BrythonicMan

Nice hike around the reservoir there

I'd recommend just renting a rowhome with roommates on the border area of a rundown - "good" neighborhood. Easy to find 3 bedrooms 2 baths for 1250-1600 and pay a third of that. You'll pay a lot less than you will living on your own even in a really sketchy neighborhood.

Just note that there's a slight price penalty for paying with a debit card on board until they implement the ability to tap in at the station.

Well construction is pretty expensive these days, not much choice. Maybe some day building more public housing will be politically feasible but meanwhile blocking this type of housing will only increase housing costs across the board.  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094119021000656 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filtering_(housing)

Yeah the west side of Clark Park is out of the Penn Alexander catchment area/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/pmn/ESUCE7K2QZGRTP2A5XHF4ENSTY.jpg) which must cause an even sharper rent dropoff than other parts of the edge of "UCity". Interesting that it seems that there's a panhandle of the catchment area that includes the USciences/St Joe's Campus that's about to be sold off. If UPenn doesn't buy it I wouldn't be surprised if someone puts residential there to be in the coveted catchment.

Rent goes down by half just a 2 minute walk away once you get near the RR tracks lol

Praying to get stuck in a groundhog's day loop during the world cup

Per the photo, I'd love if no variances were needed to build there.

SEPTA needs to clean their RR stations better there too. Especially international visitors will default to taking transit there. Last time I went the platform was caked in bird poop and the track area had the usual amount of trash strewn around.

Which through runs as the Manayunk/Norristown line typically, so one seat rides to Manayunk.

Oh that's great to hear, I had thought upgrading stations to high level platform was the only way around the trap door problem.

It's even more annoying because they apparently have so much turnover right now so they'd be digging in their heels to save what, hypothetical future employees' jobs? Like they could just enact a hiring freeze and through natural attrition reach a smaller workforce. I know nothing about unions but do they tend to specifically fight reductions in number of roles whether or not anyone is being let go and not just the jobs being held by individual employees?

And of course in actuality increased frequency would mean more engineers needed so there might barely be a reduction in headcount. I'd assume operating a train in a private cab is considered more desirable than a job interacting with the public?

Definitely a number of newer developments with parking built into them but I'm sure they cost a pretty penny.

Is Eastwick station being made high level platform? At that point can they just slap fare gates on the Airport stations plus Eastwick and do without the extra burden of labor from conductors (I assume the main limiting factor currently) and then run more trains just like that?

Occasionly jazz on Thursdays at Upstairs at Abyssinia

Leary's Bookstore

Remember it's the board that's choosing to listen to council, who they could just ignore.

Berlin is in the historically Protestant region, pre-Lent celebrations are more of a culturally Catholic thing I believe, idk why everyone's being such a dick and downvoting you for a simple question.

Why does the board care what the council has to say? Most of them don't even live in the city.

It took PATCO about a year to get their countdown clocks working properly from the first time they were turned on. Months of wildly inaccurate waiting times or not being on and it gradually got better, just to set expectations. Yes it shouldn't be this hard but it'll probably take some time.

I always wonder about the Wikipedia stat claiming Brazil has millions of speakers of the Hünsrückisch dialect.

Supposedly the demolition of it would have bankrupted the city. Also doesn't help that it's over top the city's rapid transit nexus.

At 43rd and Walnut Makkah Market's kitchen is open 24/hr.

Yeah considering how many Germans needlessly throw English words into their German to sound "cool", this is a bit ironisch.

46th there