It gives you some leeway to put money aside for when they true up. I live in a 110 year old house, 1800sf, and I've never got a shock bill in May when Columbia trues up.

Yinz Comfy is great!

If you were renting then the landlord may wait until Monday when it's cheaper.

I haven’t heard of Pittsburgh’s skybus actually! Thanks for sharing. This type of system with modern technology could be so powerful. I also think people don’t fully appreciate how expensive roads are to maintain, vs how cheap rail is.

It costs $1 million to repave a single lane mile of road, and they must be repaved every 15 years on average. There are 866 miles of paved road in Pittsburgh. That is 57 million dollars per year to maintain Pittsburgh’s roads, ignoring our 450+ bridges and assuming they are all single lane. Monorail has very little maintenance cost cause there is nothing to repave. Installation cost varies a ton but can be done for about $50 million per mile for elevated lines, including building the supporting power and control stations. After that upfront hurdle you see massive savings, cause roads last way longer when they see less traffic.

The bag you put over the open window is worth more than the car

This literally already happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_Expressway_Revenue_Line

Agree with the Hotel Monaco! I would also say The Fairmont is romantic too. Great bar on the second floor and good ambience overall.

I'm sure you know about this, but for anyone else interested, check out the Skybus.

This kind of system currently exists in downtown Miami as The Metro Mover.

It’s weird cause I hear other universities pronounced that way but not Pitt. UPenn, UToronto, etc. Maybe Pitt has a longer/more storied sports tradition so what the announcers use on game day and in the papers becomes the default

Their usernames are suspiciously similar.

Love me a good argument to absurdity.

Imagine if we had high speed monorail connecting each of our neighborhoods. Not like subways but like the ultra light rail at airports that transports people between distant terminals. Never more than a 5 minute wait cause each line only has two stops and multiple train cars, each equipped with bike racks that let you bring a regular or electric bike with you.

Nobody would ever have to look at a bus/train schedule and you could be in any neighborhood in less than 5-10 minutes. With a bike you could get from any rail station to your destination in another 5 minutes. You’d never have to even look at a map or gps cause it would become so easy to navigate.

And monorails are almost silent so it wouldn’t matter where you put them. They are so smooth that you hardly even notice that you’re moving. You could read a book during your commute. They are also futuristic as fuck and would make this city just feel like it is decades ahead of the rest of the world.

They are also billions of dollars cheaper to maintain and run than roads shared by cars and busses. We could easily afford to do this right now and have several monorail lines up and running within the decade

Market district bethel park has some packaged ones in the Asian section. Not the dried ones but the thick chewy ones.

Port Authority is a joke and the state of our "T" system never fails to raise my blood pressure. Could you imagine a proper network for our "T" system? You know, opposed to whatever boondoggle this is supposed to be:

South Hills Village -> Mt Lebanon -> Dormont -> (on a good day maybe Beechview) -> Station Square -> Downtown -> End of the line

Mass transit this is not. What an embarrassment for our city.

This map completely ignores the Rt 8 corridor. I think a line going up from Etna to Hampton would be useful

Can’t recommend Mino Heating & Cooling highly enough

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We restarted it yesterday and it didn't help as well as replaced batteries. Thankfully our hot water still works so shouldn't be gas issue.

The led code is showing the igniter and we cleaned around it. Hoping it's just old and needs replaced. We have a company on the way out now. Unfortunately there is a $125 fee since it's Sunday but it's 48 in the house. The joys of being a home owner.

That doesn’t make sense at all

We'd probably be looking at actual shortages right now without that domestic capacity, instead of just uncomfortably high prices.

If I wasn’t WFH, with C3 park and ride closing, I could see driving to the county airport for this.

The church of the Port Authority

Never noticed that, it seems they've confused brunot island for Neville island, very strange.

In that area, I’ve heard good things about Restano.

Not a long shot at all! Lots of Asian markets in Pittsburgh. I usually go to Many More but all of the stores listed here are great options. Many of them carry fresh noodles. I just had some single portion packs of udon that were in the refrigerated section of Many More.