MANDATORY BUS-BASED CRIME DETERRENCE

I went through the mobile ticketing beta for 2 months and only had one issue with the reader and it wasn't working for the key either so it needed a full reboot.

Submitted a ticket and it was working the next day.

It's not like the italian market doesn't have that competition already

Son of a bitch. Aite, I'll call up that guy that throws "spontaneous" parties on random infrastructure.

we're not doing large swaths of impervious surfaces anymore

> The city shouldn't have to spend $200 million a year so people don't murder each other.

man, next let me tell you about our $800M+ police budget that continues to grow every year

Good link!

I've also found the Philly Rowhouse Manual supremely useful and informative.

Besides the bonkers shit going on here, especially Bridgette M. (Brawner) Rice, a villanova professor (who wrote the grant for this debacle) who need to absolutely be named and shamed, shoutout to Max Marin and Sam Melamed, good work here.

We're already designing/building streetscape improvements to accommodate the trolley modernization project (see: island ave), so at least it'll happen sometime in the next few years (TM)

> Sell drugs indoors for fuckssake

yeah but that's boring when you can be out on the wire

Greatest review of any bar I've ever read.

Yeah man, can't have the 4-ton hunk of steel traveling 85mph be too safe

the most I've ever learned about neighborhood lore was out drinking a beer at 3am with one of the block oldheads while shoveling all of our neighbors' sidewalks

Cheers to Ada

I appreciate her efforts, you're of fantastic stock and we all appreciate her.

> when grandma turned her shotgun on the klan

what an absolute gongshow of a woman, what does/did she like, I'll throw some money at that charity

Even media is basically dead outbound off-peak, in my experience. Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly) swarthmore seems like it's the stop on the line with the most traffic off-peak.

Elwyn is crazy busy on-peak, people park dangerously on the street and you can't get a spot unless you're there by like 7am in the morning. It's a huge collector for that side of delco.

But yes, the infrastructure issues are a huge hurdle, which is why I don't actually see anything practical happening in the next decade, even if that other agency that wants to buy the trainset gets fully funded.

> A look at the 104 bus shows that septa service to West Chester isn't particularly busy once you go past 476 on West Chester Pike.

Because it blows. From my house in south philly it would take me 2 hours to get to west chester via the 104. It's easier to just get a zipcar and deal with 95/476 or the schuylkill/202 or take the regional rail and picked up at wawa.

I'd love the west chester line as it's one of the major places in the philly burbs where there's just no good way to get to. I realize there are significant setbacks and it'll be a decade before it runs again even if the political stuff gets ironed out quickly, but judging by the traffic I've seen getting off at wawa, it might have some legs. Before wawa opened, that line would have like 3-4 people still on the train getting off at elwyn off-peak, the last train I took out there on the weekend, both cars were about half full and getting off at wawa.

Good rec. I also just carry a backpack everywhere and stop in to grocery stores when I'm walking nearby for something else.

Going a couple times a week isn't an issue when you only have a few things and so does almost everyone else.

yeah, i remember the black and white oval shaped ones, probably closer to early 2000s

Because it's 99% of the time misused by millennial transplants

yes because that happened later and I didn't feel like googling more

Here's the article about the assault

Since nobody has a real answer: one of them choked someone and SEPTA cancelled the contract.

Also a person nodding off doesn't make the car unusable.

He's still a meme because none of the things he says make any sense unless you've never worked with a municipal, state, or federal government in any capacity, which I've also been saying about his policies for years.

Squilla almost lost his rebid when he took away something like 6 parking spots on 11th st when they added the bike lanes.

Someone unironically gave an interview and said "where will I park my 3rd car?"

People are lunatics about parking.