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You and DTJCview must both be a product of Jersey City public schools, because your reading comprehension skills are not every good. Yes, there are facts. But drawing conclusions when you totally misread the facts or don't understand the data is even worse than having an uninformed opinion.
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Median salary in Jersey City: $52,623 Average salary at Goldman Sachs -- a business in Jersey City -- is $135,000... per quarter. Median salary at a big law firm is down from its high, but its still $145,000 a year. You don't need to know how to do common core math to understand that law and finance pay more than being a teacher, which is why talented people end up not teaching. http://www.nalp.org/2012_associate_salaries http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... achers_median_salary.html http://www.businessweek.com/articles/ ... y-for-3-months-is-135-594
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Except that the market is saying the only people who want jobs as teachers are mediocre while competent people are going into the private sector. So the shortened work year, pension and healthcare apparently isn't as attractive as you are claiming.
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Schools were historically one of the greatest employee abusers. Corruption dictating hiring and firing, particularly political corruption. Older teachers who tended to be paid more were often fired simply because they were paid more. Long story short, teachers unionized for same reason many other workers unionized: abusive employers. Or out another way: tough shit, the workers are unionized, deal with it. Unions protecting bad teachers doesn't negate the fact that the people most qualified to be teachers can earn many times more money working in professional careers.
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If you aren't happy with teacher performance, paying less is not going to help. That's like going to McDonald's and being disappointed that the food isn't as good as a high end steak house. Its like saying, "I don't want to pay more than $5,000 for a car, but I want it to last for 100,000 miles, get great fuel efficiency, and need little repair work." Its like going skydiving and choosing your parachute based on which one costs the least amount of money. Its like ordering a PBR and then getting angry it tastes like water.
If you want better teachers, you need to pay them more. You want smarter teachers, you need to pay them more. You want better educated teachers, you ned to pay them more. Why would anyone with half a brain and masters degree come to work in a shitty government building, deal with the administrative bullshit, nasty parents, nasty students, work from 7 in the morning until 5 at night, and earn a fraction of what they could make in a professional career?
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Whole Foods in Newark is not the Whole Foods Jersey City needs, but it is apparently the Whole Foods you deserve.
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There really isn't any incentive in the world to make this acceptable to the MTA.
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Ultimately the difference between investing in the World Trade Center and the Pulaski skyway is that the World Trade Center will generate money for the Port Authority.
Real estate investments and transportation have long been a mutual beneficial method of generating money. The federal government incentivized building a national rail network by offering land grants for railroads. They built the system and then profited from the land either by developing it or selling once it was connected to the network. Trolly companies would buy up land and develop a network, profiting not from the transportation but the real estate development that gain value from transportation that loses money. The original WTC complex also generated passengers for the then near bankrupt Hudson Tubes that the Authority had become responsible for maintaining. That was during a time when nobody worried about crowding on the train. There are plenty of things to be critical of the Port Authority for, but developing the WTC and the underground mall is not one of them. These are capital investments that will pay dividends, and help fund the agency in the future. The whole point of the agency is to act as a regional economic investor, collecting profits that are reinvested in the region (rather than collected as shareholder profits as in a private corporation). The problem has been in recent years, that governors on both sides of the river, of both parties, have funneled money into projects that are not capital investments -- items like the Pulaski Skyway are big ones, but there are plenty of smaller things as well.
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The project is no longer shovel ready. The project would need to be redesigned as the Hudson Yards development has since rendered the previous plan impossible to execute as is.
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I hope you enjoy the next indefinite suspension of the PATH.
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Again, let me point out how while everyone on the west bank of the Hudson was losing their shit over the indefinite closure of the PATH train, there was no adverse effect in New York. Most people didn't even notice. You can desperately cling to this idea that New York should pay for the overruns or some greater portion than the allocation that came from the Port Authority until all the rail tunnels between the two states shut down and still, even then, nobody in New York City will give a shit.
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ARC is not shovel ready anymore. It was. It was funded. Christie cancelled.
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You are grossly over estimating how much Cuomo's constituents care about the PATH. Did New York City stop functioning because the PATH went down? Did most New Yorkers even notice? Does the average New York resident even know what the PATH is, or even that it exists? The PATH shutdown created a major crisis for Jersey City, Hoboken and NJTransit commuters who rely on the PATH, amounting to the disruption of thousands of New Jersey residents' lives. The disruption of the lives of a few dozen people who commute from New York to Hoboken is not something that appears on the radar of a governor. It probably doesn't even rate for the mayor of New York. The point is, as much as you want to point fingers at Cuomo, he doesn't give a shit. Nor do his constituents. If the PATH shut down indefinitely, life in New York City would go on uninterrupted. We know this because it has already happened after Sandy. Expecting Cuomo to care even a fraction as much as Christie should care is like expecting Santa Claus to deliver Easter eggs.
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Do you hear that sound?
That silence is New York not giving a shit that the PATH is suspended indefinitely. Meanwhile, in New Jersey, the world is coming to an end.
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Probably because the ARC tunnel, while not in the process of being dug, was at that point about ten years in the making. It began with Christie Todd Whitman (R) as governor. Donald DiFrancesco (R) also supported the tunnel. So McGreevey comes along and, this is assuming he even knew about the proposal to extend the PATH, has two choices. He can move along a project that has bipartisan support and and estimated completion date of about the time his new daughter graduates high school, or he can try his luck with some unsupported, seemingly insane proposal by a democrat from Brooklyn who can't deliver federal funding, will still require years of study, and isn't necessarily going to have the support of an antagonistic Republican party. McGreevey chose to continue a project that had the support of two sitting NJ senators, a retired NJ senator, two former Republican governors, two former Democratic governor's, and a cabinet member of the sitting Republican President, not the out of nowhere proposal from minor Congressman from Brooklyn. The ARC tunnel also matched McGreevey's broader strategy for New Jersey which included reigning in sprawl, encouraging transit oriented smart growth, and expanding transit facilities. A new tunnel would have connected Bergen County directly to Manhattan (and generated $18 billion in increased property value). Extending the PATH along the east side would be great for Jersey City, Hoboken and Newark. But McGreevey was the governor for the whole state, looking at priorities for the whole state, and, coming from central New Jersey, certainly focused on the middle portions of New Jersey rather than the gold coast. For Woodbridge, where he was mayor for two terms, ARC would mean more train service. For Middlesex County, it would mean a new train line connecting Monmouth and acted as a development catalyst for then closing Fort Monmouth. ARC also meant connecting western New Jersey along the Pennsylvania border with rail service. None of those new lines are possible without the ARC tunnel, and linking the PATH with the Lexington Ave line would not have helped any of these other places have better access to jobs in New York City.
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Bridgett M. Davis Reads Into the Go-Slow at WORD with Tayari Jones, a Jersey City resident and professor at Rutgers Newark.
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In case you haven't noticed, the north Jersey office vacancy rate is between 20% and 30%, with the higher vacancy rates farther from New York City. Midtown is under 10%. Manhattan is adding millions of square feet of office space. That means jobs. Job growth is in the city, not New Jersey. For a variety of reasons, corporations are moving to urban cores, not suburban office parks. Meanwhile, NJ office parks are closing, being sold off, or converted into alternative uses. Over the next decade, another 5 to 7 million square feet office space is going to become available in NYC. Over the same period, it will be much easier to get from the east into the urban core. The 7 train connection to the Hudson Yards opens next year. Two or three years after that the LIRR will connect to Grand Central. There is already talk of bringing Metro North to Penn Station along the Hudson River. All that means is the suburbs north and east of the job centers in Manhattan will be better connected with faster and easier links to all those high paying jobs. All of those people are NY State residents who don't give a #OOPS# about getting to Secaucus. Nobody wants to spend billions of dollars just to make easier to get to Medieval Times. Whether or not a tunnel is built, the jobs are coming to New York City.
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Why would New York pay for something that will primarily benefit New Jersey (and if there are casinos, hurt NYC casinos which already have subway access)? Also, thanks to Christie's cancelling ARC, bridgegate, and using money for the Pulaski, there's a good bet NY won't let funding from the Port Authority be used for such a large project that benefits NJ. There was a bipartisan plan that would have brought better access to North Jersey and Christie killed it. Live with it.
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The other exception to the free market is zoning. And historic preservation laws. And height limits. And floor area ratio limits. And tax policies to encourage specific construction. And exemptions granted for public good. And occasional use of eminent domain. But you know, other than that, FREE MARKET.
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The problem in Jersey City as is the problem in Hoboken is that parking permits are greatly undervalued. Market rate parking is between $150 to $300 a month depending on where you park. That street parking permits are 1% the cost of parking in a garage. That's the problem. Raise the cost of a street permit to $1,800 a year and more people will park in garages.
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The main problem with Bus Rapid Transit in the United States is that American elected officials see it as a service that is the cheap alternative to actually investing in infrastructure, meaning BRT in the United States is basically as useless as non-BRT systems.
A successful BRT system needs dedicated travel lanes, traffic signal control facilitating only green lights for buses, elevated platforms, pre-pay fare zones and continuous regular service (which in the NYC metro area would include 24hour service on par with PATH and MTA trains). Unfortunately, because American politicians are unduly influenced by the wealthy, BRT is treated as a low cost alternative to trams or heavy rail. Take for instance NJTransit's BRT system, the Go Bus in Newark. Instead of having pre-pay stations, riders "As you enter, pay your fare or show your pass to the driver," -- just like every other bus route. One improvement of the Go Bus is that they are "easily identified with special signage," an improvement over most other NJTransit stops that are poorly labeled. Still, without platforms, passengers load slowly, and buses still have to take extra time accommodating wheelchairs. Go Bus doesn't run on dedicated lanes or have control of traffic signals -- meaning the buses are stuck in traffic just like any other bus or private car. Basically, NJTransit's first BRT attempt is nothing more than a pretty paint job, but that's much cheaper than building a light rail line. NYC's BRT are somewhat better, but still a long way away from what they should be. Most Select Buses have dedicated bus lanes, but the city does a poor job of enforcement and often the lanes are used by cars for double parking or deliveries, meaning buses still end up stuck in traffic. Select Buses don't have traffic signal control -- prohibited by NY State law -- but at the time they services were introduced, officials have been working to change the laws allowing buses control. Its yet to happen. The Select Buses do have a pre-pay system, but the main problem with them is that they are not integrated with the subway, and monthly card holders must pay an extra fee to ride the Select Bus, meaning the city is treating the Select Buses as something special rather than part of the integrated system. The Select Buses are an improvement over NJTransit's Go Bus, but still not anything that should be taken seriously without significant improvement to the service. One of the most modern systems is actually in Bogot?, Columbia, as reported in the NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/world/americas/10degrees.html Building out a system like the one in Columbia would probably be a successful way of bringing transit to a lot of outer areas of the NYC-Metro region, including Jersey City, Union City, North Bergen and beyond. But New Jersey's elected officials will never be willing to commit to the investment necessary to make the system work and function correctly, and a botched roll out will only harm long term prospects for transit overall.
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Easily solution: vote to unionize.
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A lot of people who are currently in their child bearing years are narcissists who think the world revolves around them. I suspect most of the time pregnant women are on the train, nobody has actually noticed that they are pregnant. I would be more interested in knowing how many people have asked for a seat and then been denied.
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Its probably worth noting that any additional stations are at least a decade away given the long term planning on the Port Authority.
As to articulated trains, they will almost certainly need to be new equipment. Luckily the MTA is already investigating articulated trains. The new PA5 cars are basically modified R143 rolling stock used on the 4,5,6, so if the MTA develops new articulated vehicles, its possible the 6th generation Port Authority cars could be as well. One possibility to expand current capacity could be replacing seats on the trains with folding seats that lock closed at rush hour allowing more space. Again, the MTA has experimented with this, though I'm not sure what the result was. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/n ... ush-hour-article-1.314241 Long term, the PATH will need longer rush hour-hours. Part of the reluctant likely stems from how rail operators are scheduled. Typically, to service rush hours, two things happen. One, overnight crews finish at the end of rush hour, so they can't work longer because they are the end of their shift. Second, rush hour train crews work for a period in the morning and a period in the afternoon with time off at half-pay in between. Its likely that the current shut off times for rush hour service are based around minimizing overtime and not hiring extra crews. As far as the HBLR system, there is a straight portion on the track designed for a station. More than a decade ago, a developer was looking to build a high rise on the land and would have constructed the light rail station as part of the plan-- it would have gone through the tower's base. However, mostly do to opposition from Height's residents concerned about their views, the tower was not built. NJTransit is currently considering construction of a station there but probably needs more development around the site or might use it as a carrot to get approval for the redevelopment of the rail yard. (Thats a sticky issue because legally they don't need approval, since they are state land, but do want it politically. Hoboken's Zimmer, who is frightened of development, has done her best to stop it.) Anyway, long term planning has a station going in there near Jersey Ave. That doesn't really help get people across the river though.
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Remember the 9 train? That was skip-stop along the 1 that was discontinued when they realized how retarded an idea it is for a train on a single track to skip stations. Buses can skip stations because they are not confined to a track. Maybe you can get NJTransit to install a Marion bus station. The Port Authority had no interest in building a station there when Healy suggested it four years ago. They certainly don't have more interest in the idea now.
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