Bus does not fuck around. People do not smoke or act foolish on it. It’s a great option to get to or from Center City. Awful to pass through. Like south Phila to Temple on a bus sucks. Must take sub.

I have actually encountered zero people smoking on the bus, and I take the bus all the time.

Maybe there are people smoking on buses and I'm just missing it because I mostly take the same few buses within Center City and rarely any later than mid-evening?

I rarely take the subway/EL but the few times I've been on them since the pandemic there is always somebody smoking on the train or in the station.

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What bothers me the most are crappy cars that are parked on the grass potentially leaking oil or something else.

They need to put large boulders or high curbs to stop the parking. I think the rope is temporary so they can remove it for the regatta events.

I understand how supply and demand works to that extent. I’m not even making a full argument against the tower in the post specially, I was relaying a common grievance. I do believe still though, every new build single family home isn’t a luxury house. There are tons of new builds at varying price points. It is possible to build —and they should be subsidized even — accommodations that are more affordable. So my comment, and I assume the one I was sort of defending, shouldn’t be taken as a shunning of new housing. Just the way that it’s being done, and who it is affecting.

Now I’m a little rusty here, but I believe that the reason that Philadelphia has the housing that it does, was that during the Industrial Revolution factories and other industry in the area needed workers, and they needed their workers to be able to make it to work without too much burden. Along came rowhouses, which were made to be more dense, though rather quickly built, accommodations for the working class family. There has been a shift in the nature of our work, but the existence of the new blue collar and the increase in price point of accommodations in a non-linear fashion, means that the actual blue collar (or more frequently I suppose ) non-professional employed people have a much harder time than they did previously.

Let me know if I’m off base on any of this.

So, what change are you going to make? What will you do as a citizen of Philadelphia to make it better. I won’t accept Reddit comments as a worthy answer. I’m not talking thoughts and complaints, That’s pretty useless. What will you actually do?

Can you stop the gun violence, the homelessness and the out of control drug addiction? Many make it their lives work all across the country. What do you offer that would be different? How about other quality of life issues? Street Repairs, subway improvements, affordable housing, improved schools, reformed police department and crime in general? What is your plan and how to pay for it? I’m not even getting into the detailed stuff. I assume if you have answers to the major issues the rest will take care of itself. Remember, city workers are regular people, just like you. Some are great and some are horrible. They will fight back, refuse to work or just be generally shitty at their jobs. How will you change that. Which of these things are you going to take on and fix?

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New housing is generally luxury cause it’s expensive to build. A developer isn’t going to go through all the leg work of getting a building approved and designed and then during construction go for a lower end project.

When we build new housing the supply goes up lowering demand for other existing housing, making other units more affordable. Over time new housing becomes more affordable as the new amenities show age.

One of the big problems with the housing crisis is citizens don’t understand this and will oppose new housing cause it’s luxury. Meanwhile nothing gets built cause building affordable housing isn’t profitable, like in San Francisco. It’s annoying that we see what happens when we fight new housing. We get a California style housing crises. But still people here seem to want that to happen in Philly and oppose new housing.

This is public land - you have an equal right to take (and chuck) this sign as he did to put it there….

It’s really amazing how we have 0 car free streets.

10th street in Chinatown, South Street from 6th to the Delaware, Headhouse square, 13th from chestnut to locust, walnut and the other cross streets by rittenhouse, the RTM underpass…

There are so many obvious streets that would have a dramatically improved QoL and business without cars.

Even Burlington VT, a city of <50k has the car free commercial street, Church Street.

Why can’t we even have this conversation in Philadelphia?

3.2% transfer tax is nominal compared to the 1.4% annual property tax.

The streets department has concrete barriers, not the Philadelphia parks and rec. This is what they have available. They’re trying their best.

There’s a transfer tax on the transaction that would almost a million dollar for the penthouse.

Fair enough. Bollards with a chain would look pretty nice there. Good call.

Thanks for the flippant response. City Council deliberately creates quagmires and given their problems with bribery the FBI should open a second headquarters here. The Mayors office is equally problematic ever since Frank Rizzo engaged in a coup.

Its easier to make change from the outside and running for office often makes personal matters subject to public scrutiny.

I honestly wouldn't care that much if you could actually make eye contact with the drivers and know that they saw you and they're waving you past. But it's always some fucking nissan altima with blacked out limo tint, but you can still see the phone screen in their hand through it!

As a fellow avid cyclist from EF, same. Driving or biking by the trail every day and seeing cars on the grass evokes a visceral rage with in me to the point that I want to damage one. My therapist says that I shouldn’t care but…

ENOUGH WITH PHILLY FUQS PARKING WHEREVER THEY SEE FIT. NO YOU CAN NOT PARK ON GRASS, NO NOT ON SIDEWALKS EITHER.

everyone text 911 when you see this happening. I’m the cause of many tickets around here. I rat on people parked on the sidewalk.

With a 10 year property tax abatement, not really.

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Driving down Kelly Drive makes me feel like Malibu Barbie In a drop top convertible.

There is a mayoral race and lots of positions available on city council. Why don’t you run and fix everything. You do realize that’s how it works, right? Real easy to criticize from the peanut gallery.

Cops already don’t give a shit about violent crime.

I got side swiped on Kelly drive this weekend. My first car accident! I was so afraid pulling over into the “median” to get the other drivers info because everyone was driving out of control including the person who hit me. I’m so pissed off.

I saw a “fix the damn potholes” one. I can get behind that.