Yeah those fries are seasoned so well that ketchup is almost a disservice.

No Whataburger is a south thing, like Texas and Florida.

The bad news: We don't really have a lot of presence in food chains, especially in the city. The suburbs have more.

The good news: That's because we have outstanding Ma & Pa places all over that beat the pants off of chains, and the chains just can't compete. I worked on the south side for a while and loved Over the Bar.

It better be no-fault. One time a deer hit me while I was stopped waiting for its herd to cross the road. I guess in the dark it saw the headlights and tail lights and tried to sneak in between and hit head-first into my driver-side rear door.

> I think one of the coolest things about PA is just the number of trees Pittsburgh has, it sounds silly but it's a very green city.

Yeah you can thank the topography for that. It's hard to build on ground that's almost vertical.

I remember the Stadium Series Pens-Flyers game in Heinz Field a while back. I had gloves, hat, an extra layer. I thought I was prepared.

I was wrong. I never felt so cold in my life. Had to leave early because my wife was so cold she was in physical pain. I would definitely double-glove, triple-sock, long underwear, 3 layer minimum. Go full Randy Parker.

I don't get daytime running lights. Why not be on by default, regular beams and tail lights both? So if you forget, at least you're safe.

I want a yellow keystone on a blue background with the colors matching Sweden's flag better since that's what the colors are supposed to reference. If you didn't know it's supposed to be Sweden's colors, it means the current hues failed at their only job.

I grew up there, but haven't been in a long time so I can't speak for dining and such. Other than the train rides, here's some stuff to see:

• Jim Thorpe's monument on the east side. It's on 903 past the main part of town on your left. Olympic gold medalist in the pentathlon and decathlon, NFL hall-of-famer (so much that it's his statue at the front doors to the Hall of Fame), Major League Baseball player, pro basketball player, it's hard to argue that he wouldn't be the greatest athlete of all time. Nothing to do with the town except that here's buried there, though.
• Downtown, go down Broadway and on the right is the old County Jail. It's cool for the tours and ghost stories. Charles Neast, the old Sheriff, went to my church when I was a kid (probably died around 1990) and he swore the phantom handprint was legit.
• Also downtown, Race St has a quaint European vibe and is filled with little shops.
• The Asa Packer and Harry Packer mansions on Packer Hill at the bottom of Center Ave have tours and are pretty cool. In winter the street might be one-way for safety reasons (it's a pretty steep hill) so watch out.
• Outside of downtown 209, Flagstaff has a scenic overlook of the town. Was a night club and restaurant at various times. I have no idea what's up there nowadays.
• If you're into creepy, there's an awesome cemetery in the heights on South Ave next to the Lutheran church that you can walk through and see the monuments.
• If you're into hiking and risk-taking, you're definitely not allowed in Glen Onoko Falls. It's closed off and too dangerous. Do not cross the river and take a left off 903 to Lehigh Gorge State Park at the bottom of the trail.
• For less risky, but a bit more boring and less scenic hiking, the historic Switchback Trail is in the heights, and can be accessed off Center Ave, IIRC.

"It's another... PECO Power Play!"

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No idea. I haven't seen it before.

Yeah, you just paid some random stranger. They don't collect tolls in person anymore.

Back in the early days of Pennsylvania, PA effectively ended at the mountains. To the west was the frontier wilderness and didn't really get settled until centuries afterward. Even now it's basically Pittsburgh, Erie, State College, and a whole lot of nothing. So I'd argue central PA is east of Blue Mountain.

Most of the cities in that list don't have to deal with the things Pittsburgh does.

Singapore is flat, mostly built up after cars were around and is close to the equator and so it doesn't have the freeze/thaw cycle.

Denver, while high up, is dry and with the exception of the western outskirts mostly flat and able to be gridded pretty cleanly.

Barcelona is ancient and not made for cars, but has a very temperate climate and so it also doesn't have that freeze/thaw thing going on.

Warsaw's flat. Melbourne's kinda flat.

Oslo - well you have me there.

Not a geographer at all. Just a software engineer.

• Topography- not only are surfaces not level, but also doesn't leave a lot of space for both streets and sidewalks, so it's hard to renovate without cutting off lots of access
• Climate - routinely pulverizing sidewalks and streets
• Topology - 5 and 7 street intersections make for weird sidewalk layouts. Squares and right angles don't really exist in this city.

51, Saw mill run, and 837 are the reasons I don't live south of the Mon anymore. 7 years later, I don't regret it for one second.

Yes, you have.

As long as you stay in the zone you can just get on and off no ticket or anything. Just like an escalator in a building or something. The free zone is everything north of the Mon, so the first stop that needs a pass is Station Square, and the last stop that's free is the First Avenue station.

Here's the list of stops in the free zone:

• First Avenue
• Steel Plaza
• Wood St
• Gateway
• North Side (PNC Park)
• Allegheny (Heinz Field/Acupuncture Stadium)

The inbound/outbound charge thing is confusing, so I think of it like this: You're charged to enter or exit the T at a station south of the Mon. You're not charged north of the Mon.

At least, last time I used the T, this was the case.