications cost pennies to produce. It’s a total red herring. European countries have GDPs a fraction of ours yet it seems they can afford drugs and good quality healthcare just fine. And they spend so much less for it.

Honestly I would be more scared of co-ops with low fees. High-rise buildings need a lot of maintenance. You want the place to be well maintained instead of deferring maintenance where you might get hit with an huge assessment.

I hear mostly good things about the building, the concerns others brought up with co-ops are valid. On one hand it’s a very desirable area and building so I doubt you would have huge issues selling the place, but on the other I don’t know how much of a better deal it is than renting. Union City has relatively high taxes and a very strong rent control ordinance so in this town renters are mostly better off than buyers.

I dont live in the building but a few blocks away. It’s a nice area. I feel comfortable walking around at all hours and don’t really worry about crime.

I would love to see the accounting for this. There’s no way

I would do light rail to Hoboken then PATH to the city. You could try the buses as well. The problem with the buses isn’t the reliability but how crowded they get. Weehawken is the last town before NYC so by the time the buses get there sometimes there’s not even standing room left. Also the lines at the Port Authority on the way home are not the most fun way to end your workday. The train is lower stress.

The ferry is arguably the best way if it works for you. It’s just super expensive (like 3 or 4x more than the alternatives).

Depends on the part of town. In the Bluffs, you would be taking the boulevard east buses which are pretty terrible. They get super packed so you should expect to stand and have full buses pass you. In the heights you would be off the 123 route which is not too bad. I am less familiar with the waterfront & shades area, you would either be taking the 126 or the river road buses, they run very frequently and probably aren’t a bad option.

Are they gonna come up with all the recommendations just to never do them like newark?

In case anyone is excited about this bus study, they did one in Newark a while ago. It’s been over a year since they released the plan and there have been no updates whatsoever. At least the consultants got their paychecks

Sue in small claims. It’s the only option