Subway Builder is released!

This new overlapping lines feature to Subway Builder is actually sick asf

Best part of it is I didn't need any new client-side code. Just server-side counter for how many unique license keys pinged the map tiles server in the last 10 minutes.

I thought the landing page deserved a live player count

0.9.0 is out! This is by far the biggest update yet and adds tons of new features and improvements to Subway Builder

git push --force -m "minor changes"

Amazing things are being built

With that said, if the transit map around the Hudson looked a little more like this New Jersey would look very different

The other political problem, the beneficiaries of these projects are disproportionately asian/latino (excluding Hoboken). With much lower voter turnout politicians have much less of a reason to appeal to them.

No-one in charge like this: - NY loses taxpayer money as people move to NJ - NJ politicians lose as voters outside Hoboken/JC see billions flowing to a project that doesn't benefit them - PATH's very existence is threatened - MTA pays to serve riders who don't pay NY taxes

There are so many good project ideas. Running the 6/1 trains to Newark/Hoboken, extending the 7 or L to Hoboken and Secaucus, a Bergen county subway, etc. Any of these on their own would see more ridership than almost every other American transit system. But these ideas will

North Jersey has the density for a comprehensive subway system like NYC but for political reasons it'll never happen (🧵)

Ideal workstation

Spending 0.01% of the budget to increase politician salaries and disincentive corruption is good, even if the optics suck.

Unpopular opinion: the NYC mayor should make more than an entry level employee in big law/tech. $260k is surprisingly low.

More data viz by @mrejfox coming in the next Subway Builder update

ETA talked to the NY Times about a bill on Gov Hochul's desk that would mandate two crew on every subway train—something not required by any other metro in the world. This bill threatens existing service, threatens frequency on the new IBX, and would leave NYC in the past 🧵:

college

Always making new data visualizations 📊

https://t.co/CJCjwenjI2

Tune into the @BaltimoreBanner Twitch livestream at 7:30 ET. We'll be playing Subway Builder with Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott!