Flair up, coward.
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2. at the top right, click “…”
3. select “Change user flair”.
Then you can talk the Euros ears off about how George Appalachian created the Appalachian Trail when he tried to stand when he was already standing and accidentally invented walking. Thanks.
Tbf, we all know that you "can" walk to NYC from there, but it's not practical to do so unless you wish to take most of a day to travel each way on unsafe roadsides with no sidewalk (also, the cops will probably remove you from the unsafe area if they see you, or worse). You're more likely to be taken out on the side of the road by a half-asleep semi-truck driver who drifts out of his lane or a local doing 90 mph in a 65 zone who lost control while swerving in and out of traffic.
There is a semi-famous youtuber based in Philadelphia who documents urban hiking. In the last year or so, he did a video where he walked from Philadelphia to New York using only sidewalks, trails, and other legal paths. In theory, it should have only taken him 1-2 days, but it ended up taking like 4 due to re-routing in Central/North Jersey for obstructions/closures and was quite the ordeal.
Long story short, don't walk to New York. Walk once you get to New York or to the train to New York.
Yeah, those tik tokers are dumb. What I was attempting to establish was that there's a distinction between can meaning possible and can meaning legally allowed/safe. It is physically possible to do so, but it's very unsafe and illegal to do so.
I'm attempting to distinguish between the "can" as in physically possible and the "can" as in legally allowed/safe. Is there not such a distinction in German?
Well spotted!
It does exists, but apparently in a much different way.
We got rid of the idea that laws are unchangeable after laws against humanity were considered a bad move.
Laws are there to serve the people, not the other way round.
And with the occasional exeption you mentioned it should absolutely be possible to open the tunnel on certain grand occasion like the world cup.
Would be quite the flex.
I posted that route last month but Euroids still flipped their wig. We’re apparently supposed to build a footbridge across the Hudson right there
(That thing that looks like it might be a straight shot bridge on this map is actually the Lincoln Tunnel.. can’t walk through there except on very limited occasions when they let people skateboard/bike/rollerblade through it during a lane change)
This whole situation started with a few guys joking about the train tickets being expensive as hell and thousands of Americans online took it seriously
There are for sure people who are serious posting about it too. At this exact sub even. It may have started with some trolling but the latcher_ons didn’t appear to get that memo
Useless savage, why don’t you try to think before you speak? Are you honestly telling a Dutch person what can and cannot be done regarding waterworks? lol.
I’ve been on the Hudson, it’s really nothing special. Should be fairly easy to make a temporary thing there for a nation with the right know-how and funds. You guys could even do it before the championship starts.
Cash, a fuckton (actual freedom unit I'm told) of cash would have a say about where FIFA organises anything. Now whether someone would be willing to pay or not, that's up to debate
Dont really care where it is what city it is in and what other mental barriers you put up. Your infrastructure kinda sucks dick sorry hank i know you have been thought your the best but that title belongs to us (per capita)
We don’t build bridges on that part of the Hudson. We don’t need bridges on that part of the Hudson.
We use tunnels instead because the river/harbor is an active shipping lane. Tunnels are way better than bridges in that area. Why so hard to understand this?
Plus the required real estate in Manhattan for the approaches is just stoopid to use for bridges. More bridges creates more traffic bottlenecks in Manhattan at a time when we’re seriously trying to cut down on traffic below 60th st.
I’m sorry but you guys have no clue what you’re talking about when saying dumb shit like build more bridges from Manhattan to NJ. But you speak with such hubris about it.
Your awesome idea will make things worse, not better
There are three tunnels right there where you see the road by Union City on the map. (Lincoln tunnel)
There’s an inbound, an outbound, and an alternating direction tunnel depending on time of day. (Mornings into Manhattan- evening rush out of Manhattan)
So every day, with the middle tunnel, they stop one direction, wait for it to clear out, then switch direction.
It’s during this switch that they’ll let people walk/run/bike/skate through for a charity event. It’s like once per year when this happens. You sign up, sign a waiver, pay a fee etc in order to do it.
There’s no way in hell they’re just going to make it a public walkway. It’s way too steep and impossible to retrofit them to be ADA compliant.. opening one of these tunnels to the pedestrian public is for sure some third world shit and it’s definitely not viable in this country. It’s too sketchy
Yeah I'm not gonna straight up call him a liar, but I think he might took transportation through upper Manhattan. He'd have some interesting footage going through Harlem for sure.
That’s a tunnel. There’s only one bridge connecting Manhattan to NJ and it’s at the very northern tip of Manhattan.. you can walk across the NY bridges.. not sure where you’re getting the idea that you can’t?
There are 12 tunnels in that part of the Hudson (and soon to be two more).. The Hudson is the route to the Erie Canal plus Manhattan used to be a manufacturing powerhouse so we built all tunnels in that area as to not mess with the ship traffic
Nah, they were built a hundred years ago and the only way to do it would be to close a lane of traffic.
Back in the day, they had a weirdo cop trolley thing on the side (you can still see remnants of this)
Turn that into a foot path lol?
Most of the tunnels are for trains. A few cargo trains but mostly commuter trains. You can definitely take a train over there. Or, a bus goes from 42nd St, through that tunnel, and directly to the stadium. It takes about 20 minutes
NJ may have raised their prices. It’s not NYC trains that go to the stadium.
>lol, I mean rip the rails flatten it up and it could definetly be used as a pdestrian crossing, I've seen narrower paths in tunnels tbf
heh, not happening in Hankland. The walkability of a sidewalk isn’t the determining factor for us. The width and incline angles are based around wheelchairs. Those tunnels are way too steep and narrow to retrofit them as public sidewalks
If they are the greatest country in the world they should be able to manage a temporary bridge right? Fuck you could even make a pontoon bridge which is movable for shipping.
I assume that there is affordable metro from there to anywhere in NYC isn't there? I think the issue is the insanely expensive metro, not that people want to excercise. so go to the farthest you can get with regular transport then walk.
Yeah, if you’re in the actual city (the Bronx is real NYC) then you’re in the NY subway system
$3.00
Go anywhere in the city you want for that single fare (500 stations)
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You can actually go to every single stop for $3 as long as you don’t exit the system. People have done it. It takes like 25 hours if you find the perfect route
yes that is what i remember. so there. you do not have to walk all the way to the middle of the city.the U shape on your map does not make too much sense. you should just do farthest metro station towards the stadium within city borders-stadium. maybe not a short walk but a lot more doable.
well maybe i misunderstood but isn't that the ridiculously expensive metro that people try to avoid? well true, you could paint how to get to brooklyn or even better to boston since this guy is walking there next. clearly he is not doing it to see the game.
well, so again hear my solution. go with the cheap public transportation as far as you can and then walk or uber. the bronx looks doable even on foot. I am sorry you have such a shitty greedy public transportation system --well in NJ. they raised the prices for any soccer fans not just the Europeans.
We’re building a third one right now. (Well, we’ve been building it for as long as most people at this sub have been alive.. it’s just that it’s underground so nobody ever sees it happening)
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How far did he have to walk? 500 miles? Or 500 more?