[OC] How far the NYC subway actually takes you in 60 minutes

I'm the creator of subway.fyi, that uses historical data to forecast outages (sometimes 30 minutes ahead of the MTA), and allows replays of every incident in the system.

I keep hearing about the 15-minute city, and I wanted to see how far you could get in the city in 15, 30, or 60 minutes during a morning rush hour. This was the result!

  1. Times Square.
  2. Coney Island
  3. Jamaica

Feedback welcome of course.

Tools: Python, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, TimescaleDB. Data: MTA GTFS-Realtime, captured myself. More data at subway.fyi.

Try the new interactive version here: https://subway.fyi/60minutes?at=-73.91578,40.76028

u/qalpi — 9 hours ago

Locking up in Manhattan

When I commute to work I'm lucky enough to be able to lock up my bike in my office's basement.

Tomorrow there's a conference in the afternoon right down at Water St. Can't lock up indoors there but can outside. Have decent locks, a chain, and a cover.

But what the vibe lately? Are bikes just getting swiped if left for more than an hour or two?

Fully insured etc, but would rather not have it pinched!

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u/qalpi — 2 days ago
🔥 Hot ▲ 27.2k r/collapze+1 crossposts

This perfectly green Polo pitch in England as the country is ravaged by drought

u/jeremiahthedamned — 2 days ago

Baby in theater

At a 2:45pm Spider-Man showing (still 20 mins before it starts of course!) and someone is in here with a crying baby. I thought this shit wasn’t allowed?

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u/qalpi — 8 days ago

Stripped screw - GSD S10 LX Gen 3

Accidentally stripped the head of one of these black bolts from the chain cover (is there a better name for that part?!). Does anyone know the screw dimensions off the top of their head?

u/qalpi — 20 days ago

RR+: Battery died last died, fixing it now and seems the motor is no longer working

*Died last YEAR I mean

Is there anything magical I can do to get it working again? I can feel resistance if I roll backward with the throttle down. If I try to throttle forward I see the wattage shoot up but then nothing happens.

Is it even possible to replace the motor wheel?

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u/qalpi — 23 days ago
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I made a deep-dive bus tracker, see how "awful" your local stop is

https://buses.fyi/awfulness

I created an "awfulness" score for every stop in the city that updates in real time. It's a combination of average ridership on the route, wait time and bunching.

Every stop is ranked and you can see the how each line and stop has ranked over the last week. The idea is to answer the question: is it just me or is the route really that bad.

This is the sister site to my subway.fyi tracker (which proved to be very popular with city council members).

Feedback is *absolutely* welcome.

u/qalpi — 30 days ago
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NJ — seems like they’re requiring in-person registration even for out-of-state visitors?

I’m in NY. From what I’ve been reading it sounds like I need to register in person at the DMV just to be able to ride my bike over their border.

Absolutely hostile behavior to visitors.

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u/qalpi — 1 month ago
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I made an app / dashboard to monitor your GSD -- gets live data via the Connect Module over the Internet

UPDATE 7/14: I've made this as a standalone app that's MUCH easier to use and integrates directly with the Bosch sign in process. You can download it here: https://github.com/digitalhen/bosch-bar/releases/tag/v1.3-build4 (no tech skills required!)

Hello! I wanted a way to monitor my bike without using the Flow app. This borrows your own app's token to get the data, and then runs a service to grab the data every 5 minutes (so you'll need to be slightly technically minded to use this): https://github.com/digitalhen/bosch-flow. You get a notification on your Mac when your bike is fully charged. There's also a dashboard so you can explore all the trips you've taken on your bike, and to download the GPX files.

Example use case: automatically turning off the socket your bike is charging from when it's fully charged (the code supports webhooks for events)

All open source, nothing nefarious. Requires a Flow+ subscription. This was inspired by Phil-Barker/hass-bosch-ebike's code. I used AI to interrogate Bosch's end points to figure out what was available.

Happy to hear any feedback!

u/qalpi — 1 month ago
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[OC] The final World Cup humiliation

u/qalpi — 1 month ago
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[Oc] Starting line for the Tall Ships parade and July 4th air show in NYC

u/qalpi — 2 months ago

Test drove the GSD S10 and loved it. But why is the price so obscene?

Test drove the GSD S10 at Propel in Brooklyn. It’s fantastic. I had my 5 year old and 3 year old on the back and they were thrilled.

But it’s $7,999. Which is a little bit obscene. We’ve been burned (twice) by the fallout on Rad bikes and their batteries, so a bit hesitant to spend that much money x4.

Is there a lesser model that would work for those two growing kids? Or is there a way to save some cash?

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u/qalpi — 2 months ago
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[OC] The best Times Square could do for a World Cup watch party

u/qalpi — 2 months ago

Heard absolutely nothing from the candidates for Congress for NY-09

It's primary season, and in my area we've got three candidates: Yvette Clarke, Joshua Bristol, Michael Goldfarb.

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I haven't heard a single thing from any of them.

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Does anyone have any thoughts on them?

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u/qalpi — 2 months ago

Persistent "acetone" type smell

Hey folks -- this is a new one. We seem to have a persistent acetone smell inside the car. We thought it was from some rotten fruit that we've thrown away (i blame the kids!) but it's still there. It's only after it has been sitting for a little bit, and goes away when we start driving.

Does anyone know what it might be?

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u/qalpi — 3 months ago

Why aren’t the airports cleaning up the fake taxi bullshitters? (This one even had a fake ID)

u/qalpi — 3 months ago