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Show HN: NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designer

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199 points HeavenFox | 2 comments | 07 Jul 25 14:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Hello HN!

As a long term NYC resident, I have read countless articles on ideas tweaking subway services, but always found them hard to follow without visual aid. So over the long weekend I decided to build one. It has all the basic features: trains would spawn at their origin, stop at stations, and slow down if it gets too close to another. You can also design custom routes by piecing tracks together.

Have fun, and let me know what you think!

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ars ◴[07 Jul 25 21:13 UTC] No.44494739[source]▶
I can't figure out how to add a route from Bay Ridge to Clinton in NJ. That's my wishlist subway - got to Newark Airport from Brooklyn without going through Manhattan.

Edit: Actually Clifton is in NY, and playing with Google maps there's ZERO public transport from Staten Island to NJ, except by going through Manhattan!

So my idea wouldn't help anyway, unless they extended that subway all the way over the Goethals Bridge.

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throwaway2037 ◴[08 Jul 25 01:14 UTC] No.44496084[source]▶

    > ZERO public transport from Staten Island to NJ
I only see three bridges off the island. Can you walk any of them? Hoboken light rail in Bayonne isn't so far.
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1. acjohnson55 ◴[08 Jul 25 01:34 UTC] No.44496176[source]▶
There are 4 bridges: Goethals, Outerbridge, Bayonne, and Verrazano. You can walk on Goethals and Bayonne. I was actually thinking a few weeks ago about walking from Elizabeth to Bayonne someday, just for the heck of it.
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2. throwaway2037 ◴[08 Jul 25 11:13 UTC] No.44498946[source]▶
I forgot about Verrazano! I was only thinking about routes to NJ.