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A short post on short trains
The lesser urbanism hack
A while ago, I wrote about how elevated trains are the greatest urbanism cheat code, increasing the amount of track miles you can build per dollar (or per year) by a factor of 2-4. New Jersey has severely underrated potential to be the next great American city: It’s right across the Hudson from New York, so it could gradually bleed over people in jobs without having to build a new center in the middle of nowhere. And if Jersey can build a transportation system that’s both more convenient and nicer than New York’s, it can form an alternative, less dysfunctional hub for the northeast.
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