> The developer has agreed to limit the size of trucks allowed to make deliveries on 19th and to provide a space in the underground parking garage for those deliveries.

One of the things people in opposition to road diets often cite is “what about the delivery trucks?!” This part of the article is a good reminder that not everything has to be delivered via 18 wheeler (I mean it’s literally impossible in many older European cities), and, in fact, the city and other areas would be better off if we didn’t have giant trucks traversing our streets.

Gonna make a bet that you’d meet heavy resistance from suburban drivers along City Avenue if you tried to take a lane or two for mass transit. Sounds like a great idea though.

What happens when you call them? They just take down the info and send someone out?

You have it twisted - people that park and drive like assholes don’t give a fuck about their fellow residents and neighborhoods.

110%. Always cars parked in the left turn lane at 16th and Oregon well into the morning, way past any “parking limited” time.

Remember when people gave me shit for complaining about a giant tent being pitched at this very intersection? Turns out when you allow a corner to become a congregation point for drugs, crime follows. Who woulda thought?!

Part of the reason, yes. KJ and Squilla also just don’t give a shit and let that particular area languish despite being a prime commercial corridor.

You’re what…?

Shooting at Broad and Snyder. About 15 cop cars flew down Shunk and 15th Street and saw them stopped down between Ritner and Wolf

Maybe now she can issue a directive that her officers actually enforce traffic laws.

Corrupt to the end. He absolutely planned that shit.

I dunno man, I can appreciate where you’re coming from but I just don’t think it’s as easy as you’re making it sound to plant the national guard here as a crime deterrent. Who pays for it? The city, the state, the feds? If we’re gonna do it in Philly, why not other cities with worse homicide rates?

I’m not looking for a perfect solution, I just think the threshold for mobilizing the national guard is (rightfully) pretty high, and if violence that has been going on for half a century was considered below that threshold, we’d have seen it already. We already know things that will work (like, hey, maybe some gun laws so a teenager doesn’t have easy enough access that they can blast someone they get in a fight with), but we’ve decided in this country that we’re different and what has worked literally everywhere else just won’t work here (but no one can really explain why it won’t work).

So what happens when the national guard inevitably leaves? Or should we just have a military presence in our city in perpetuity? We have a police force for a reason, fix that before we start having the fucking army standing on our corners like we live in some failed state. (Though - I will admit I do sometimes feel like we are headed there, nationwide, with the pure dysfunction and lack of accountability in government.)

Most of the shootings are targeted, so unless they’re gonna pull detective duty and/or stay indefinitely, I don’t know what a temporary deterrence is going to do to actually solve the problem instead of just kicking the can down the road.

If gangs start targeting randos or something, sure. Otherwise I’m not sure what having a military presence in a major US city will do other than make things worse. They’re not gonna actually have an police powers so they’ll be glorified security guards with high powered rifles. Made sense when there was rampant property crime during the riots, not so much now.

It’s been a while since I’ve been in there, but I just looked and google maps street view actually has the trail! Might be helpful if you don’t get a lot of responses.

Why is it ridiculous? That’s not what the quote I picked out of the article is saying at all. The point is that, on average, it costs more to educate children in Philadelphia, where a large percentage of the population is living in poverty and thus facing a number of externalities that complicate things, than a wealthy suburb.

From the Inquirer

> The district spends close to the state average per student, but when adjusted for student need, it ranks below many districts. Philadelphia’s weighted, per-student expenditure — a need-adjusted measure of what districts actually spend — is $10,796 per student; the state average is $13,688. Lower Merion, by comparison, spells $26,362 per student.

> Because many Philadelphia students require special education services, are homeless, live in foster care or in distressed communities, the cost of educating them is high, Monson said. City students often lack “things that should be basic in order to be prepared for education. We have to supplement in order to make up for that.”

Hard to fund a functional school district when federal policies siphoned away money to suburban sprawl instead of supporting the cities that built this nation. It’s a sad state of affairs.

Nah they didn’t move, they always had that location. No idea why the other closed.

It’s also littered with needle caps which is lovely. I will say that the Passyunk Avenue BID cleaning seems to have been extended somewhat at least to Snyder and maybe even to Jackson so that’s been nice.

Cars over everything man, haven’t you heard.

They can build them out of shag carpet for all I care, anything is better than a surface parking lot in Center City.

The twist no one saw coming.

Betcha it was related to the short burst of boom car nonsense I heard last night around 10-10:30. These “people” are a scourge on the city, and judging from the perps in situations like the fatal crash in Wildwood last year, the perps might not even be from the city or area.

Yep. Go check out recent threads about Temple and you’ll see people legitimately saying they’re a problem.