One of the underrated aspects of this channel is how Miles's different travel companions bring different energies to their adventures so it never gets stale
The Lincoln Tunnel Helix is honestly an incredible engineering feat! The Helix was originally built in 1937 and it is an oval-shaped 270-degree loop to get vehicles from the top of the Palisades down to the toll plaza! The Palisades are about 180 feet (or around 55 m) high at Weehawken where the tunnel is! They originally thought about building a tunnel that would cut through the Palisades, but they realized it wasn't feasible and would disrupt the urban landscape above. To make enough room for the toll plaza area and merging lanes into the center or southern tube, the highway had to go about 2,000 feet (around 610 m) south of the tunnel portal and then make a quick U-turn back to the north to the toll plaza. So to be able to make room to do all that, it's quite the feat! The Lincoln Tunnel was first called the Midtown Hudson Tunnel, but to avoid confusion with the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, they renamed it to the Lincoln Tunnel because the Port Authority believed that the tunnel was "parallel to the importance of the George Washington Bridge". The Lincoln Tunnel was designed by Ole Singstad, who also designed the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and Queens-Midtown Tunnel. He advanced the use of the immersed tube method of underwater vehicular tunnel building, a system of constructing the tunnels with prefabricated sections. As mentioned, the Lincoln Tunnel has an inbound rush hour bus lane, and averages over 1,850 daily buses, which translates to over 463,000 buses and over 18.5 million passengers a year! The tunnel along with the rest of NJ Route 495 was once part of the Interstate Highway System, and was envisioned to connect to the LIE (which was also designated I-495 and remains part of the Interstate system), but a highway between the tunnel and the Queens-Midtown Tunnel was cancelled (thankfully), leaving them unconnected, thus the NJ side became NJ Route 495 in the 1980s. The George Washington Bridge carried a traffic volume of over 104 million vehicles in 2019 and is the world's only suspension bridge with 14 vehicular lanes! It was named such because it sits near the sites of Fort Washington (in NY) and Fort Lee, which were fortified positions used by George Washington and his forces as they attempted to deter the occupation of NYC in 1776 during the American Revolution. Unsuccessful, Washington evacuated Manhattan by ferrying his army between the two forts. It was the longest main bridge span in the world from its 1931 opening until the Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937. The GWB's GWB Bus Station was designed by Pier Luigi Nervi from the Italian province of Sondrio. He also designed the Norfolk Scope arena in Norfolk, VA, the PalaLottomatica and Palazzetto dello Sport arenas in Rome (which hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics basketball tournament), UNESCO Headquarters in Paris (as part of a collab with Bernard Zehrfuss from France and Marcel Breuer from Hungary), Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco (collab with Pietro Belluschi), and the Paul VI Audience Hall which is part of the Vatican complex. Also, when you passed by Port Imperial in Weehawken, at one point in time, a Formula 1 street circuit was actually considered there! It was announced in 2011, in 2012 Sebastian Vettel did a test run and described it as an American Monaco, but it was dropped in 2013 by F1 because they claimed the promoters were apparently in breach of contract
Neat! I didnt know the Lincoln Tunnel Toilet Bowl had an official name. The football field on the top of the tunnel has to be another engineering marvel cause who else would think to put one there
As someone else mentioned, at 4:15, that's Ailanthus altissima aka the tree of heaven. It is native to northeast and central China, and Taiwan. Unlike other members of the genus Ailanthus, it is found in temperate climates rather than the tropics. Because of that, it has a vigorous invasive species in Europe and North America. The first Western descriptions were made shortly after it was introduced to Europe by French Jesuit Pierre Nicholas d'Incarville, who had sent seeds from Beijing via Siberia to his botanist friend Bernard de Jussieu in the 1740s.In 1784, not long after Jussieu had sent seeds to England, some were forwarded to the US by Philly gardener William Hamilton. In both Europe and America, it quickly became a favored ornamental, especially as a street tree, and by 1840, it was available in most nurseries. The Tree of Heaven was brought to California by Chinese immigrants who came during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s. So yeah, it quickly escaped cultivation and invaded native ecosystems, and its invasiveness has been compounded by its role in the life cycle of the spotted lanternfly. Similarly, another Asian invasive plant species in the Americas is kudzu, which you saw in your MARTA video! Kudzu kills plants by smothering them under a blanket of leaves and by breaking branches or uprooting entire trees. It's known as the "Vine that ate the South", but it has made its way to the northern states like New York! Kudzu was introduced from Japan into the United States at the Japanese pavilion in the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. It remained a garden plant until the Dust Bowl era, when the vine was marketed as a way for farmers to stop soil erosion. The new Soil Conservation Service grew seventy million kudzu seedlings and paid $8 an acre to anyone who would sow the vine. Road and rail builders planted kudzu to stabilize steep slopes. Farmer and journalist Channing Cope, dubbed the "kudzu kid", popularized it in the South as a fix for eroded soils. He started the Kudzu Club of America, which, by 1943, had 20,000 members. The club aimed to plant 8 million acres across the South. Cultivation peaked at over one million acres by 1945. An invasive plant as fast-growing as kudzu outcompetes everything from native grasses to fully mature trees by shading them from the sunlight they need to photosynthesize. And climate change makes it worse when invasive species like kudzu are often more flexible and adaptable to change than many native plants and can outcompete them early in the growing season. Kudzu thrives in areas with mild winters and hot summers. Climate change makes it easier for creeping vine to spread, as winters in many areas of the US become milder. Climate change also leads to more regional drought, an opportunity for kudzu as kudzu is able to weather dry periods with its deep root systems and then take over where native plants could not survive.
"We're not gonna be needing these because it's free" the guy at the machine: 👁👄👁. It was a missed opportunity to say *"Woke up this mornin', got yourself a bus".* 😂. Sorry, had to, but Jeremy gets me! Before the domination of the PABT, Manhattan used to have different bus terminals scattered, like a Greyhound terminal right next to the original Penn Station! Greyhound wouldn't move to the PABT until 1963! The B&O Railroad had coach service aboard a ferry to Communipaw Terminal in Jersey City that ran from an elegant bus terminal with a revolving bus platform in the Chanin Building at 42nd and Lexington. Some of which were part of hotels like the Hotel Astor Bus Terminal on West 45th and the Dixie Bus Center on 42nd Street, located on the ground floor of the Dixie Hotel (later Hotel Carter), opened in 1930 and operated until 1959. Like the one in the Chanin Building, the one in the Hotel Carter also had a bus turntable! Buses would come down an entrance ramp onto the turntable, which was 35 feet in diameter and constructed out of 12 triangular steel wedges like a big pizza. An operator in a control booth would rotate the turntable until the bus could be driven into one of the 12 parking spaces. Departing buses would be backed out on to the turntable, which would revolve until the bus could be driven up the exit ramp. The 1940s-vintage buses were short allowing them to go up and over the sidewalk and then down the ramp. Ah yes, Soviet architecture...long live the New Jersey SSR! That public staircase you saw at 3:29 leads up to the site of the Weehawken Dueling Grounds! At the dueling grounds site, you can see the boulder that Hamilton rested upon after the duel. And yup, that's the Lincoln Tunnel ventilation shaft at 3:18! The ventilation shaft on the NY side on the other hand is NY Waterway's West 39th Street terminal! Besides Guttenberg, Union City, West New York, and Hoboken are among the top four most densely populated municipalities in the US! To put things into perspective for Guttenberg, over 12K people (in 2020 census) live in a land area that's just .19 square miles (total area of .24 square miles)! And I call it the Whittier, Alaska of NJ because of those Galaxy Towers! Each of the three octagonal towers are 44-stories (with two 16-story connecting structures as well) with over a thousand residential units (began as rentals but was converted to condos in 1980), retail, and office space! It takes its name from Johannes Gutenberg as it used to be populated by many Germans but now it's very Cuban. And that's not even the weirdest municipality in NJ! The weirdest one in NJ is South Hackensack....a township split into THREE SECTIONS! Basically after the "boroughitis" craze, several boroughs were formed in Bergen County, like within the limits of Lodi Township, and what became South Hackensack were the bits the boroughs formerly a part of Lodi Township didn't want. So it's divided into three noncontiguous sections. The northeastern, primary residential section is adjacent to Hackensack, Little Ferry and Teterboro. A small western portion, known as Garfield Park, lies in between Garfield, Lodi, Wallington and Wood-Ridge, while a southern sliver containing only industrial properties lies in the Meadowlands between Carlstadt, Moonachie, and Ridgefield. Teterboro is also weird, in that it's mostly an airport, industrial land, a Costco, a rail station with bad access, a Texas Roadhouse, a Walmart....and that's it.
I live in South Jersey and the buses here are largely empty any time of the day so I wondered where are the NJT buses crowded and you have answered that. Thanks!
Glad you had a better experience than me during the fare holiday! On that Sunday (looks like the same morning this was filmed, based on the rain) I hopped a train on the NEC line from Princeton Junction to NYC Penn Station... Unbeknownst to me, the 9:00 train had been canceled. I can't post photos in a UA-cam comment but the Princeton Junction platform was PACKED. We all got onto the train, but it was standing room only - by the third stop. I went and stood in the vestibule (it was so busy the conductors didn't care) and by Metuchen even the vestibule was so full I couldn't really move. By Edison I literally couldn't move my arms. It was rough. Nice to see people taking advantage of the free transit though
NEC got absolutely FUCKED by the fare holiday, it seemed like every day something else was breaking down. Its really only gotten worse as evidenced by just this past week with the whole tunnel-train fiasco
I avoid going to NYC like the plague for that week (US Open) but I did several short hops on the NEC and every one of them was terrible. Trains that should have been nearly empty were more packed than rush hour. It got to the point that I just stuck with local buses, less crowded and more reliable.
good job jeremy, you have converted miles into a palisades foamer miles, for more cool palisades foamering, the haverstraw-ossining ferry is really amazing (and scenic!)
Also if you take Metro North to Ossining, south of the station the rail ROW passes through Sing Sing State Correctional Facility, the origin of the saying "send them up the river" as a euphemism for going to prison.
That section on New Jersey along the Hudson is so utterly fascinating. Beyond the unusual urban fabric and building stock, the fact that almost every neighborhood is it’s own city. It’s only 10 miles between the GW Bridge and Jersey City, but its divided between 13+ municipalities. Guttenberg for example is only 4 blocks wide.
Did something similar to this once. Rode the Light Rail from 8th St. to Hoboken and then switched to the Tonelle Ave line to ride to the Port Imperial Ferry to get on a bus to Fort Lee. I didn't want to take multiple busses. I also didn't pay for the Light Rail but it wasn't a fare holiday. I just didn't pay. The little digital thing to show when the train is coming had been out at my stop for three months and I wasn't paying until they fixed it. LOL. Only paid for the busses.
Ok here’s a weird GWB thing. At the Bridge Plaza in Fort Lee, single drivers will sometimes pull up and people will hop into an absolute strangers car. The drivers are looking for 2 passengers so they qualify for the heavily-discounted car pool lane and the passengers get a free ride. It’s all understood and no words are exchanged. The cars drop off at the street-level entrance to the GWBBS. Transit symbiosis!
I used to do this with many many others, but it stopped when cashless tolling went into effect and the carpool discount was discontinued. The carpool discount was given when there were 3 or more people in the car, which the toll attendant had to verify when you went to the toll booth.
@MilesinTransit I know this is off topic. Just needed to tag you.. I have a greyhound hack NO1 uses.. when you are in app you can buy your ticket and when you chose your seats it takes you to a screen where you have a time limit. Those seats are UNAVAILABLE for purchase until you buy them, time little reached or you FULLY exit purchase. A bus driver yelled at me about.my bag in the seat next to me. We were boarded 30 moms early (belive it or not) so during this time I think I reserved the remaining of the seats making them not available for purchase and also when I checked on my tablet it said only 3 seats remaining and that was because I could only reserve so many seats that way. It also adjusted the price in greyhounds fave, thinking the tickets we going to be bought. Newdless to say I sat next to no1.
You went through my hometown of Edgewater where you saw the big voluminous buildings! To answer your question on the big patch of land that hasn't been built on yet.... it used to be the site of Hess Oil Tankers (Edgewater was a big industrial town prior to the 1990s), a company bought up the land to use for highrises but its been in litigation with the town, who wants to build a school and other town utility buildings, on the site. The 158 is a lifeline for me whenever I go back!
If you ever want a really amazing view of Manhattan, you can bike almost the same route along the water. It's like 90% mixed use path except part of that final hill which is terrifying riding with traffic.
Keep the wacky transit adventures coming! This is absolutely the sort of stunt I’d try if I lived in New York. Currently on a month-long trip in which I’m working towards visiting every terminal on the BC ferries network. Problem is, we have no transit to speak of so I need to bike for weeks on end to get to some of these spots. 4 days left until I reach Bella Coola, one of the more remote spots on the network. Come out west and ride some ferries sometime. Washington and BC both have pretty good networks.
4:45 This empty lot is wrapped up in some scandals because people up the hill are suing over "lost views" and the owners may have done some questionable things with certain politicians. This lot used to have two huge oil or gas tanks (my wife lived on the Manhattan side when we first met (she went to Teachers College), and I was wondering what this odd lot was from Riverside Park one day.)
I like that this video ended up kinda being an ode to the Palisades and their funky architecture and infrastructure. Especially love the shoutout to the Galaxy Towers - genuinely one of my favorite apartment buildings. They just look so fascinating. Same goes for thr Stonehenge tower up the road in North Bergen.
The red shelters at the Bridge station remind me of the Ottawa Transitway - which also has red shelters with a very similar design aesthetic with mostly glass panes and lots of curved roofs with a similar radius (but those are enclosed).
In the PABT mobility impaired passengers must contact a NJT dispatcher ahead of time and the bus will load at gate 304 which is the designated wheelchair pickup gate for the "chute" bues
"Is that corn?!" you just summoned the Midwest....and Nikita Khrushchev. That empty lot you mentioned that you thought was for floodplain reasons, basically that land is wrapped up in scandals connected to Bob Menendez. Basically the 615 River Road was once owned by Hess, Hess sold to the site to a private equity firm and a land reuse/development company, the two companies filed an application for development in 2015, but a guy named Fred Daibes who is responsible for Edgewater's development boom got Edgewater officials to block it. This ended Menendez's friendship with US attorney for NJ Philip Sellinger because Sellinger was a shareholder in a firm representing 615 River Road, Greenberg Traurig LLP, and Menendez pressed Sellinger to intervene on behalf of Daibes's other federal banking indictment. While testifying in the senator's corruption trial, Sellinger said that when Menendez was vetting him to be New Jersey's new US attorney in 2020, he told him the prosecution of Daibes was unfair. The case over the property was settled in 2019, and in 2021, the project for the site involves three 25-story towers. One of my favorite NJT routes out of the PABT is the 320 to Harmon Meadow Mill Creek, it exists for two reasons. Because it stops at the North Bergen Park & Ride (right next to NJT's Meadowlands bus garage) for a quick ride for commuters heading to NYC since it's right next to NJ Route 495, and for New Yorkers heading to Walmart in Harmon Meadow since Manhattan doesn't have one! The 85 also serves Harmon Meadow, going from Hoboken Terminal to there via 9th/Congress HBLR and Bergenline Ave, with it being extended to American Dream when the mall opened, making it even more of a shopper service! During rush hour, the 78 from Newark Penn serves Harmon Meadow too! Palisade is derived from pale, ultimately from the Latin word palus, meaning stake. The Lenape called the cliffs "rocks that look like rows of trees", a phrase that became "Weehawken"! They're basalt cliffs, the margin of a diabase sill, formed about 200 million years ago at the close of the Triassic period by the intrusion of molten magma upward into sandstone. When the trapped magma first intruded into the Triassic layers of sedimentary rock, it was so hot that contact metamorphism occurred, altering the rock around it. In the case of the Palisades, the magma cooled under the sedimentary layers, forming a sill made of igneous diabase about 40 miles long and 1,000 feet thick. During this time, crustal movements along the Ramapo fault tilted the entire region downward about 17 degrees to the west. Water erosion of the softer sandstone left behind the columnar structure of harder rock that exists today! The Palisades were the site of 18 documented duels and probably many unrecorded ones in the years 1798-1845. The most famous duel was of course the Burr-Hamilton duel which took place in Weehawken in July 1804! It also played a role during the American Revolution, as in the wake of the rebel's defeat in the Battle of Brooklyn and the Battle of Fort Washington, British commander Lord Cornwallis marched his men up the Palisades to try to ambush George Washington. Washington, stationed near Fort Lee, was alerted to the ambush by an unknown horseback patriot, and successfully fled west through Englewood and over the Hackensack River, avoiding capture in what is remembered as Washington's Retreat
Oh my GOSH - you and your pals crack me up! LOVED seeing you guys on the 158. I live just north of the Galaxy Towers (on JFK Blvd East - which also has amazing views). River Road is definitely scenic and quite diverse. The "foliage" you inquired about - there are stretches of River Road that were allegedly so contaminated from creosote (that area used to be a railway and shipyard,) that the government said that you couldn't develop on the land (even doing like a story of concrete to attempt to shield the contaminates). HOWEVER (as it always happens - OTHER areas along that gorgeous stretch (on River Road) "somehow" got developed despite having the same health and safety issues. Some weekends (since I gave up my car) I walk down the steep Hill under the Galaxy Towers and take the 158 to and from the Target in Edgewater Commons. If you guys want another, equally cool view, next time take the 165, 166, 168 or 128 from PABT (Gate 212) along Blvd East - it's SUPER local (and takes a while) and then get off on Blvd East & Palisade Avenue (right at the edge of Braddock Park) and then you can take the 159 north (to the same Bridge Plaza destination. Thanks for another super entertaining vlog!
I took advantage of the free NJT fare. I mainly road the railroads, the Hudson Bergan Light Rail, and a commuter bus. It was fun. I wish I was able to do more. Just didn't have the time.
I believe the empty lot you mentioned and wondered why it hasn't been developed is the superfund site in edgewater. Coal tar was manufactured there for years, and waste oil was also recycled there. Cleanup cost almost $100 Million. I remember walking there years ago and some guy on a bike passing a friend and I asked us to look it up in the paper, since we also were wondering what that spot's deal is.
I think you'd really enjoy a long transit trip on the west coast. It's possible to ride transit all the way up California from the Mexican border to the Oregon border, and beyond.
I'm getting flashbacks...after college I lived in Weehawken and had to take a freaking Port Authority NJT to and from work in the city every day. And they weren't running every 2 minutes at rush hour. My bus went up on the cliff though.
The first trip reminds me of Alexandria, Virginia along King Street/Rte 7 just off I-395. Almost identical with the tower apartments on the hilltops and small strip malls below.
A journey you can consider taking - Take the MNR to Tarrytown Take the HudsonLink across the bridge to Nyack Take the TOR Haverstraw Ferry Bus/97 to Haverstraw Take the Haverstraw-Ossining ferry to Ossining Take MNR/Bee-line back to Tarrytown and you would've completed the Rockland-Westchester loop! I've done it once. Think you'd enjoy it!
@@dhruvg550 you could probably circumnavigate the hudson highlands (start in pawling, DCPT E to MNR hudson line to newburgh beacon shuttle to shortline to port jervis line to hudson link to harlem line) but that may be hard schedule wise (esp west of the river)
I always love these silly trips that you deem “unnecessary” or weird but I love each and every one of them. Bucket list goals includes being one one of these weird trips.
hey miles, at 4:15 (if the foilage is before mitsua marketplace) there used to be a very large golf course/driving range where the foilage is, but i think it was demolished a few years ago!
On the subject of futile bus journeys, some of the weekend London Overground rail replacement buses, particularly South of the River, will have you reconsidering your entire life's course - they are super circuitous and go half the speed of regular buses but they're as good as free, you just make sure to show your Oyster on the way in, no tap required \m/
When someone in a wheelchair takes a bus at Port Authority they pull the bus up to the weird Coach USA part which has an elevator. Also, it’s even crazier taking the routes that use coach busses on those little roads in Hudson/Bergen counties.
There are also NJT buses that run nonstop between the Port Authority and the GWB bus terminals on their way to places north of the bridge! They used to run up Amsterdam Avenue but these days they generally run through NJ on the highways because it’s usually faster
So that explains why its official name is station and not terminal. Never thought about that until now, despite taking frequent umbrage when hearing GCT called Grand Central Station, which it is not (and despite a GCS actually existing-serving subway trains).
I took the nj train to Trenton and then transferred to,I think,409, from Trenton to Philadelphia. Then towards back home to NYC, I took the Atlantic City NJ train to Atlantic City from Philadelphia, then took the 319 bus back to NYC, NYC subway A train to Utica, then the NYC bus B46 bus going home. Next time when I go to Philadelphia, I want to ride one of the septa buses
Miles in Transit - enjoy your vids! Were you at the Crowded House show on Saturday at Ovation Hall in AC? I saw someone who looked a whole lot like you wearing a green 'T' hoodie. If so, did you like the concert?
That was me, yeah! Of all places to get spotted, wow! I did like it a lot, although I must confess that I'm a much bigger fan of Split Enz than of Crowded House, so my ulterior motive of getting some Enz covers was dashed for the most part!
You guys are doing trips I have done many times but I paid!🙁 There are plenty options for the River Road route. You can take the #158 or you can take the #159R That goes via river road and then turns towards Anderson Avenue. That will probably get you nearby Bridge Plaza in Fort Lee. The #156 and the#158 get you off of Lemoine Avenue closest to Bridge Plaza Otherwise, the best trip you want to go outside the city for even for a little bit. A huge contrast from the city to the suburbs back to the city
I REMEMBER WHEN THIS HAPPENED A FEW WEEKS AGO and the first person I thought of was Miles. I was thinking "Well this would make a good video". Well... he was already on top of it, as usual. Love this channel.
Today's Soundbites 3:51 Now that is a fun fact 5:16 JORDYCAKES 10:43 Miles Mocks Announcements 10:48 I'm trying credits now. TM Today's GEMs 3:41 Ding Nothing more annoying than when schedules are intentionally bunched
Hey Miles I got an idea for a trip. What if we did a trip, and hosted an in trip, or at station Bingo game, or other game with actual travel related prizes. Including "door prizes"? I'd cover my travel, and half of yours plus prizes, and equipment, while being behind the scene coordinator. You'd formulate which route would be ideal. One with a Folk like late night transfer maybe. Maybe even a Gambling Junkett. Amtrack or Bus
With Guttenberg being the densest town in the US by a four-block technicality, it's wild to think that major cities like Bogota and Dhaka have higher density averaged across a 300+ sq km area.
I never thought I'd say this but.... Miles, you are by far the least nerdy person in this video. I mean nerd as a compliment, by the way. People like to make fun of others for being passionately interested in niche topics. I think it ought to be celebrated.
This route has been used by Manhattanites during NY transit strikes. Also, during the early days of Google Transit it would come up as a favored alternative because NYCTA wasn't participating.
Sadly they were never able to get things up to the required standards, and then Formula E ran races in Brooklyn (around the docks near the cruise terminal, it's too small for the F1 cars, and there was really no paddock to speak of) for a few years. Now that Vegas has the 3rd American race, it's going to take something really big to lure F1 here (rumors are Miami might not last as long as they thought.)
@@joermnycthe current rumor is the next city in the US that F1 will try to have a street race is downtown Chicago. NASCAR has done it so it's feasible
4:15- in the foliage, you can see Ailanthus altissima, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". It is an invasive toxic weed from China that can grow to be over fifty feet tall. It is the only tree that can bust through concrete.
Wow, I took the 156R at gate 201 on Friday (the river variant running alongside the 158), but to Port Imperial. A nice walk along the waterfront to Palisades medical center is (first time in that area). After, I took the 158 back down, but they had a mix of the shorter 40-foot NABIs, so those were crowded. Had to wait for a long boi to show up. Very nice area, and I do want to do the whole trip up to GW Bridge some other day. Also got to see the Hamilton/Burr statues on Harbor Boulevard in Lincoln Harbor.
In NJ these vans typically service Bergenline avenue, routes from Downtown Paterson to GWB Bus Terminal via Route 4 / Broadway (also servicing GSP Mall). There are also a few routes that service the PABT that end in downtown Paterson as well. They directly compete with NJT and they are slightly cheaper. But they are cash only and there is really no set time table for them. The driver is typically on the phone with a dispatcher and other drivers which communicate with each other to judge demand at traffic stops and that determines how soon another bus is dispatched on the route.
So there are different dollar van services in the NYC metro, but on the NJ side, in Hudson County, these jitneys run on the main county throughfares of JFK Blvd, Boulevard East, Palisade Ave, and Bergenline Ave (they also run on Central Ave too but only rush hour). In Bergen County to the GWB, they'll also use River Road and Anderson Ave depending on the route. These jitneys have no schedules and will compete with NJT routes on these throughfares (they tend to cost more than NJT, but they're more frequent), serving the GWB, PABT, Journal Square, and Newport Centre mall depending on the jitney route. As the other reply mentioned, Paterson in Passaic County also has them, going between Paterson and the PABT or the GWB, with the GWB route serving Garden State Plaza in Paramus as well. I used to live in JC so I'm very familiar with the jitneys. Also Classy Whale did a great vid on them with Alex Davis if you wanna check it out. Look up "New York's Most Confusing Transit Mode"
I drive a 60' articulated bus 2x/wk. Most of the "arctics" owned by my agency are terrible on hills. Other than my terrible hill climbing ability, that route doesn't look like it'd be a technical challenge.
The miles and Jeremy dynamic is unmatched
Srsly I would literally go see them do a show at UCB
i concur
One of the underrated aspects of this channel is how Miles's different travel companions bring different energies to their adventures so it never gets stale
@@gene7887He's like The Doctor of transit content
I literally just saw Jeremy on Amtrak but was too shy to say hi lol
The Lincoln Tunnel Helix is honestly an incredible engineering feat! The Helix was originally built in 1937 and it is an oval-shaped 270-degree loop to get vehicles from the top of the Palisades down to the toll plaza! The Palisades are about 180 feet (or around 55 m) high at Weehawken where the tunnel is! They originally thought about building a tunnel that would cut through the Palisades, but they realized it wasn't feasible and would disrupt the urban landscape above. To make enough room for the toll plaza area and merging lanes into the center or southern tube, the highway had to go about 2,000 feet (around 610 m) south of the tunnel portal and then make a quick U-turn back to the north to the toll plaza. So to be able to make room to do all that, it's quite the feat! The Lincoln Tunnel was first called the Midtown Hudson Tunnel, but to avoid confusion with the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, they renamed it to the Lincoln Tunnel because the Port Authority believed that the tunnel was "parallel to the importance of the George Washington Bridge". The Lincoln Tunnel was designed by Ole Singstad, who also designed the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and Queens-Midtown Tunnel. He advanced the use of the immersed tube method of underwater vehicular tunnel building, a system of constructing the tunnels with prefabricated sections. As mentioned, the Lincoln Tunnel has an inbound rush hour bus lane, and averages over 1,850 daily buses, which translates to over 463,000 buses and over 18.5 million passengers a year! The tunnel along with the rest of NJ Route 495 was once part of the Interstate Highway System, and was envisioned to connect to the LIE (which was also designated I-495 and remains part of the Interstate system), but a highway between the tunnel and the Queens-Midtown Tunnel was cancelled (thankfully), leaving them unconnected, thus the NJ side became NJ Route 495 in the 1980s.
The George Washington Bridge carried a traffic volume of over 104 million vehicles in 2019 and is the world's only suspension bridge with 14 vehicular lanes! It was named such because it sits near the sites of Fort Washington (in NY) and Fort Lee, which were fortified positions used by George Washington and his forces as they attempted to deter the occupation of NYC in 1776 during the American Revolution. Unsuccessful, Washington evacuated Manhattan by ferrying his army between the two forts. It was the longest main bridge span in the world from its 1931 opening until the Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937. The GWB's GWB Bus Station was designed by Pier Luigi Nervi from the Italian province of Sondrio. He also designed the Norfolk Scope arena in Norfolk, VA, the PalaLottomatica and Palazzetto dello Sport arenas in Rome (which hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics basketball tournament), UNESCO Headquarters in Paris (as part of a collab with Bernard Zehrfuss from France and Marcel Breuer from Hungary), Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco (collab with Pietro Belluschi), and the Paul VI Audience Hall which is part of the Vatican complex. Also, when you passed by Port Imperial in Weehawken, at one point in time, a Formula 1 street circuit was actually considered there! It was announced in 2011, in 2012 Sebastian Vettel did a test run and described it as an American Monaco, but it was dropped in 2013 by F1 because they claimed the promoters were apparently in breach of contract
Damn that's really long 😮
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That grand prix would have been amazing
Neat! I didnt know the Lincoln Tunnel Toilet Bowl had an official name. The football field on the top of the tunnel has to be another engineering marvel cause who else would think to put one there
Thanks paragraph guy. Very informative.
As someone else mentioned, at 4:15, that's Ailanthus altissima aka the tree of heaven. It is native to northeast and central China, and Taiwan. Unlike other members of the genus Ailanthus, it is found in temperate climates rather than the tropics. Because of that, it has a vigorous invasive species in Europe and North America. The first Western descriptions were made shortly after it was introduced to Europe by French Jesuit Pierre Nicholas d'Incarville, who had sent seeds from Beijing via Siberia to his botanist friend Bernard de Jussieu in the 1740s.In 1784, not long after Jussieu had sent seeds to England, some were forwarded to the US by Philly gardener William Hamilton. In both Europe and America, it quickly became a favored ornamental, especially as a street tree, and by 1840, it was available in most nurseries. The Tree of Heaven was brought to California by Chinese immigrants who came during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s. So yeah, it quickly escaped cultivation and invaded native ecosystems, and its invasiveness has been compounded by its role in the life cycle of the spotted lanternfly.
Similarly, another Asian invasive plant species in the Americas is kudzu, which you saw in your MARTA video! Kudzu kills plants by smothering them under a blanket of leaves and by breaking branches or uprooting entire trees. It's known as the "Vine that ate the South", but it has made its way to the northern states like New York! Kudzu was introduced from Japan into the United States at the Japanese pavilion in the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. It remained a garden plant until the Dust Bowl era, when the vine was marketed as a way for farmers to stop soil erosion. The new Soil Conservation Service grew seventy million kudzu seedlings and paid $8 an acre to anyone who would sow the vine. Road and rail builders planted kudzu to stabilize steep slopes. Farmer and journalist Channing Cope, dubbed the "kudzu kid", popularized it in the South as a fix for eroded soils. He started the Kudzu Club of America, which, by 1943, had 20,000 members. The club aimed to plant 8 million acres across the South. Cultivation peaked at over one million acres by 1945. An invasive plant as fast-growing as kudzu outcompetes everything from native grasses to fully mature trees by shading them from the sunlight they need to photosynthesize. And climate change makes it worse when invasive species like kudzu are often more flexible and adaptable to change than many native plants and can outcompete them early in the growing season. Kudzu thrives in areas with mild winters and hot summers. Climate change makes it easier for creeping vine to spread, as winters in many areas of the US become milder. Climate change also leads to more regional drought, an opportunity for kudzu as kudzu is able to weather dry periods with its deep root systems and then take over where native plants could not survive.
0:03 _Governor Phil Murphy_
Talks about Gov. Murphy. Shows photo of NED. Favorite running joke. Pioneer of fare holidays.
Across the street at 4:31 is Mitsuwa Marketplace, it’s an awesome Japanese supermarket!
"We're not gonna be needing these because it's free" the guy at the machine: 👁👄👁. It was a missed opportunity to say *"Woke up this mornin', got yourself a bus".* 😂. Sorry, had to, but Jeremy gets me! Before the domination of the PABT, Manhattan used to have different bus terminals scattered, like a Greyhound terminal right next to the original Penn Station! Greyhound wouldn't move to the PABT until 1963! The B&O Railroad had coach service aboard a ferry to Communipaw Terminal in Jersey City that ran from an elegant bus terminal with a revolving bus platform in the Chanin Building at 42nd and Lexington. Some of which were part of hotels like the Hotel Astor Bus Terminal on West 45th and the Dixie Bus Center on 42nd Street, located on the ground floor of the Dixie Hotel (later Hotel Carter), opened in 1930 and operated until 1959. Like the one in the Chanin Building, the one in the Hotel Carter also had a bus turntable! Buses would come down an entrance ramp onto the turntable, which was 35 feet in diameter and constructed out of 12 triangular steel wedges like a big pizza. An operator in a control booth would rotate the turntable until the bus could be driven into one of the 12 parking spaces. Departing buses would be backed out on to the turntable, which would revolve until the bus could be driven up the exit ramp. The 1940s-vintage buses were short allowing them to go up and over the sidewalk and then down the ramp.
Ah yes, Soviet architecture...long live the New Jersey SSR! That public staircase you saw at 3:29 leads up to the site of the Weehawken Dueling Grounds! At the dueling grounds site, you can see the boulder that Hamilton rested upon after the duel. And yup, that's the Lincoln Tunnel ventilation shaft at 3:18! The ventilation shaft on the NY side on the other hand is NY Waterway's West 39th Street terminal! Besides Guttenberg, Union City, West New York, and Hoboken are among the top four most densely populated municipalities in the US! To put things into perspective for Guttenberg, over 12K people (in 2020 census) live in a land area that's just .19 square miles (total area of .24 square miles)! And I call it the Whittier, Alaska of NJ because of those Galaxy Towers! Each of the three octagonal towers are 44-stories (with two 16-story connecting structures as well) with over a thousand residential units (began as rentals but was converted to condos in 1980), retail, and office space! It takes its name from Johannes Gutenberg as it used to be populated by many Germans but now it's very Cuban. And that's not even the weirdest municipality in NJ! The weirdest one in NJ is South Hackensack....a township split into THREE SECTIONS! Basically after the "boroughitis" craze, several boroughs were formed in Bergen County, like within the limits of Lodi Township, and what became South Hackensack were the bits the boroughs formerly a part of Lodi Township didn't want. So it's divided into three noncontiguous sections. The northeastern, primary residential section is adjacent to Hackensack, Little Ferry and Teterboro. A small western portion, known as Garfield Park, lies in between Garfield, Lodi, Wallington and Wood-Ridge, while a southern sliver containing only industrial properties lies in the Meadowlands between Carlstadt, Moonachie, and Ridgefield. Teterboro is also weird, in that it's mostly an airport, industrial land, a Costco, a rail station with bad access, a Texas Roadhouse, a Walmart....and that's it.
I live in South Jersey and the buses here are largely empty any time of the day so I wondered where are the NJT buses crowded and you have answered that. Thanks!
I am a Foamer who recently became a locomotive engineer. Miles I hope you end up on my train one day in your videos.
If your supervisor gives you permission then that would be awesome.
That's fantastic! Am I allowed to ask which service you operate?
Glad you had a better experience than me during the fare holiday! On that Sunday (looks like the same morning this was filmed, based on the rain) I hopped a train on the NEC line from Princeton Junction to NYC Penn Station... Unbeknownst to me, the 9:00 train had been canceled. I can't post photos in a UA-cam comment but the Princeton Junction platform was PACKED. We all got onto the train, but it was standing room only - by the third stop. I went and stood in the vestibule (it was so busy the conductors didn't care) and by Metuchen even the vestibule was so full I couldn't really move. By Edison I literally couldn't move my arms. It was rough. Nice to see people taking advantage of the free transit though
NEC got absolutely FUCKED by the fare holiday, it seemed like every day something else was breaking down. Its really only gotten worse as evidenced by just this past week with the whole tunnel-train fiasco
I avoid going to NYC like the plague for that week (US Open) but I did several short hops on the NEC and every one of them was terrible. Trains that should have been nearly empty were more packed than rush hour. It got to the point that I just stuck with local buses, less crowded and more reliable.
Super cool bus ride - thanks for exploring my route :D
The 128 on top of the cliff has an even cooler view.
good job jeremy, you have converted miles into a palisades foamer
miles, for more cool palisades foamering, the haverstraw-ossining ferry is really amazing (and scenic!)
Noted!
Also if you take Metro North to Ossining, south of the station the rail ROW passes through Sing Sing State Correctional Facility, the origin of the saying "send them up the river" as a euphemism for going to prison.
8:42 hi vlog! What an unexpected cameo
Riding transit is so much fun for me even when it sucks. First class flights to Greyhound....love it all.
158 is my route, and I watch your videos on my commute (currently sitting on the 158). This is exciting stuff
That's wild!!
4:09
Miles - "Is that corn?!"
Jeremy - "It's the Upper West Side"
Classic 😹
That section on New Jersey along the Hudson is so utterly fascinating. Beyond the unusual urban fabric and building stock, the fact that almost every neighborhood is it’s own city. It’s only 10 miles between the GW Bridge and Jersey City, but its divided between 13+ municipalities. Guttenberg for example is only 4 blocks wide.
Did something similar to this once. Rode the Light Rail from 8th St. to Hoboken and then switched to the Tonelle Ave line to ride to the Port Imperial Ferry to get on a bus to Fort Lee. I didn't want to take multiple busses.
I also didn't pay for the Light Rail but it wasn't a fare holiday. I just didn't pay. The little digital thing to show when the train is coming had been out at my stop for three months and I wasn't paying until they fixed it. LOL. Only paid for the busses.
Ok here’s a weird GWB thing. At the Bridge Plaza in Fort Lee, single drivers will sometimes pull up and people will hop into an absolute strangers car. The drivers are looking for 2 passengers so they qualify for the heavily-discounted car pool lane and the passengers get a free ride. It’s all understood and no words are exchanged. The cars drop off at the street-level entrance to the GWBBS. Transit symbiosis!
I used to do this with many many others, but it stopped when cashless tolling went into effect and the carpool discount was discontinued. The carpool discount was given when there were 3 or more people in the car, which the toll attendant had to verify when you went to the toll booth.
Damn, I didn’t know it was gone, left the area a while ago.
It's called "slugging" in DC! Didn't realize something similar used to happen in NYC!
@@swingline-tb9xv Fort Lee is soooooo adurreable
@MilesinTransit I know this is off topic. Just needed to tag you.. I have a greyhound hack NO1 uses.. when you are in app you can buy your ticket and when you chose your seats it takes you to a screen where you have a time limit. Those seats are UNAVAILABLE for purchase until you buy them, time little reached or you FULLY exit purchase. A bus driver yelled at me about.my bag in the seat next to me. We were boarded 30 moms early (belive it or not) so during this time I think I reserved the remaining of the seats making them not available for purchase and also when I checked on my tablet it said only 3 seats remaining and that was because I could only reserve so many seats that way. It also adjusted the price in greyhounds fave, thinking the tickets we going to be bought. Newdless to say I sat next to no1.
You went through my hometown of Edgewater where you saw the big voluminous buildings! To answer your question on the big patch of land that hasn't been built on yet.... it used to be the site of Hess Oil Tankers (Edgewater was a big industrial town prior to the 1990s), a company bought up the land to use for highrises but its been in litigation with the town, who wants to build a school and other town utility buildings, on the site. The 158 is a lifeline for me whenever I go back!
I watched for the part at the end where you reveal how ridiculous this option is, but never knew that side of the river was like that, so cool!
If you ever want a really amazing view of Manhattan, you can bike almost the same route along the water. It's like 90% mixed use path except part of that final hill which is terrifying riding with traffic.
Should’ve made a stop at Mitsuwa Marketplace. The Japanese food court is worth the trip alone.
Keep the wacky transit adventures coming! This is absolutely the sort of stunt I’d try if I lived in New York. Currently on a month-long trip in which I’m working towards visiting every terminal on the BC ferries network. Problem is, we have no transit to speak of so I need to bike for weeks on end to get to some of these spots. 4 days left until I reach Bella Coola, one of the more remote spots on the network. Come out west and ride some ferries sometime. Washington and BC both have pretty good networks.
Oh wow, that sounds like an amazing challenge! I definitely need to come out there for the ferries sometime.
4:45 This empty lot is wrapped up in some scandals because people up the hill are suing over "lost views" and the owners may have done some questionable things with certain politicians. This lot used to have two huge oil or gas tanks (my wife lived on the Manhattan side when we first met (she went to Teachers College), and I was wondering what this odd lot was from Riverside Park one day.)
Gosh, sounds like a handful...
I like that this video ended up kinda being an ode to the Palisades and their funky architecture and infrastructure. Especially love the shoutout to the Galaxy Towers - genuinely one of my favorite apartment buildings. They just look so fascinating. Same goes for thr Stonehenge tower up the road in North Bergen.
An OurBus travelling through New Jersey?
A fitting tribute to Marc and me!
-Blair
When oh when will we get to see the stylish antics of Blair and Marc again here on the channel?
Oh man, if only your OurBus had diverted to the GWB!
@@MilesinTransit That would've just been perfect! Icing on the cake.
Hopefully we would've gotten to Union Square by the time the next race started...
Excellent video Miles. I’m hoping Gov. Murphy will grace us with another fare free week
Babe, wake up a new miles in transit video just dropped
The red shelters at the Bridge station remind me of the Ottawa Transitway - which also has red shelters with a very similar design aesthetic with mostly glass panes and lots of curved roofs with a similar radius (but those are enclosed).
Love this haircut arch we are stuck in right now
for real he should keep it
I did that loop on inline skates back in the 90s. Through the Lincoln Tunnel and then up and over the GWB.
WOW!
In the PABT mobility impaired passengers must contact a NJT dispatcher ahead of time and the bus will load at gate 304 which is the designated wheelchair pickup gate for the "chute" bues
They also can do it at gate 421, which is where they unload ada passengers
Gosh, what a pain!
How do they contact a dispatcher there a phone number or a booth
"Is that corn?!" you just summoned the Midwest....and Nikita Khrushchev. That empty lot you mentioned that you thought was for floodplain reasons, basically that land is wrapped up in scandals connected to Bob Menendez. Basically the 615 River Road was once owned by Hess, Hess sold to the site to a private equity firm and a land reuse/development company, the two companies filed an application for development in 2015, but a guy named Fred Daibes who is responsible for Edgewater's development boom got Edgewater officials to block it. This ended Menendez's friendship with US attorney for NJ Philip Sellinger because Sellinger was a shareholder in a firm representing 615 River Road, Greenberg Traurig LLP, and Menendez pressed Sellinger to intervene on behalf of Daibes's other federal banking indictment. While testifying in the senator's corruption trial, Sellinger said that when Menendez was vetting him to be New Jersey's new US attorney in 2020, he told him the prosecution of Daibes was unfair. The case over the property was settled in 2019, and in 2021, the project for the site involves three 25-story towers. One of my favorite NJT routes out of the PABT is the 320 to Harmon Meadow Mill Creek, it exists for two reasons. Because it stops at the North Bergen Park & Ride (right next to NJT's Meadowlands bus garage) for a quick ride for commuters heading to NYC since it's right next to NJ Route 495, and for New Yorkers heading to Walmart in Harmon Meadow since Manhattan doesn't have one! The 85 also serves Harmon Meadow, going from Hoboken Terminal to there via 9th/Congress HBLR and Bergenline Ave, with it being extended to American Dream when the mall opened, making it even more of a shopper service! During rush hour, the 78 from Newark Penn serves Harmon Meadow too!
Palisade is derived from pale, ultimately from the Latin word palus, meaning stake. The Lenape called the cliffs "rocks that look like rows of trees", a phrase that became "Weehawken"! They're basalt cliffs, the margin of a diabase sill, formed about 200 million years ago at the close of the Triassic period by the intrusion of molten magma upward into sandstone. When the trapped magma first intruded into the Triassic layers of sedimentary rock, it was so hot that contact metamorphism occurred, altering the rock around it. In the case of the Palisades, the magma cooled under the sedimentary layers, forming a sill made of igneous diabase about 40 miles long and 1,000 feet thick. During this time, crustal movements along the Ramapo fault tilted the entire region downward about 17 degrees to the west. Water erosion of the softer sandstone left behind the columnar structure of harder rock that exists today! The Palisades were the site of 18 documented duels and probably many unrecorded ones in the years 1798-1845. The most famous duel was of course the Burr-Hamilton duel which took place in Weehawken in July 1804! It also played a role during the American Revolution, as in the wake of the rebel's defeat in the Battle of Brooklyn and the Battle of Fort Washington, British commander Lord Cornwallis marched his men up the Palisades to try to ambush George Washington. Washington, stationed near Fort Lee, was alerted to the ambush by an unknown horseback patriot, and successfully fled west through Englewood and over the Hackensack River, avoiding capture in what is remembered as Washington's Retreat
Bob Menendez is really a politician/criminal that doesn't stop giving, isn't he?
He really is Gold ….
Oh my GOSH - you and your pals crack me up! LOVED seeing you guys on the 158. I live just north of the Galaxy Towers (on JFK Blvd East - which also has amazing views). River Road is definitely scenic and quite diverse. The "foliage" you inquired about - there are stretches of River Road that were allegedly so contaminated from creosote (that area used to be a railway and shipyard,) that the government said that you couldn't develop on the land (even doing like a story of concrete to attempt to shield the contaminates). HOWEVER (as it always happens - OTHER areas along that gorgeous stretch (on River Road) "somehow" got developed despite having the same health and safety issues. Some weekends (since I gave up my car) I walk down the steep Hill under the Galaxy Towers and take the 158 to and from the Target in Edgewater Commons. If you guys want another, equally cool view, next time take the 165, 166, 168 or 128 from PABT (Gate 212) along Blvd East - it's SUPER local (and takes a while) and then get off on Blvd East & Palisade Avenue (right at the edge of Braddock Park) and then you can take the 159 north (to the same Bridge Plaza destination. Thanks for another super entertaining vlog!
Great stuff, thanks a lot!
Love the reference to Leonard Cohen's, Woke Up This Morning ❤😊
This is exactly the kind of transit content I come here to enjoy.
Honestly riding a public transit vehicles in the rain is just peak vibes
I was waiting to see what yall did for the free nj transit week!! Hype
I took advantage of the free NJT fare. I mainly road the railroads, the Hudson Bergan Light Rail, and a commuter bus. It was fun. I wish I was able to do more. Just didn't have the time.
Woke up this mornin' and got some gabagool...
Mama always said I’d eat some… gabagool
You were right that ride thru that part of NJ is interesting ! I am now on a binge of what Gutenberg has to offer
I believe the empty lot you mentioned and wondered why it hasn't been developed is the superfund site in edgewater. Coal tar was manufactured there for years, and waste oil was also recycled there. Cleanup cost almost $100 Million. I remember walking there years ago and some guy on a bike passing a friend and I asked us to look it up in the paper, since we also were wondering what that spot's deal is.
i’m so happy you get to see GWB bus stop in fort lee, it’s a beautiful example of american transit architecture
That little town in NJ reminds me of that town in Alaska where everyone lives in the same apartment building
I think you'd really enjoy a long transit trip on the west coast. It's possible to ride transit all the way up California from the Mexican border to the Oregon border, and beyond.
To answer your question if that is a floodplain, yes it is! It is the meadowlands region of NJ and it is INCREDIBLY hard to build on.
I'm getting flashbacks...after college I lived in Weehawken and had to take a freaking Port Authority NJT to and from work in the city every day. And they weren't running every 2 minutes at rush hour. My bus went up on the cliff though.
Back in the early 1970s, many platforms did not have the inside partitions. We had to wait outside among all the diesel bus fumes.
The first trip reminds me of Alexandria, Virginia along King Street/Rte 7 just off I-395. Almost identical with the tower apartments on the hilltops and small strip malls below.
The M98 limited route used to actually go up to the GWB bus terminal a while ago!
A journey you can consider taking -
Take the MNR to Tarrytown
Take the HudsonLink across the bridge to Nyack
Take the TOR Haverstraw Ferry Bus/97 to Haverstraw
Take the Haverstraw-Ossining ferry to Ossining
Take MNR/Bee-line back to Tarrytown and you would've completed the Rockland-Westchester loop!
I've done it once. Think you'd enjoy it!
consider: doing this by bike (it is very fun)
So basically "Circumnavigating the Tappan Zee"
@@AverytheCubanAmerican yep! i wonder how many variations of this exist (circumnavigating different parts of the Hudson via public transit)
I'm very proud of everyone in this thread not calling the Tappan Zee Bridge by its illegitimate name
@@dhruvg550 you could probably circumnavigate the hudson highlands (start in pawling, DCPT E to MNR hudson line to newburgh beacon shuttle to shortline to port jervis line to hudson link to harlem line) but that may be hard schedule wise (esp west of the river)
I always love these silly trips that you deem “unnecessary” or weird but I love each and every one of them. Bucket list goals includes being one one of these weird trips.
I'm not even mad about this one. Someone going between Washington Heights and Midtown could have saved money, lol
Bridge foaming through the foamer window!
hey miles, at 4:15 (if the foilage is before mitsua marketplace) there used to be a very large golf course/driving range where the foilage is, but i think it was demolished a few years ago!
On the subject of futile bus journeys, some of the weekend London Overground rail replacement buses, particularly South of the River, will have you reconsidering your entire life's course - they are super circuitous and go half the speed of regular buses but they're as good as free, you just make sure to show your Oyster on the way in, no tap required \m/
7:35 that guy at the bus stop reminds me so much of Hiroshi Uchiyamada from GTO, red tie and all.
The building at 4:29 reminds me of a smaller version of the Romanian Palace of the Parliament for some reason.
Hard to say if Ceaucescu was a foamer
Shoutout to the tribal king. May he always be mentioned!
When someone in a wheelchair takes a bus at Port Authority they pull the bus up to the weird Coach USA part which has an elevator. Also, it’s even crazier taking the routes that use coach busses on those little roads in Hudson/Bergen counties.
There are also NJT buses that run nonstop between the Port Authority and the GWB bus terminals on their way to places north of the bridge! They used to run up Amsterdam Avenue but these days they generally run through NJ on the highways because it’s usually faster
So that explains why its official name is station and not terminal. Never thought about that until now, despite taking frequent umbrage when hearing GCT called Grand Central Station, which it is not (and despite a GCS actually existing-serving subway trains).
Which routes are those??
@@MilesinTransit I was mistaken its actually Rockland Coaches (Coach USA not NJT) routes that do this: Route 9AT and 11AT
Hmm, do they still run those? It looks like they're only running the vanilla 9 and 11 these days!
@@MilesinTransit Rockland does "run" service (they frequently drop the -6 trips they have)
I made it to New Jersey all eight days, mostly took the trains but did some busses also
that's the OurBus to Canada and thus the Niagara Falls and Toronto wrap
Those are some large blocks of flats indeed. I'm writing this comment from a large block of flat myself, but not that large.
I took the nj train to Trenton and then transferred to,I think,409, from Trenton to Philadelphia. Then towards back home to NYC, I took the Atlantic City NJ train to Atlantic City from Philadelphia, then took the 319 bus back to NYC, NYC subway A train to Utica, then the NYC bus B46 bus going home. Next time when I go to Philadelphia, I want to ride one of the septa buses
9:09 this is quite literally how my NJT bus to school looks like every day 😭
this is inspirational
Surprisingly the crowds weren't too bad on Free Fare Friday - was impressed!
It was free for the whole week, plus Labor Day
@@AbuNewYorkCity indeed but I was out on it during the friday
i love watching you guys at 2x speed
Miles in Transit - enjoy your vids! Were you at the Crowded House show on Saturday at Ovation Hall in AC? I saw someone who looked a whole lot like you wearing a green 'T' hoodie. If so, did you like the concert?
That was him. He posted about his bus route there on twitter. Also, what kind of person other than miles would wear a T hoodie lol
That was me, yeah! Of all places to get spotted, wow!
I did like it a lot, although I must confess that I'm a much bigger fan of Split Enz than of Crowded House, so my ulterior motive of getting some Enz covers was dashed for the most part!
4:45 Lawsuits and corruption. And an empty lot further south a bit earlier was the Quanta Superfund Site.
You guys are doing trips I have done many times but I paid!🙁 There are plenty options for the River Road route. You can take the #158 or you can take the #159R That goes via river road and then turns towards Anderson Avenue. That will probably get you nearby Bridge Plaza in Fort Lee. The #156 and the#158 get you off of Lemoine Avenue closest to Bridge Plaza
Otherwise, the best trip you want to go outside the city for even for a little bit. A huge contrast from the city to the suburbs back to the city
We love Jeremy
10:11 Very disappointed that you didn't say "poor bid"
I REMEMBER WHEN THIS HAPPENED A FEW WEEKS AGO and the first person I thought of was Miles. I was thinking "Well this would make a good video". Well... he was already on top of it, as usual. Love this channel.
Thanks so much!
Wheelchair passengers has to call nj transit to have bus pick up on curbside. You can charge your phone on njt articulated bus
Today's Soundbites
3:51 Now that is a fun fact
5:16 JORDYCAKES
10:43 Miles Mocks Announcements
10:48 I'm trying credits now. TM
Today's GEMs
3:41 Ding
Nothing more annoying than when schedules are intentionally bunched
5:14 oh my gosh, you sound like Timmy Turner and 7:09 sounds like Wanda
Hey Miles I got an idea for a trip. What if we did a trip, and hosted an in trip, or at station Bingo game, or other game with actual travel related prizes. Including "door prizes"? I'd cover my travel, and half of yours plus prizes, and equipment, while being behind the scene coordinator. You'd formulate which route would be ideal. One with a Folk like late night transfer maybe. Maybe even a Gambling Junkett. Amtrack or Bus
Bingo is a great idea
More NJTransit!
Also "Zoomer's world ends because they have to wait 10 minutes for a bus!!"
With Guttenberg being the densest town in the US by a four-block technicality, it's wild to think that major cities like Bogota and Dhaka have higher density averaged across a 300+ sq km area.
Good point!
Lol about the haircut referring to the livestream.
Shoutout "Hi Vlog" girl --
I never thought I'd say this but.... Miles, you are by far the least nerdy person in this video.
I mean nerd as a compliment, by the way.
People like to make fun of others for being passionately interested in niche topics. I think it ought to be celebrated.
Idea: make a parody of the Fairly OddParents theme but Miles In Transit
This route has been used by Manhattanites during NY transit strikes. Also, during the early days of Google Transit it would come up as a favored alternative because NYCTA wasn't participating.
Oh wow, that GTFS fact is a wonderful bit of transit history minutiae! Thank you!
Great video 👍👍👍
Fun Fact: There were plans for a Formula 1 race along parts of your route.
now thats a fun fact!
Sadly they were never able to get things up to the required standards, and then Formula E ran races in Brooklyn (around the docks near the cruise terminal, it's too small for the F1 cars, and there was really no paddock to speak of) for a few years. Now that Vegas has the 3rd American race, it's going to take something really big to lure F1 here (rumors are Miami might not last as long as they thought.)
@@joermnycthe current rumor is the next city in the US that F1 will try to have a street race is downtown Chicago. NASCAR has done it so it's feasible
Everything Jeremy says is so interesting, I wish he had his own mic 😂
Fry: I don't get it, this bus is perfect. I can't find anything wrong with it
Driver: We are technically in new jersey sir
Illustrating the desperate need for literally any way to cross the Hudson between 40th and 178th.
And yes we have a bus lane on the outbound also , starts at 2pm to 7:15pm
4:15- in the foliage, you can see Ailanthus altissima, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". It is an invasive toxic weed from China that can grow to be over fifty feet tall. It is the only tree that can bust through concrete.
I would donate to see Miles do that bus trip from New York City to Los Angeles on 5 different bus companies or 1 Carrier.
In fairness I've done NYC to LA on Greyhound before, it's a video on this channel!
Port authority is the most absurd transit experience I’ve ever had anywhere.
Jeremy! he is so unendingly pleased by everything he encounters!
Wow, I took the 156R at gate 201 on Friday (the river variant running alongside the 158), but to Port Imperial. A nice walk along the waterfront to Palisades medical center is (first time in that area). After, I took the 158 back down, but they had a mix of the shorter 40-foot NABIs, so those were crowded. Had to wait for a long boi to show up. Very nice area, and I do want to do the whole trip up to GW Bridge some other day. Also got to see the Hamilton/Burr statues on Harbor Boulevard in Lincoln Harbor.
This is exactly what I needed to come home to
And I thought the dumbest way to take advantage is to try to get on one of the diminishing Arrow III trains
What is a dollar van service? Like are we talking inflation dollar, and are there limits to where to go?
In NJ these vans typically service Bergenline avenue, routes from Downtown Paterson to GWB Bus Terminal via Route 4 / Broadway (also servicing GSP Mall). There are also a few routes that service the PABT that end in downtown Paterson as well. They directly compete with NJT and they are slightly cheaper. But they are cash only and there is really no set time table for them. The driver is typically on the phone with a dispatcher and other drivers which communicate with each other to judge demand at traffic stops and that determines how soon another bus is dispatched on the route.
So there are different dollar van services in the NYC metro, but on the NJ side, in Hudson County, these jitneys run on the main county throughfares of JFK Blvd, Boulevard East, Palisade Ave, and Bergenline Ave (they also run on Central Ave too but only rush hour). In Bergen County to the GWB, they'll also use River Road and Anderson Ave depending on the route. These jitneys have no schedules and will compete with NJT routes on these throughfares (they tend to cost more than NJT, but they're more frequent), serving the GWB, PABT, Journal Square, and Newport Centre mall depending on the jitney route. As the other reply mentioned, Paterson in Passaic County also has them, going between Paterson and the PABT or the GWB, with the GWB route serving Garden State Plaza in Paramus as well.
I used to live in JC so I'm very familiar with the jitneys. Also Classy Whale did a great vid on them with Alex Davis if you wanna check it out. Look up "New York's Most Confusing Transit Mode"
I drive a 60' articulated bus 2x/wk. Most of the "arctics" owned by my agency are terrible on hills. Other than my terrible hill climbing ability, that route doesn't look like it'd be a technical challenge.