Im crying laughing but also nostalgic because he's literally in the alleyway behind my old house 😭❤️

This is demented garbage

Damn it must be frustrating to be so consistently wrong about this for almost three years now. And it doesn't even reflect actual concern for the people who are harmed by the disease! An awful double whammy

The government should provide the data they have available and let people do whatever they are comfortable with. It was 100% an overreaction

All of the ones at st Clair are fantastic.

I don’t think they are against light rail DMU at this juncture. It sounds like they haven’t done a thorough study besides napkin calculations.

“The project will begin planning with a proposal to utilize the current AVRR right of way as a transit-exclusive facility to minimize delays and traffic congestion between stations (freight rail operations could continue at off peak hours or overnight hours so as not to conflict with transit service). As the line currently carries very light industrial freight traffic, both light rail and bus modes can be further studied in this corridor to see which is warranted as the best solution. Cost estimates for the purposes of this high-level look have used busway-type cost ranges as a starting point. This plan could also look into the possibility of a transit-only connection to the Turnpike. “

I wonder how much deferred investment there is if they don’t use it much. I don’t know what speed it’s rated for or what it would cost to bring the rails up to speed to be competitive with a busway. Are there any double track sections for passing? Also they would need to budget a place to store and maintain the trains. I wonder how many of the 45,000 New Kensington area work in downtown Pittsburgh. Even if the whole project cost only $250 million they would need a ridership of about 2500 to justify the capital costs and then operationally it would cost a lot to run for not a lot of riders with how office buildings downtown are being converted to housing lately. PRT will have to look very closely at the cost and ridership projections to determine if it is a wise investment given how little money they get from the state and federal governments.

The busway option would be more convenient for servicing oakland but slower than the train for downtown. On the other hand 13 miles of busway would probably cost a billion dollars and seems excessive considering it’s not congested or part of the core network. Prt is probably interested in the possibility of a phased approach to the busway in which they focus on the bottleneck at Verona and Oakmont. Outside of those towns there are hardly any traffic lights or impediments that would justify a dedicated right of way.

the sprinter in San Diego is 22 miles and with 5000 daily ridership and got a lot of bad publicity for how it requires a transfer to get anywhere popular. San Diego is about twice the size of Allegheny county and is able to beat us out on the federal funding competition. They revived a billion federal dollars that was matched by the state and county for a total of $2billion to build a 11 mile light rail extension for 20,000 daily risers that received a medium-high rating from the FTA . It seems like cities the size of Pittsburgh are getting shut out from the large chunks of funding that go to rail projects. The larger ridership, larger population growth and willingness to raise taxes to match federal funds is a factor in pittsburgh being at a disadvantage to other cities.

There's two main feeder waypoints I fly to on the arrivals into Pittsburgh one is grace the other is Nesto.

Then move to Ohio? Idk what kind of response you were expecting from this post, but I'm guessing you're just trolling. Sorry your life is so pathetic you feel the need to do so. Hope you get better :)

Weak

Kind sir or madam. Might I ask what your username is in reference to?

By chance are you an aviator?

Is this the same idiot posting about how much they hate Pittsburgh and the weather?

That was the confusing part for me as well. Looks like she left her much older spouse's high school reunion where she was the HOTTEST smoke show in the room ... To real quick just enthusiastically inform the public about some snow that happened.

I drive from Bridgeville to Oakland today and I was amazed how much less snow there was as soon as I emerged from the tunnel. The grass was nicely covered in the South hills but the city was significantly less.

Maybe…. It’s your attitude that’s a pit of shit? Like why are you so mad that whatever snow that was there melted? If a snowy landscape is what you are searching for… try Buffalo? The whole of Canada?

Pittsburgh is quite beautiful if you and you’re attitude start looking up!

Bingo. Yeah, if you're on west side of Cleveland, you can't get much if any lake effect from a west wind, and I think the elevation plays a role in those areas to the east too.

I love snow as well, so I wish I could spend a winter in Erie or Ashtabula once.

I hope your day gets better :(

Why did you come to town if you’ve got such a raw hatred for the area lol

Oakland apparently.

here’s some advice: share your parameters with your current healthcare provider and pcp. i’m sure you’ll find the answers you want that way instead of reddit. this is about your heart. best to you and yours.

I’m guessing there’s been some thoughts about AVRR selling the ROW since they’re considering a busway. But either way, that fact that they’re even considering it is indicative of their long standing bias towards busways. Which I largely am fine with when busways make sense, but it’s baffling in this case.

A girl can dream. Instead they're gonna sink all their money into buses that don't go over traffic.

> Yes we've had considerable immunity for a long time at this point.

 
Obviously not, since hundreds of thousands of people are dying every year and people are contracting covid-19 multiple times.
 
If you can keep catching it, you don't have immunity to it. Fuck's sake.

 
> ut it's never going to be killing people to any degree which is worth worrying about.

 
It has been the leading cause of death in America besides cancer and heart disease for three years running, what are you talking about? It killed ~268K Americans in 2022. It's knocked nearly three years off the American life expectancy since 2020. That is insanely dire and usually only happens in collapsing societies, like Russia in the early nineties.

 
You are engaging in magical thinking. This pandemic isn't going to get better until we do something to make it better. Pretending it's 2019 and ignoring the monster in the room while it eats people is not making anything better.

While I hate everything else about Butler, their cardiology dept is pretty fantastic. Seriously though everything else about Butler (especially the hospital itself) is bad.

>And sometimes color is used to reflect gradients.

Just furthers my point - a map, be it color-coded or not, with snowfall totals overlayed would better show the gradient. Numbers in a table don't show how weather changed across a region if you have no reference points (that is to say, if you don't know where these places are, the numbers are pretty meaningless). It'd be fine for logging data for reference, but in this instance there were better choices for sharing that information.

Edit: this is an old article but the thumbnail shows the general idea of what I'm talking about

https://www.wtae.com/amp/article/pittsburgh-weather-snow-total-projections/38769632

Surprised you didn’t mention the lack of sun