The upvotes to this are a sad reminder to never underestimate white liberals capacity for getting more upset over possibly offensive language than violent actions.

People choose the soft bigotry of low expectations over confronting uncomfortable social realities.

Cities need good infrastructure to expand. I want a city with the infrastructure and amenities to be as successful as the geography permits.

Oh also trains are really cool.

Yeah but I dont agree that 30,000 is an absolute minimum. I prefer an estimate like $100,000 per rider and $100 million per mile construction would require 1000 riders per mile. Busier lines can cost more to construct and lines that are cheaper to construct won’t need as many riders so it is a handy little rule of thumb to go by.

If you want a similar sized city Portland is the closest to Pittsburgh. They spent $1.5 billion with 50% federal and 25 % state funding for 7.3 miles with a projected ridership of 17,000 puts it at $88,000 per projected rider. Sadly that lines projections were two high and actual ridership has come out to be around $200,000 per rider. Some agencies are better than others at estimating and the San Diego line had near perfect estimates.

Here is a great article with a lot of data. It discusses heavy rail in big cities first which is obviously not comparable to Pittsburgh but later in it gets into light rail in other cities

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/the-u-s-gets-less-subway-for-its-money-than-its-peers

Rent….Homes in Pittsburgh are cheap and everyone on that price range wants to move. And don’t mention the real estate tax going up because your purchase price “Sets the Value

They alter their sign so it reads "Crapteka" every year?

They do this every year. They pause their typical menu and sell burgers. Vegan of course.

We bought in Greenfield when I was working in Oakland at UPMC Presbyterian and my wife was working in Shadyside. We've been very happy and have a big enough house that we've had 2 kids and a dog. Greenfield is more of a neighborhood/family vibe, but we love it

Well what is he insinuating then? I’d love to hear it since it isn’t anywhere in their comment.

Smart pills

The numbers vary a lot on census trends/weight of the region— even though I believe a lot in Pittsburgh, we have had a long period of stasis in our population, and likely will not see huge changes (barring anything huge) for a while, and therefore thresholds that are looked at are a bit different. San Diego is a growing region and has different outlooks than Pittsburgh, which play a role in all of this. They also have different state funding structures, as well as many other contributing rail projects in the state of California that may have played a role in project approval.

I get they're serving "fast food" but uh still seems unappealing

Theyre already exposed to the most prestigious high school in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of the city, yet they still act like animals. Not sure how much "worse" they could get by not being exposed to rich people on the daily.

>28X costs less than $3 and takes you to the airport. What are you trying to improve? Or do you just think trains are cool?

Capacity. Both on the vehicle and at the stops. You can't base a proper airport connection off of 200 square feet of sidewalk.

I agree that Robinson might not be a good stop location, but I think that's more a problem with Robinson than with trains. Robinson is just... a mistake that happens to have the only Ikea in the area.

The slopes aren't unsafe. But, like others have mentioned, the houses are old and definitely need work. I live in a rental in the slopes and love it as a rental, but I know my landlord wasn't able to sell it even a year ago when the market was nuts because it needs a lot of updates.

Baby chickens are small birds that can’t fly.

Haha I actually thought about that while I was drinking it!!

Airport rail is usually real rail, not light rail. Choo choo.

They may eat a small bird if they find one that can’t fly. But they’re not chicken predators.

Deer s**t

They'll never take me alive!

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I’m guessing you are out in the stix a ways but I hope to make your acquaintance some day

I have 2 friends who work there, and I used to live a few blocks away on Alderson street.

I know for a fact that the employees hate that time of day when all the high schoolers come out and come in there. They treat the employees like shit.

I am simply telling OP to look into this when buying a house. They could be coming from a very flat area and be unaware of buying houses on a hillside. I am not saying they shouldn’t necessarily but they need to research the property first. If they were looking at property in Millville or another lower area I would say to make sure they look into flooding issues. Sorry you took this as I told OP to never buy a house on a hillside.