You know I nailed that shit on nfceastmemewar as soon as some clown posted it over there

The ones I know/talked to seemed pretty committed to the public schools. Along with the money these people have a lot more political clout and the ability to demand accountability from the schools.

I left grad hospital after being there for nearly a decade almost specifically because there were too many children but I'm glad people are staying and making Philly a permanent spot to raise a kid.

I was betting that these people would move to the burbs as soon as their kid turned 2-3 but it looks like they doubled down and are really committed to raising their kids in grad hospital.

I am master of time

We now have two of them on concourse dr in west Philly near the mann/please touch :)

...all the signage was run over in the first week :(

level boarding, branding, improved shelters, transit signal priority, only high-ridership stops, etc.

again, there's a lot more that probably could be done (all-door boarding, prepay) but I think you can call it BRT-light without too much pain

Yeah, it's BRT-light, it doesn't have some elements required for full 'BRT' designation like pre-paying fares and shit too.

It's for engagement/information sharing purposes and common practice for public engagement type stuff.

SEPTA and the city desperately do not want to call anything they're doing BRT.

There's a bus on the boulevard that operates like BRT but they were INSANELY adamant about not calling it that.

> unless you live within a 5 minute walk to Jeff, Suburban or 30th, you aren't taking the airport line

I live in south philly and often take the airport line. It's not bad if you're close to the subway.

Our office (burbs) does a lot of them but the people that do the engineering and inspection live in the city.

Curb ramps are surprisingly finnicky. I fail about 75% of the ones I've inspected, though I rarely do inspection much anymore.

They're supposed to come back and do a pavement adjustment so that they meet street grade (and so that water can flow correctly around them) but often that step gets missed.

You should ask for all civil engineers with ADA ramp experience to spend a single day designing and contractors building as many ramps as possible.

Currently 50% of the paving budget is going to ADA ramp design-builds because the city has been sued like 8x over it.

lmao

honestly that's kinda your fault for crossing the river

> Point Breeze, Newbold

Block to block, but getting better. It's significantly less maintained than east passyunk, but if you're closer to broad it's easily walkable to everything east passyunk offers, as well as the subway and access to some good buses.

It feels very neighborhoody over here though, where if you find a good block you'll know all your neighbors and everyone looks out for eachother. I don't know if east passyunk is like that, but once grad hospital gentrified it went from neighborhoody to just rich out of touch people living in their own little castles with little interaction with the world around them.

oh god the poles have broken out of the port richmond containment zone?

It's a pretty long commute from the city by either train or car. If they have a shuttle from the Malvern or Paoli stop on the Paoli-Thorndale regional rail, that may be your best bet.

You don't need a car to live in Philly. I work in Ardmore (a few stops closer to the city on that line) and live in south philly and do just fine without one. Transit and walking and biking works well here. I actually used to drive to work, then the annoyance of that commute caused me to start taking the train and eventually selling my car entirely.

Mt. Airy and Chestnut hill are definitely more suburban and overall very safe. They're also full of 'crunchier' parents from my personal experience.

You should go check it out to do due diligence, at least, as I think it'll be different from what you're thinking. I have a few friends who live around the Upsal station on the chesnut hill west line and they seem to be quite pleased. I tried linking you a google maps link, but automod deleted it. Check that area out on street view.

I see some decent stuff on craigslist - if you look by maps it gets rid of a lot of the stuff from temple and it's pretty easy to filter out garbage/spam posts from there.

Honestly if you're gonna do roast pork or something, you can make it ahead of time, bring it down in a sealed container with the rest of the ingredients separate, then heat and assemble on location. They'll be soggy as fuck otherwise.

I did this and it was using amtrak.

He also took tremendous efforts to avoid public scrutiny for a very long time and has basically thrown that all away, which is wild.

I have a few friends at SIG and they said for years he did everything in his power to be quiet about his fortune.

Yeah man my packed subway cars every morning and evening really mean everyone is using rideshares.

It's aggressively fine.

yeah but we seem to love the circus

Correct, thank you. I figured that bill was going to either get killed or poison pilled but never followed up, appreciate the article.

Pennsyltucky never fails to amaze me with their absolute braindead politics.

Spring garden is going to be parking protected.

It's also not that harrisburg made a law, it's just that the way our streets are codified requires cars to be parked next to the curb. Parking protected bike lanes are "pilots" that PennDOT grants because they realize it would require a pretty heavy political lift from our insane state legislature to change the code.