Transit Techies #35: Aaron Gordon, Surya Mattu, Marie Patino / Elif Ensari
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This will be Transit Techies NYC's final session of the year, and we have some amazing speakers to look forward to. Talks will start at 6:30pm, and we'll mingle over light bites and refreshments before and afterwards.
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Speakers
Aaron Gordon, Surya Mattu, and Marie Patino are reporters at Bloomberg News.
NJ Transit, Metro-North, and the LIRR are crucial arteries into Manhattan, moving hundreds of thousands of commuters into the Financial District and Midtown every day. As New York City faces a housing affordability crisis, the railroads are critical to the city’s future as the region seeks to build more densely near train stops. But one of those commuter railroads, NJ Transit, is significantly less reliable than the others. To understand the frequency of significant delays on New York commuter lines, Bloomberg tracked more than 190,000 trains this summer using live transit feeds, the kind used by navigation apps such as Google Maps. The results show NJ Transit riders had more issues than their New York and Connecticut counterparts. About one in every 18 NJ Transit trains was delayed by at least 15 minutes or canceled completely in May, June and July. For an average commuter, that meant a bad commute roughly every two weeks, versus once every three months or more on the more reliable lines to New York and Connecticut suburbs.
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Elif Ensari is a researcher at the Marron Institute of Urban Management, NYU.
Illegal parking poses significant challenges in urban environments, obstructing travel lanes, increasing gridlock, and blocking access to critical infrastructure. This study aims to examine how police respond to illegal parking complaints in New York City, offering a first-of-its-kind, systematic, large-scale analysis of law enforcement patterns, with significant policy implications. We used artificial intelligence and a network of publicly available camera feeds operated by the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) to monitor and file complaints and subsequently track and assess enforcement patterns.
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The event will be held at 370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY in Room 1201. We hope to see you there!