It's weird I remember at all sorts of public events growing up (early 2000s) like parades or shows there would always be people handing out leaflets for dumb shit like white supremacists, naturalists, conspiracies, but no one ever paid any mind and would just throw it away... now if that sort of thing happened it would end up in the news.

I said Rail not subway. What does subway have to do with rail. two different thing. There is a rail line in north philly not a subway line.

Amtrak, NJ transit matter when someone coming far from the suburbs. If you live in Lancaster, Coatesville there no Septa rail so you would need to take Amtrak unless you want to drive.

A trauma center means you get the highest level of care. Penn Hospital is not a level 1 trauma center so you're referencing something that has nothing to do with it. The advantage of West Philly is that CHOP is right there so if a kid has a medical incident they're close by. Medical care is important when you have large crowds as someone is going to get hurt and easier to just bring them to where they can get care instead of the ambulance having to figure out what going on and possibly rerouting to somewhere they can get care.

People don’t even know what belongs in recycling and what doesn’t (hint: your cardboard pizza box isn’t recyclable).

I feel you man. The apartment next to me never does their trash right and ends up having trash piled up in a small mountain on the sidewalks. It gets so bad that people in my apartment had to clean parts of it just to use the sidewalks.

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2800 reported cases. I wouldn't be surprised if the actual number is 20x that.

Religious leaders aren't exactly known for being able to make that distinction.

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Should not this be simply the decision of the community whose lives would be disrupted. Wth 🤦‍♀️

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The land already has an abatement. It will have that abatement no matter what does or doesn't go there, so its immaterial on the city side.

It’s terrible.

not only that the people that hate things are the vocal ones. Plenty of people are perfectly fine with the idea of an arena in Chinatown.

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clergy is how people get things done. When a politican wants to get elected one of the people he convinces is your local clergy so that clergy member can advocate for you. It the same thing with projectors. You might say "did you hear Pastor so-so talk about how great that new project would be for our community".

Listen in to my Philly Police/Fire Scanner, starts to get good this time of week! https://youtube.com/live/UK8TMraClFI

... Or Camden

I'm in Kensington, you'd be surprised by the number of people who would tell me to put it out anyways.

I get the 40% for vendors stuff, but why is the Black Clergy getting involved? That is very weird to me and makes me skeptical about what is being said behind closed doors. To me, idk why any leader of any faith would get involved in a debacle about the location of a sports arena. They could be advocating for more affordable housing, cheaper public transit fares, public ed, etc, not the construction of a sports complex. That itself rings red flags 🚩

Irregular started writing it backwards. It’s still dumb

Where were you during the last three trashpocalypses where collection just straight up didn't come until 2-3 days later? I mean, in Kensington, laws are just guidelines anyways, but that was a little much.

Even then I didn't have this bad of a problem lol.

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It's people. I'm 100% on that. I've assembled the neighbors on many other trash initiatives, including the "don't try to recycle pizza boxes, you idiots, the ratties will come and run over your feet when you leave the building" initiative.