I would fix the bathroom situation in the Wissahickon. In particular the bathrooms at valley green inn.

Also going to this

Damn I've spent too many points on keeping my trash can. OP, if you missed the train but you still have your trash can, that's where the luck went.

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Trash removal, trash cans at corners, street lights. Point Breeze.

Tow all of the cars from the median on Broad Street and replace them with large planters. The planters can have trees, bamboo or whatever, but they have to be large enough so that cars cannot park there again.

It’s pretty cool, saw local h there, seen them A few times at various venues. They had the best sound at warehouse on watts

For me, Bella Vista and Grad Hospital are not South Philly. Maybe they used to be--but I think there's a definite boundary now with Washington Avenue. Hawthorne is Bella Vista and not sure what Whitman is! Where is it?

laughs in northeast Philly

For us it wasn’t a matter of health, it was a matter of space. We now both work from home which meant that our 900 sq ft row home wasn’t big enough to accommodate our life. We also wanted more outdoor space and a parking spot since my work requires me to drive and come home much later than normal rush hour and there was no place for me to park at those times. Not to mention when working from home in the burbs my partner could avoid all wage taxes and I could avoid some BIRT and NPT taxes. So it’s basically a wash cost of living wise for a bigger place.

Also during the pandemic nothing that makes cities fun and enjoyable we’re still there. Concerts, bars, museums, etc. I know personally I realized that access to these things were not as important to our lives as pre pandemic I would have thought they were.

In general people’s lives and priorities shifted in many fundamental ways that are not shifting back any time soon.

Edit: wanted to add that if you want there are lots of opportunities to walk around in many suburban areas. Do I walk to the grocery store? No. Did I do that when I lived in Fishtown? Also no. Do I know just take regular pleasure walks by myself? Yes. Did I do that in Fishtown? No. So it really depends again on your lifestyle and priorities.

they could easily have the broad street line surface running for that portion but they don't want to.

ridership projections for the BLVD are estimated at 125,000 trips per day, about the same as the subway and the el.

3/11 - Bayside @ Union transfer

I think autos are under a different part of the code

Fixed it.

Thanks. Fixed it.

Simple: the vast majority of funding for Septa comes from the burbs and that is a project that is burb centric.

Note: this only works with unlimited resources, per the OP

Lol

Why such a misleading title? It makes it sound like these businesses are leaving Philly (as evidenced by idiots claiming they “left” because Philly is dangerous)

this is the exact thing "bus rapid transit" would be for. you make the middle of Oregon Ave into a bus only lane, and articulated buses that stop every half mile.

it will never happen because "fuck you that's why" but it isn't some impossible solution; it exists all over the world and even some cities in the US.
here is a wikipedia on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit

here are the best in class in the US:https://www.gtt.com/top-6-brt-routes-2019/

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Cut $100k home improvement checks to every homeowner with a 100% repayment stipulation if the property is sold within 3 years or if funds aren’t used to improve the property.

I’ll add my personal anecdote here: I lived in Fishtown and worked downtown. Moved to the western burbs during covid and mostly work from home, but go to various parts of the city for work about 3 times a week. But I don’t really shop or eat in the city anymore since it’s more expensive (various taxes) and less convenient form me. I do however go to the suburban outposts of many of the places I used to go in the city like la Colombe, white dog, etc. If they didn’t exist in the burbs I would just be a lost customer since it it wouldn’t be worth it go into the city for them since there are other great local options. And I know lots of other folks who once were city dwellers / workers who now work from in the burbs and feel the same. It’s smart of these companies to follow their customers.

I will say that one of the big motivators for us moving to the burbs was the overall declining quality of life in the city (including, but not limited to crime), but that’s not why I wouldn’t go to a store or restaurant in the city. Now that I’m here it’s a matter of convenience. Especially since I’m the mainline area there are lots of great shopping and dining options closer to home.

Are there some whackos who won’t cross the city line for fear of being immediately murdered? Sure. But that is really a very small part of the suburban population and most of us suburbanites also think those people are crazy.

Logic, highways are not going away. But the US in general is refusing to build new highways. So only logic is expand the existing ones.
But we can expand transit for less space than a 4 lane highway.

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Nice.

Would be a massive undertaking but far more profitable and worthwhile than the KoP extension.

Hopefully it's 4 tracks, end to end. Express service would be appealing.

How far down/up would it go? Neshaminy Mall/Franklin Mills - Frankford?