How can you hate the 15? You take that back.

Yup. Lyft/Uber makes sense from home to the airport, and taxi makes sense on the way back. Same with 30th St.

I seem to have had the opposite experience of almost everyone in this thread. I exclusively take cabs from airports because there's no waiting around - they're right there! And 99 times out of 100 it's a pleasant ride home. Sometimes they ask me which way I want to go, which is annoying, but that's about it. I live in Fairmount, though, which puts them in the flat rate zone.

Lyft, on the other hand, has been a complete shitshow. On multiple occasions, just recently, I've had to stop drivers (who were ignoring the directions the phone was shouting at them) from doing things like going West on 76 when they should be going East, etc. Or driving erratically, or having an extra person in the car and then stopping for gas and that other person, who kept trying to engage me in conversation, lighting up a cigarette as they pumped gas. It is to the point where I pretty much never want to take Lyft in Philly again. It isn't nearly as bad in other cities.

I'm glad that the taxi person lobbied to keep the taxis at Zone 5. I absolutely loathe crossing traffic to get to the taxi.

Or, hear me out, reduce it to one lane in each direction and add a berm in the median. Or, even better, a light rail that connected City Hall to Manayunk.

> Are people going to drive their cars through these chains?

Yes. Yes they are.

Just the other day I was shocked and amazed to see a Jersey-barrier walkway erected next to a sidewalk that was closed down due to construction. It reminded me of how on top of that sort of thing they are in NYC.

Then I ran into a corner with two of the sidewalks just straight-up closed, and remembered where I was.

I just saw the video - it is finally up - and he's not really confrontational at all. He's asking uncomfortable questions, to be sure, but he's cool as a cucumber. Helen is the one that gets hepped up.

You said "all of the videos are there" and called the person asking about it ignorant for not bothering to look. So, not wanting to be an ignoramus, I looked. You don't need to be hostile to everyone.

It's fine if these things take time.

The Gym video is not on that youtube page.

I have nostalgia for the heyday of Bad Boy pumping out the hits, but Diddy was never a very good rapper and a quick scan of a recent performance tells me that he is now even worse.

Nobody, because it won't be accessible to the general public. I live in Fairmount and have spent time at Lemon Hill and didn't even know about the Sedgley Porter House since it is always surrounded by cars and tucked into a corner. It's a cute building and maybe could have been turned into something cool at the existing location, but this really does feel like a waste of money.

I suppose if you want to be spittin' distance from a climbin' pole, that's the place to be.

I love to see it! I grew up on Long Island and my town had its own railroad station that I would use to go into the city, and it was awesome. Before automated ticket vending machines the inside would be bustling with activity, but these days it is mostly closed. I hope this station becomes an active hub once again.

I like how Rebecca is second only to Cherelle Parker in terms of how local her funding is. And look how much of Helen Gym's funding is from outside of the PA / NJ area altogether!

I don't even support "Save the Meadows" and still think she's a jerk!

She was dead silent on Washington Ave. I called and left messages for her, asked her over Twitter to make a statement, heard absolutely nothing back. She didn't legislate and she didn't use her at-large status to take a stand against councilmanic prerogative. And now she's proving that she's a complete hypocrite.

Love it! She's such a toolshed.

I have to guess Bishop's Collar did, because their stuff is still up. I hope they get approved.

Is there anywhere to see the list of pending streetery applications?

Rolling a cart really does open your eyes to that kind of stuff!

Not really, that's one of the big things missing from the Philadelphia media landscape.

The legislation which outlines exactly what's required of the people doing the renovation, specifically to protect you, goes into effect on New Years Day:

https://phila.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4928068&GUID=C171BABC-4312-48A3-8464-3C3FCD304E00&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=excavation

Unless you have an abatement, in which case the city will juice the land value to do an end-run.

It has so much potential! It would be great for there to be fun stuff to do off of the boardwalk. I like this idea a lot.

And a Falcon Heavy is probably louder than all of those, but I've never had one pass over me at 2000 feet, either. When a B-1 buzzes my roof, I'll amend my comment.