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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 1m

Sounds like she was up for a fight anyway, that's good.

Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 7m

It would be very pleasing to do a line extension in New Jersey, and I think that @uckema.com believes there is potential demand for trains out there...I have to think that this is a particularly bleak time to be trying to complete an infrastructure project though.

Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 16m

It would probably be Amtrak's proposed new service from NYC to Scranton, although NJ Transit is currently working to restore rail track on the approach to the viaduct east of Andover. pnrra.org/passenger-se...

Passenger Service Update - PA Railroad

The Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority is the result of the merger of the Monroe County Railroad Authority & the Lackawanna County Railroad Authority.

pnrra.org

Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 20m

I haven't heard any news about progress with extending the line to Andover since last year, at which point it was anticipated that the project could be complete by "fall 2026". (that's now!) www.njherald.com/story/busine...

NJ Transit's Sussex County expansion is on track with upgrade to century-old tunnel

Work on a new liner for the Roseville Tunnel, another major step in the Lackawanna Cutoff project, is nearly complete, officials said.

www.njherald.com

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 25m

Saw the photo on Facebook and had to share. So pretty and seasonal!!

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 26m

Paulinkskill Viaduct in New Jersey. Part of the Lackawanna Cutoff. "When completed in 1910, it was the largest reinforced concrete structure in the world." Soon to reopened for trains.

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 33m

I can never forget that this man said he found it "exhausting" that Winona Ryder wanted to have sex all the time when they were together.

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 1h

Based on the reporting it sounds like the NJ gubernatorial debate tonight was a sh!tshow that will change nobody's mind. Just as well that almost nobody will have watched it!

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 1h

Lots of the WMATA Metrorail system was built after the 1970s. I wonder to what extent were those principles incorporated into the design of the later phases?

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 1h

12 mins seems optimistic at rush hour.

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 2h

omg, the actual press release!
"AB 1264 is the first law of its kind in the nation and builds on California’s long record of leading with children’s health and well-being at the forefront. While Washington debates how to ‘make America healthy again,’ they need not look any further than California."

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 2h

imho the whole "ultraprocessed food" freakout is very close to MAHA.

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 2h

That only gets you to Medical Center though. Further up than that, you are hosed.

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 2h

Oh come on, there are at least 2 or 3.

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 2h

It's not confounding if you assume that many of the Rs in Hamilton have already transitioned to Toms River and onto Florida.

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 2h

I've been out of DC for 13 years now but when I saw that service adjustment, my first thought was "RideOn Route 34".

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 2h

Hamilton Twp -> Toms River -> Florida

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 3h

I actually know the guy who used to be the lead organizer for the Mercer County GOP, and he told me that when they put up yard signs, they just said stuff like "Lower Taxes - Vote Column B", because they weren't sure if they would be able to get Republican candidates, and the GOP brand was so toxic.

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 3h

Here is what is actually happening while elected officials up and down the state are pontificating about e-bikes: www.nj.com/burlington/2...

School crossing guard is hit on the same N.J. street where another guard was killed last year

A crossing guard was struck and killed while walking students across the same street last December.

www.nj.com

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 3h

Outside chance he just flips to being a Republican himself.

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 3h

He's probably going to lose re-election and be replaced by a Republican. I don't know if that's better or worse.

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 3h

15? lol.
they should really be contesting 16 though. As recently as 2015 they had a lock on that district.

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 4h

Losing hope for humanity, if I ever had it...

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 4h

Was this Bill B's idea?

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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 5h

My god he is such a clown and an opportunist. Cranbury is an outrageous example of exclusionary zoning, to show up there for a photo op and rant against affordable housing is pretty disgusting.

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