What's the best way to make a small fortune?

Start with a large fortune and buy a boat.

15% is a "rule of thumb" now? I thought it was an horror statistic, like most people not having $400 in savings.

You're talking about monthly payments, right? Otherwise, I assume you would've reported annual income.

Reporting interest income is one of the easiest parts of filing a tax return after basic wage income, and I relish the idea that HR Block is charging people money to complicate the process.

I've never been to Italy, but I assume this cramped, lively basement restaurant is the closest you can get in Pittsburgh.

Specifically, the segment along the Mon.

• Reclamation of land for productive development.
• Elimination of a massive, miles-long barrier that makes crossing the Mon even harder than it needs to be.
• Reduction of noise pollution along the bike trail and around Mt. Washington (the sound carries across the water).
• Elimination of hilariously dangerous blind urban on-ramps that highway "engineers" squeezed in wherever it looked like it would fit on their little 1:100 scale black-and-white 2D drawings.
• Reduction in the number of unnecessary bridges to be inspected and maintained (elevated highways and ramps are bridges).

A comically expensive undertaking, to be sure. Hence its position at the bottom of the list. The more logical solution would be to have never put it there in the first place. Now it's gone all metastatic into the regional fabric.

Airport Rail.

Reduction in excessively-wide car lanes in favor of literally anything else... [wider] sidewalks, bike lanes, rain gardens.

Better rail connections to other Eastern cities.

Reduced (and enforced) speed limits to 20 mph within the city (although the reduced-width lanes would largely accomplish this automatically).

Making the Wabash Tunnel bikes only and/or restoring pedestrian access through the Liberty Pubes.

Some separated bike paths that aren't just cannibalized rail rights-of-way meandering through the woods but actually more direct routes than the cars get, like in Europe.

Modernized rebirths of the Knoxville and Penn inclines.

Neutering the Bigelow Boulevard meme road by adding speed limits, adding more crossings, narrowing lanes, etc.

Moving 376 somewhere else.

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We will never have good transit as long as the Feds keep bending over backwards to accommodate and subsidize car owners.

oH nO gAs PrIcEs ArE jUsT aS hIgH aS tHeY wErE uNdEr BuSh!

And then Amtrak Joe opens up the oil reserves with his tail between his legs.

>28X costs less than $3 and takes you to the airport. What are you trying to improve? Or do you just think trains are cool?

Capacity. Both on the vehicle and at the stops. You can't base a proper airport connection off of 200 square feet of sidewalk.

I agree that Robinson might not be a good stop location, but I think that's more a problem with Robinson than with trains. Robinson is just... a mistake that happens to have the only Ikea in the area.

Airport rail is usually real rail, not light rail. Choo choo.

It probably is. We are in an era of people purposefully saying stupid things online because it generates outrage/disgust/whatever and all of the people correcting them (and all of the bona fide idiots unironically defending the bait) generates engagement for the algorithms.

Oh, wow. Two posts displaying the shortcomings of Google Maps in one night. Local knowledge wins again.

If you've ever seen a government computer system, coded by some "money-saving" low-bid contractor, doing it by hand is probably faster. At least you don't need to physically store all of the papers...

You forgot 5-10.

Also, is this round trips, or one-way trips?

I have a hypothesis that DoorDash drivers specifically avoid parking within lines because it quells their conscience a bit compared to parking within the line and not paying the meter.

Also, a lot of people insist on driving a car-and-a-half. In my opinion, these people should just be forced to pay for two spots like a fat person on a plane, but I'm not dictator of Pittsburgh yet.

And speaking of Doordash, all Pittsburgh or any other urbanized municipality would need to do to rake in ticket revenue would be to focus all of their ticketing efforts from 4-8 PM instead of randomly throughout the day (including residential streets near restaurants), but the workers are probably resistant to working evenings and I don't really think there's any political will to go after parking freeloaders because they're bRiNgInG tHeIr bUsInEsS.

This was a logic behind the self-driving AI startups.

Unfortunately, it turns out that cars suddenly derping out for no reason at 70 mph on the highway might be an even bigger problem.

Who downvoted this story lol?

Pickup truck drivers expand to fill up the space they're given.

People who park on Penn Avenue typically aren't the kind of people who like walking more than 20 feet from their car to their destination.

Google actually does report elevation changes (and they can be sort of seen in Streetview), but this is still very good advice, since people don't usually think to pay attention to it.

If both the job and your accommodations are in the actual city and not the suburbs (or worse... Butler County), there's a good chance you'll be fine with no car, though a bicycle might be nice for additional independence from the whims of our spotty transit.

I recommend going on Google maps and using the distance tools in conjunction with Streetview to scope out routes to work, the grocery store, the post office, and any other trips you might be making regularly. Also, check some bus schedules for the neighborhood on the Pittsburgh Regional Transit website. Then you can decide for yourself if you need a car.

I would posit that the North Hills owes its entire existence to sick braindead planning.

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This is a good suggestion. Don't listen to the people who want to live in a hole and Tweet society into oblivion.