That's good news, but unfortunately black swan events(due to operations mismanagement or no) can expose underlying systems that are hanging by a thread.

There was a derailment a few days ago, AFTER the major one a couple weeks ago. After the most recent derailment, they drug the train back to the shed. Soon after that, emergency track repair ensued(probably due to the train being dragged), and now MORE track repairs in the same area?

This kinda goes back to my long rant about systemic failure in industrial maintenance, and it is painting a narrative that does not bode well. Further losses in skilled labor might send the system over the edge from subfailure to overt failure. Very bad news. It already seems that upper management is incompetent, but if that's filtering down to first level management and maintenance, I just dunno. Those new cars can't come soon enough.

Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I've seen institutional maintenance failures cascade and it's not pretty and it's not easily recovered from.

I've got a sense that the feds may take a look at it again and deny the funds, plus the state has to kick in too. Dunno if I see that happening. I'd hope that a shift to a BLVD subway would be a nice shiny carrot for the feds to fund, as it would carry 100k riders a day by the estimates from 20 years ago. Probably many more now

Let them eat cake

They're not though.

10000 daily riders, an increase of -4500 over current bus routes

I can't either!

Say what you will about the tenets of MANDATORY 4K, but at least it's an ethos

An impromptu emergency protest was organized for a formerly aggressive, now dead pit bull in minutes because its owner was crying instead of taking responsibility in silence. To respond to your statement, I, too wish protests would ensue to demand the police get better at solving shootings.

The blue lives boner crowd is really dumb. With simple resources and time I'd bet I could do better solving shootings using reverse image search and some open source AI shit. Honestly I think AI will end up being a great tool for murder police, if blue would ever stop delivering faxes by hand

Yeah having savvy social media types and people good at computers is part of mandatory 4K too. I mean right now it's a bunch of drooling boomers trying to do detective work with thumbs up their asses.

The idea is the person responsible would already be in custody

Edit: people are taking me literally? For fucks sake, MANDATORY 4K would enable police to already be tracking the movements of suspects and an arrest would happen by morning. This would be the case in like 90% of shootings. Imagine.

No arrests?

MANDATORY 4K

I obviously offended some art history graduates working in the nonprofit space and juggling high debts while having to endure their plumber cousin at Christmas busting out the biggest wad of cash they'd ever seen to pay for fireworks for all the kids

Edit: some of this was in response to that absurd article from a commie newspaper that was posted and removed

The TUGSA represents the union. To "organize" outside that committee would require electing new representatives for the bargaining committee, which depends on the wording of their contract PLUS there's strict rules as per act 195 as to how that can be done-and when. The elected representatives are the exclusive representatives for collective bargaining purposes. Sometimes you have to offer a contract that you know is unpopular for a vote to move forward in the process.

What I don't know is if these employees are considered "public" employees, which under the terms of PERA/act 195 gives very strong protections for public employees. It also proscribes the process in which impasses are dealt with, starting with the bureau of mediation. Then comes a fact finding panel and another set of procedures. Then the unit can legally strike. But there's also options for voluntary arbitration.

I'm curious, because I'm not sure if they are act 195 employees, as temple has act 195 employees for sure, but none of the other units have had to go on strike as far as I know, and relations with other workers have not been nearly as contentious. It seems that temple has blown past all the steps(if they are act 195) and dug their heels in.

Obviously the workers want to get paid more, and they should.

I do think that higher ed in general, especially public schools like temple without huge endowments are headed for trouble in general. For a couple generations, "college" has been the goal pushed for everyone, but that hasn't been ideal. In my opinion, WAYYYY to many people went to college unnecessarily, and either got art degrees and were like what do now, or ended up loaded down with debt to make 65k at a nonprofit. Some of this is structural in our system, but people are waking up that the trades can give you 100k and zero debt, and the severe deficit of knowledge workers who know how to do critical things that no one pays much mind to is catching up to us. From pilots, to machinists, electricians to mechanics, plumbers, etc-all boomer heavy positions, and a lot of guys retired, plus it's hard to get young people in and stay on task. Much bigger conversation, but in sum I think college enrollments will decline, and more people will look to skilled trades and truck driving etc to get sufficient income.

It's like my mother in law complaining about their elevator being broken. Well, honey, elevator technicians are behind and there's not enough of them, and it's a VERY specific knowledge set, so you have to wait. Boomers.

I mean really, how many art history degreed individuals do we need?

Edit: basically I think temple can see these trends developing, which, plus their abysmal public safety record of late leads them to think, rightly, that enrollment will decline, squeezing the budget. So that's why they are taking a hard line. But it's costing them more imo to not bite the bullet, pay them and figure it out. Maybe not having 5373 vice provosts could help? I dunno.

It depends

Two things can be true: Philadelphia is relatively lawless

22 acres in buckingham is worth more than 10 million dollars

MANDATORY 4K gets one for the team. Though I'm pretty sure they used geofence warrants thru the marshals service to get the guy, as well as running his face thru reverse image search(which of course mandatory 4K enables)

How about MANDATORY 4K instead?

enters the chat

Yes

Literal jabronis. Look like ones too.

I think as it is some of them already did when this news broke