If you’re supposed to call a doctor if you have one for 4 or more hours, that building is beyond medical intervention.

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Yeah if I’m out around that time of the afternoon, my guard is up even more than it would be at 2am on a poorly lit block in a sketchy neighborhood

Land taxes are not abated for the property, it’s the taxes that are suppose to be paid on the property that are abated for 10 years. Philly taxes the land and the property separately and the tax abatement only impacts the taxes property owners pay for the taxes on the property.

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It's doing the same thing as Philly Voters: getting as far away from Jeff Brown as possible.

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I’m saying that the taxes on this property are nonexistent for the next 10 years. So OCs statement about the taxes being good is not terribly accurate.

Patco has 7 foot tall gates at the stations, yes. I imagine it's not really viable to have them at the street though since they look pretty "indoor"

Bus is superior in every way except time. If you can budget more time to get to and from where you are going or coming from take the bus every time.

Patco doesn't have them at the actual station entrances do they? As much as I take SEPTA I've never been on Patco at all. I meant that entry from the street should be completely barred to non-paying customers.

I am in agreement that police at the stations and walking the trains is needed/would do wonders. Whenever I see Septa PD sitting in cars outside a subway station I wonder wtf is the point. I was just thinking of a solution that might be easier to implement and wouldn't impact their operating budget as much.

They should just make it one lane and allow street parking. It would make driving on it a little slower and a lot less white knuckle and people who want to drive somewhere before exercising instead of, I dunno, just exercising on the way, can do that.

i would be fine if they closed one lane to traffic and let people park on the road. but that will somehow be a crazier suggestion than preventing people from parking on the grass.

Last week on the trolley there was a couple up front vaping together (I was at the end of the car so I didn't smell anything). Driver did nothing about it. I was very disappointed 'cause I've gone from ridding the El every day to riding the trolley just to avoid the second-hand smoke. So, it can happen, but at least for now it's notably rare.

Everyone on the bus would have to be smoking. Even then it's unlikely it would cause someone not smoking to test positive.

Someone please make a Brooklyn 99 type show about SEPTA drivers.

Septa cops aren't the same as real cops. Septa cops don't do their job because they're a part of one of the most underfunded transportation authorities on the east coast, real Philly cops don't do their jobs because the entire FoP is corrupt as fuck

Bus drivers will tell you, the high school kids are the worst. From 2-4p sucks

Your comment tickled the shit out of me; "alighted", "desist", etc.

Like Patco? Doesn't super work for them, but they do have a couple of cops that go through the Ferry Ave stop every morning waking up the homeless people and sending them on their way.

I don't know what I'm trying to get at here... I guess having cops do something can help?

Smoking anything on a train of any kind is psychopathic, doesn't matter what it is.

And all too frequently fatal. There have been three or four deaths at the chicane up by East Falls in the last couple of years, including one accident that shredded the car and left the engine like 100 yards from what was left of the cabin.

WHAT is going on with that tree ?

Owning a commercial drivers license (like these bus drivers) they are subject to federal drug screenings under the DOTs authority. Regardless of local regulations.