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Poll choices :

1) McDonalds

2) Burger King

3) Subway

4) KFC

5) Sushi

6) Chinese Food

7) Wendys

8) White Castle'

9) Pizza

10) Other

KFC!! I'm eating it right now LOL! I loke the crispy fried chicken!

I would say that my favorite as far as quality are Wendy's and Subway. I also like pizza and Chinese food, but I wouldn't trust sushi. I wouldn't want to risk getting sick from the uncooked fish.

This reminds me: In Peru, we have a dish called ceviche, which is basically raw fish in lemon juices (the lemon juices "cook" the fish, but again, you have to be careful that you don't get sick from it)

I remember a survival show where a man was trapped in his flooded house, so he salvaged some fish from the refrigerator and used that strategy to prepare it.

Favorite

 

Checkers- they're not a mainstream fast food restaurant, but they have a location on Chambers Street and another location in Queens (I think near the Q25/34). Their fish sandwich is tasty. They also make a nice chicken sandwich. They have a 2 for $4 deal.

 

White Castle- I'm not a fan of their Sliders (burgers) but I like their chicken rings and fish sandwiches. They also have cheese fries and mozzarella sticks.

 

Wendy's- I no longer eat burgers, but Wendy's burgers are the best out of the big three.

 

Least Favorite

 

McDonald's- their food tastes so bland. Besides the Big Mac and chicken nuggets, I don't like anything on their menu.

 

Burger King- I used to like their Tendercrisp Chicken sandwich until it made me sick. F*ck the Burger King on Jamaica Avenue.

 

KFC- KFC's macaroni also sent me to the bathroom. The KFC Snacker is the size of my palm yet they charge $1.49 for it. The chicken is tough and hard to bite into.

There's a Checkers in my area (Forest Avenue/South Avenue). The 2/$4 sandwiches are good, but I think they are a little too small for the price that you pay.

Favorite: McDonalds, KFC, Burger King (even though I don't their burgers) Wendy's (same as BK) & Subway, Chinese Food, 7 Eleven (Just like their Hot Dogs for now), Pizza (Domino's & One around my neigherhood).

 

Dislike/Least Favorite: White Castle, even though I didn't try them on a complete ocassion I still choose to stay away from them plus the fact I don't see anything they have that fit my taste buds.

I occasionally get those frozen pizzas from the supermarket but I agree that they're not the same as fresh pizza from a pizzeria. Generally, the difference is in the cheese, rather than the toppings or the bread.

I don't really eat fast food. If anything I'll go to Whole Foods and get their prepared foods, but that isn't really fast food per se. They use healthier options in terms of ingredients and I don't really go for lots of fried food either. On occasion maybe once a month, I'll order from my local pizzeria, but even then I'm careful about what I order. Usually spinach salads with grilled shrimp or grilled chicken, grape tomatoes and so forth and maybe I'll get a side of french fries as a treat, but that's maybe once a month or maybe once every few months. Same thing goes for pizza. Usually veggies like onions and such with cheese and olive oil. :cool:

I'm not really into fast food either. You can make cheaper, healthier food at home, but it takes time (and the whole purpose of fast food is obviously to save time)

Holy cow... Well now I know someone does indeed by those 20 piece nugget deal... :eek:

When I was younger, my mother used to buy me and my two brothers the 20 piece McNuggets, but being health-conscious, would only buy one for all of us.

The only thing I really like about McDonald's are their salads and French fries.

Maybe it isn't loaded with sugar, but it's usually loaded with sodium, so it's like trading diabetes for a stroke. In fact diet soda is just as bad as regular soda when you see all of the crap they add to it to make up for the loss of the tons of sugar the keep out of it.

 

 

 

So you drink diet soda, but order a 20 piece nugget and use 5 packets of BBQ sauce which is loaded with what?? Sugar... lol

 

Of course I treat myself to things from time to time, but in moderation. Folks really don't know what they're eating; that and the size portions.

You know the saying: "If something sounds like a science experiment, it probably is". All that sorbitol and propylene glycol and other crap that they put in there is probably 1,000 times worse than regular sugar. When you bite into any "sugar-free" thing, you can taste how artificial it is.

My dad's kind of a health-nut, but he always says: If you must have something sweet, at least make sure it has real sugar.

Like you said, the key is to eat those foods in moderation, rather than try to substitute artificial stuff.

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"Tu Angelito" by Chino y Nacho

I foudn this funny video: http://www.howwedrive.com/2011/03/25/non-compliant-pedestrian-guidance/

Subchatters have the dumbest bus route ideas. Someone proposed combining the Q76 and Q77, even though it would circumvent downtown Jamaica. Another person wanted to extend the Q44 to JFK Airport.

If you think about it, there is a little bit of logic in the Q76/Q77 combo. Anybody going to Jamaica has the option of transferring to the Q1/Q36/Q43. In addition, basically all Q77 riders are within walking distance of a route that goes directly to Jamaica. The Q76 has other routes within walking distance that connect to the subway.

The problem is that routes that don't connect with the subway tend to perform poorly (like the Q79. It wasn't that bad, but it still did much worse than the surrounding routes)

Both cities are right by the coast (most of the cities are, since the Andes Mountains are further east, but both of these cities are basically by the waterfront), and Piura is right near Ecuador. By comparison, Lima is in central Peru.

I've lived in:

Lima, Peru

Piura, Peru

New York City, United States

I've visited the following cities:

Miami, FL

Orlando/Lake Buena Vista, FL

Key West, FL

Nassau, Bahamas (the only international city besides Lima and Piura)

Washington D.C

Philadelphia, PA

Boston, MA

Newark, NJ

Elizabeth, NJ

Jersey City, NJ

Bayonne, NJ

Fort Lee, NJ

Mineola, NY

Yonkers, NY

Albany, NY

tripleeye49 : Good ideas. I doubt the MTA would implement them but, by glancing at them, many of them make sense.

Yuki: The N58 is timed to meet departing LIRR trains (I'm assuming those going to Manhattan). If the Q79 were to be combined with an LI Bus route (which I highly doubt is going to happen considering the situation going on in Nassau County), the best route would probably be the N1, as it is a straight shot up Plainfield Avenue. In addition, since it would be serving 3 LIRR schedules (Little Neck, Floral Park, and Valley Stream (though not directly)), coordination with the LIRR schedules is less of a priority.

Either that, or the N2 can be combined with the former Q79 by going down Tulip Avenue (though that would be less direct than the N1 extension, and less of a "crosstown" route)

What somebody could do if they wanted to would be to make a Google Map of each train line, and it would say the length of the line.

@4P3607: You are correct. I think that involves transferring at 42nd Street, rather than Fulton Street.

This idea came into my head recently.

 

The B32: A local route to compensate the Q24's and old B40's Broadway branches and the B12's and old B40's Liberty Avenue branches. This route would go from the Williamsberg Bridge Plaza to Sheridan Avenue in Cypress Hills. The route would go like this:

 

Westbound:

a. Leave the Sheridan Avenue terminal and head down Liberty Av.

b. Turn on ENY Av. to B'way Jct.

c. Turn on Broadway.

d. Continue down Broadway to Bridge Plaza.

 

Eastbound:

a. Down Broadway to Broadway Junction.

b. Turn on Pacific St.

c. Turn on Sackman St.

d. Turn on ENY Av.

e. Turn on Liberty Av.

f. Turn on Autumn Av.

g. Turn on Glenmore Av.

h. Turn on Sheridan Av. to its terminal.

As B35 via Church said before, that route would perform terribly. You would be combining a low-ridership portion of the B12 with a low-ridership portion of the Q24, and having it duplicate the subway to boot.

Another route I would create would be the S45, running the following route between the St. George Ferry Terminal and the Jersey Gardens and IKEA Elizabeth, hourly:

 

Leaving the Ferry, follow the S46 route to Port Richmond Avenue. Then, south on Port Richmond Avenue to Walker Street, across Walker Street to Morningstar Road, south on Morningstar to Forest Avenue, west on Forest to the Goethals, and over the Goethals and via the NJ Turnpike to Jersey Gardens Mall first, then to IKEA. Layover at IKEA.

 

The S45 would not carry customers between IKEA and Jersey Gardens (use the NJT #40 or #111 instead).

I think it would be better off going straight down Forest Avenue, giving the S48 sister route (like the S44/S59 or S78/S79) for a significant distance. The S48 is more well-used than the S46 for the most part.

South Shore-Newark Airport

X33:

Follows X23 route to NJ Turnpike, then non-stop to Newark Airport.

Staten Island

Pickup outbound to NJ and Drop-Off Inbound: X23 Stops

Drop Off Outbound/Pickup Inbound: GoBus#28 Stop.

Idea: Staten Island riders will have one seat ride to Newark Airport

I think a better, less circuituous idea to serve the South Shore would be to have it start from the Eltingville Transit Center, go down Drumgoogle Road, and go up Huguenot Avenue to the WSE.

The X23 is just too circuituous.

I start college classes at the end of this month. :tup:

Same here.

Damn, this vacation flew by. I'll be starting school again on Monday.

That was my feeling too. A lot of these routes are just plain unrealistic.

I don't think it would be longer than the current M5, though.

The run from 149th Street to Gun Hill Road is about 50 minutes (from 149th Street to Fordham road, the trip is about 30 minutes). However, if travel times are reduced by 20% because of +SBS+, the time would be 24 minutes to Fordham Road and 40 minutes to Gun Hill Road.

The M15 +SBS+ takes about 75 minutes, and it takes about 10 minutes to get from 125th Street to 149th Street. If you only run the route to Fordham Road, the travel time would be 109 minutes, roughly the travel time of the full-length M5.

Things would be a lot simpler if they hadn't torn down the 3rd Avenue El.

What if Third Avenue were made into an +SBS+ corridor, and you had the route combined with the M15 +SBS+? From Fordham Plaza to South Ferry, the trip would be about 2 hours, comparable to the M5 route.

That could possibly be because the service ends at Kings Highway, and it is harder to continue west (there is no easy way to get towards Bay Ridge/Dyker Heights). If you expand the route, you might discover a demand for travel between these areas.

If you think about it, the B9 gets a lot of riders that continue past the Brighton Line.

I would doubt that it would see heavy ridership. People who live near Slosson Avenue already have the express buses go right onto the SIE, and people further west go towards the X17J, which is very frequent in the AM.

If it is that important to serve those people, maybe a few X31s can make local stops along North/South Gannon Avenue.

I thought so too. IIRC, he does live in the Bronx.

For me, I attribute it to having lived in a fairly transit-rich part of NYC (Brighton Beach, Brooklyn) and riding the trains a lot. That feeling stayed with me even after I left Brooklyn and grew as I acquired Internet access and learned how to use the Internet to engage in these discussions (as a child, I used the library's computers for things like games, because I didn't realize so much information was available about transit).

I live on the West Shore of Staten Island in an area called Graniteville.

A question for checkmate:confused:.

 

Does this 'favorite tv show' 'list have to be current or all time?

 

Honestly i don't watch much of the current shows as i watch mostly sports, news shows during prime time in the evenings as i dislike almost all of the reality shows that took over tv. Recently it was '24' "Law & Order' and "Lost' but they are now all cancelled.

Good question. You could pick your all time favorite TV shows.

By the way, I'm pretty sure Law and Order is still on.

What is your favorite televison show?

Mine would be Family Guy. Runners-up are The Simpsons, Spongebob, and Dexter's Laboratory. I'm a huge cartoon fan.

I have several topics to post, which I copied from the ones that I posted on Straphangers.org. I figured I could give some information on some of the studies regarding rail service on Staten Island.

There is a website: http://www.rpa.org/pdf/RPA_tomorrows_transit.pdf that shows which areas are in most need of transit. They are, in that order:

High Pop. Density & Low Income

High Pop. Density Only

Low Income & Lower Density

This website shows a map of areas on Staten Island that fit this description, and a fair percentage of those areas are on the North Shore.

Way back, there was an article in the Staten Island Advance stating the possible route of the line. Although the residents chose a route along the MLK, Staten Island, and West Shore Expressways, one plan was to have a spur from the line that went to the Staten Island Mall from the West Shore Expressway. This might be feasable, considering that on the map, the population density is higher by the Mall.

This plan would go a long way towards solving Staten Island's transportation isssues. If you look on the Composite map, you'll see that the North Shore Line going to Arlington (or a little bit further to a park-and-ride lot in Bloomfield) would significantly cut down on the number of people on the North Shore who live far from the subway (since most of the areas near the ROW fit at least one of these descriptions). The West Shore Line would cut down on the number of people living far from the subway, by not being redundant with the North Shore Line. The area that I notice is uncovered by the North Shore Line that would be covered by the West Shore Line is the areas around the north end of Richmond Avenue, between Forest Avenue and the Staten Island Expressway, and the area west of Richmond Avenue at this point. These areas fit the definition of High Pop. Density Only.

Quite honestly, in my opinion, I would put the West Shore Line down Richmond Avenue, so that most of the same areas by Richmond Avenue remain served while higher density areas get the service. Most of the far West Shore has a density of 0-2,000 people per square mile. The area of the West Shore around Richmond Avenue has a population density that ranges from 2,000 to 20,000 people per square mile, with the area right by the Mall having a density of 20,000 to 30,000 people per square mile. Running the line down Richmond Avenue would service these areas, which is, in my opinion, better than going on the West Shore Expressway and serving areas without the population density (except for this little spot by Arthur Kill Road, where the density is similar to near the Mall).

Any thoughts?

The three options that were originally considered were:

a) via the North Shore Line to Bloomfield and then onto the West Shore Expressway.

via Richmond Avenue (I don't know where it would terminate. Possibly Pleasant Plains via the Richmond Parkway)

c) via the MLK and Staten Island Expressway to Bloomfield and then down the West Shore Expressway to Pleasant Plains.

Which option do you think would offer the most value? Would you consider branching the current plan through Fresh Kills to the Mall?

Originally, ridership projections were 30,000 for the full line by 2020. Now the article says 13,000 (it doesn't say by when). The line to Bloomfield would cost $1.3 billion, and the full length line (without a branch to the Mall) would cost $1.8 billion (assuming option 3 is taken).

What would you change about this proposal based on the information?

Also, there are links at the Wikipedia page labeled ''Staten Island Island light rail'' (site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island_light_rail ).

The website for the final report is: http://www.siedc.org/images/PDF/WSLRPhaseII_FINALREPORT.pdf

Another website that talks about rail connections to New Jersey is: http://www.auto-free.org/lrt-staten.html

After reading the study, since the project would probably be divided into 2 phases (north and south of Bloomfield), I think that once phase 2 is complete, not all of the trains that are sent to Staten Island should be sent down there, since over 70% of the ridership would be north of Bloomfield, and the storage yard would probably be built near the Bloomfield station. This would assume that 6tph would be sent to Staten Island. If 3tph are sent to Staten Island, then, of course, all of those trains should run the full route.

Since they agreed from the start that the Richmond Avenue alignment would be the most cost effective, there should be a branch from the line at Richmond Avenue straight down to the Staten Island Mall. Unfortunately, they predicted that there would be protest from the community if the line went near residents, but this would definitely increase ridership.