All groundhogs are marmots, all marmots are squirrels, and all squirrels are rodents.

Big funny looking rodents that wage war on my squash every year.

Which is also in the squirrel family, to educate/confuse people further.

They already set rope up like this once, and it was either taken down for an event and never replaced, or just torn out by people who wanted to drive there anyway. This is a joke. People need to get those $100 tickets the minute they drive over the curb. No warning. If you don't know that it's illegal and unacceptable to drive your car across the grass and multiuse trail, I have no pity for you.

I went by one night and a DJ set up by the Angels with a massive PA system. I could hear the bass thumping all the way up to Manayunk.

The past couple years, the park ranger just sat in his car and drove all across the place when cars pulled in and gave them a warning. There was no real penalty.

There is ALWAYS parking available in Fountain Green. People are just too damn lazy to walk an extra 100 yards and have to wait for the light to change.

For the premier residential tower in the city, it's pretty bland. Crazy to think that the neighbors hired their own architect to influence the design to look like this.

The reality is, this is still Philadelphia, and politics is politics, so we're not going to get a perfect candidate, even with this wide open field. But I think she came out swinging with a very high standard and she might have a hard time living up to that during the campaign unless she really steps up her debate/interview prep and retail politics. She's essentially been running for mayor ever since she took office as Controller, so she should really be on better footing at this point in time.

I was in her corner for a while, but after talking to people with insight into how her office was run, seeing her pay corrupt John Street for an endorsement, and watching her disappointing Philadelphia Citizen interview, I'm looking for a next best choice. I'm just not convinced who that might be yet.

She came to the interview unprepared and just repeated platitudes about how amazing the city is and her job as Mayor as being enthusiastic and getting people to work together. It was totally devoid of specifics even though Nutter, her former boss, was pretty easy on her.

They have a variety of excellent hazies and their fruited sours are popular.

I wouldn't be so sure that they'll move. It will cost them a fortune to move and it will be very difficult to find a comparable space at a comparable price.

Many people in the area have no interest in the type of offerings on Main Street. Wissahickon Brewery attracts different clientele, including people from across the city who still thumb their nose at the idea of going out in Manayunk.

What are your "going out" options at Ridge & Midvale? There's In Riva and Black Squirrel. I've gotten sick eating mediocre food at LeBus twice and bought moldy bread another time, and it's not exactly a place you'd go to to grab drinks with friends anyway.

I felt embarrassed the couple years as a kid in the 90s when I tried to use jawn in my lexicon. It was forced then, and I was a city kid. It's really forced now when transplants from Colorado are throwing it around.

They have regular pies, grandma pies with a denser dough with sesame seeds, and Detroit style.

I would love their grandma style if they distributed the cheese better and used a regular tomato sauce. As it is, the middle slices are basically tomato pie, and sometimes the outer slices are 90% dough. And the sauce is really acidic.

They have a normal ordering system now. That shit was obnoxious though. The pizza is still overrated. Drizzling Mike's hot honey on a pizza does not elevate it to greatness.

Yeah that light is long and annoying. That would be my only reason for avoiding the cell phone lot, but I'd rather dick around on my phone while waiting in my car and not have to worry about the slim chance of getting ticketed or rear ended.

Honeywell doesn't exactly have the best track record for containing environmental hazards:

>The United States Environmental Protection Agency states that no corporation has been linked to a greater number of Superfund toxic waste sites than has Honeywell.[184] Honeywell ranks 44th in a list of US corporations most responsible for air pollution, releasing more than 4.25 million kg (9.4 million pounds) of toxins per year into the air.[185]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell

And their impact is probably still being underestimated:

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/environment/2020/11/10/honeywell-superfund-lawsuit-nj-over-edgewater-nj-and-hudson-river-contamination/6224306002/

You don't have to--it's just another data point on the chart of performative politics.

She also made a meaningless statement in support of the "Save the Meadows" campaign at FDR Park, but took no actions to actually push PPR to modify their plan. She did the bare minimum to get people to publicly thank her and profess their support for her.

With so many former councilpeople running, the Inquirer should have a field day with comparing statements to actions while in office, but I don't have a lot of faith this is going to actually happen. Washington Ave. is a prime example. How many candidates are going to proclaim their support for Vision Zero and improved road safety, despite having done nothing to push back on other councilpeople who were watering down safety measures?

That's a story that's been overshadowed by the venue gaffe. Gym has taken a very anti-development stance publicly, and yet she's courting an association of the largest builders in the city. I'm pro-development, and a realist, so I don't see a fundamental problem with attending their event. But if you're styling yourself as an anti-development social justice warrior and are running for office on that basis, attending the GBCA annual reception at club that honors divisive far right-wing demagogues really calls into question your sincerity.

Her council tenure is illustrative. She hasn't seemed particularly interested in legislating as a councilperson. She used her position occasionally as a bully pulpit, with regular retreats into the background. We're ending an 8 year experiment with a Mayor who's been uninterested in governing. We need someone who is going to get the city back on track and focus on the nuts and bolts, and bring people into the administration with the same mindset.

What's your point? Crashes aren't called accidents anymore because they're largely avoidable. Accident implies inevitability. The infrastructure needs to be designed so that the conflict between different types of road users doesn't happen in the first place.

I've made the same post as yours in this sub many times, so I get it. I agree the law isn't the prime cause of the spike in recklessness, but it almost certainly is related.

Even if cops did want to do their jobs, we can't expect them to get all reckless drivers off the road just by observing the 1% of the time they're egregiously breaking the law instead of being able to respond to the 100% of the time they're breaking the law with fake or obscured tags.

People want to look at it like it's only one thing or the other, but the truth is in the middle.

Not sure why you're getting downvoted: https://www.inquirer.com/crime/delaware-fake-license-plates-philadelphia-crime-20221118.html

The inability for police to pull over unregistered cars, uninspected cars, and cars with obscured license plates removes a great deal of risk for unlicensed drivers to operate vehicles—drivers who shouldn't be behind the wheel for a multitude of reasons.

I see cars with obscured license plates flat out run solid red lights for blocks on a near daily basis.

It is a well-meaning law meant to address the real problem of pulling drivers over for all of the reasons you listed as pretext for racial profiling, but it has some very real unintended consequences. People respond to incentives.

Couple that with a soft strike by the police, and it's chaos. Because I've seen those cars run red lights right in front of cops who don't do a damn thing about it anyway.