Glad to see r/pittsburgh revealing their true colors once again. You can claim you care about the environment and reducing car dependency all you want, but the downvotes my comments receive and the opposition to expanding rail and improving public transit that plagues this sub shows that when push comes to shove, you all don’t really care about the environment that you claim to at a time when we are entering a climate emergency. Enjoy your precious little bike route, I hope killing off another potential corridor for freight/passenger rail and the added traffic this line’s abandonment will add to local roads is worth it to you. Once this stuff is abandoned it’ll be very hard to get back if and when the need arises.

I don’t see how ripping out rail infrastructure and forcing more freight traffic to trucks on our already overwhelmed road network is going to help with climate change. I also don’t appreciate (as outlined in the article) pandemic relief money being used on a vanity trail project instead of to businesses and families in need or helping keep existing infrastructure and public transit operations afloat.

Yaay, ripping up more valuable infrastructure so some yuppies can have another place to ride their bikes. The American trend of plowing through neighborhoods for highways and tearing out valuable freight/passenger rail corridors for bike trails has got to stop if we truly want to reduce our carbon emissions and environmental impact.

r/nottheonion

With all due respect to retail workers, I can’t imagine the chaos and bullshit UPMC workers (or any healthcare workers for that matter) have to deal with on a constant basis is worth a minor pay increase over stocking shelves and bagging groceries…and I know first hand working retail is hell.

I don’t even bother setting mine.

And even if the highway did get backed up, the answer is to expand transit options that don’t have to sit in traffic and take more cars off the roads, not dedicate more infrastructure (e.g. HOV lanes) exclusively to automobiles.

Or in my case the times I’m up that way and have more occupants in the vehicle it’s outside of the HOV’s hours running in that direction anyways. Even during the height of rush hour I-279 just doesn’t get backed up enough to warrant the existence of an HOV lane.

I was hoping back in 2019 or so when they overhauled the stretch of I-279 from Ross to the North Shore that the HOV lanes would be modified to permanently be for transit use. Preserving them for the 1 or 2 personal automobiles that use them each day (especially during COVID) instead of for buses was such a wasted opportunity. Having the buses that utilize those lanes run all day long instead of just a few rush hour trips would do a lot to improve transit access to parts of the North Hills without a substantial investment in new infrastructure - that can come later.

They should have been doing this from the moment Fake Doyle won the Republican primary.

Seems almost every day another location is shuttering its doors. As others have said the quality and service have taken a nosedive in recent years. Last went to one in 2015 and waited nearly 2 hours for food (it wasn’t very busy) and when our food did arrive it was cold. Haven’t returned since.

One look at your profile is enough to tell me nobody takes you seriously. Enjoy selling those sex toys!

r/idiottrumpsupporters

You got my vote!

Then stop complaining about having a long commute! :)

Carnegie Coffee Company and Coffee, Etc (Castle Shannon) come to mind.

Where is your girlfriend commuting from? If she’s somewhere in the South Hills it’ll probably be cheaper to park at a T station (parking is free at most of them) then pay the fare to ride into and out of town, but if she’s commuting from somewhere else (such as Coraopolis where your flair says you’re located) she’s best off parking in one of the garages on the North Side near the T there and then riding the rest of the way. Alternatively she could take a chance on one of the buses that passes near where she lives on the way into town and bypass both parking garages and riding the T entirely.

It’s been “coming soon” since 2019 so I’m not holding my breath on that being ready any time soon.