Good to know.

What if, hypothetically, you turn 85% of these rentals in to condos at a mortgage equal to their rent.... the housing wouldn't freaking disappear it would just mean that your rent now becomes equity and when you are ready to leave that unit for a home or another condo you get that equity back. This idea that the housing would just disappear is bonkers, it would just mean that how people own/rent/use property would need to change and that's to our benefit.

No offense but if you've been paying close to 2k/mo to live in a 2br in highland park you've been part of the problem for several years now....

Walking for groceries sucks. I either order them and have them delivered or park my car out front illegally for like 5 minutes. I usually order since it doesn't cost too much. For general parking, I pay for a lease with the smith&Liberty Garage. $222 a month. It's a block away from my apartment.

Thank you for sharing your experience. In your Specific example, you are actively improving the unit and then charging to make up the cost over time. That is normal and expected.

If you instead didn't make any changes to the unit, but charged "market rent" for it, you'd be an ass. Those landlords that are charging so much for a unit because they know people need housing and will pay whatever they ask are causing issues.

Making a profit isnt a problem so much as price gouging on a resource people need to survive is.

To be honest, I only paid attention to the routes and timing that affected me. I know the routes that were eliminated didn't come back, but there were some different routes were added over time. I don't know if they replaced the routes that were eliminated or if they were completely new. I do know of one completely new route in my area, but can't speak to those further out. Frequency did return. Before the pandemic most of the routes I took were back to every 10 minutes during rush hour, but spaced out more during off times. I'm not sure if that's how they were before the cuts, though. I went from taking the bus at rush hour to get to and from work before the cuts to being retired and taking the bus at different times.

Sometimes I swear PRT goes out of their way to cut routes and stops, good funding or not.

Yep! So maybe they cut some of the commuter schedules heading into town but keep the routes that run between smaller communities, shopping areas, etc…

I work in the service industry and typically people tip 1000% - %50,000. So if a bill is for $30, a typical customer will tip $300 to $15,000. But that's just a minimum. If someone is really generous, and a kindhearted, good person, they would tip from $20,000 to $50,000,000 for a $30 service.

The ideal is shifting to an environment where people are using transit for things like shopping, errands, etc. That kind of ridership hasn't declined really, it's just that we had previously built transit systems around getting people to their jobs

Do you remember the degree to which service was restored, if at all? Especially wrt frequency. Every 10 minutes reduced to every 30 minutes sounds absolutely brutal.

Well, I don’t think Pittsburgh skiers don’t actually ski IN Pittsburgh and I think most of the ski areas are under the blue, so I’d say you can still hit the slopes.

I remember the last round of cuts. I'm lucky - I live in an urban area and commuted to a large university, where I was on staff. But even in my area, we had several routes eliminated. And the ones that survived cut stops. Buses that used to stop every 10 minutes came once every 30 minutes or even longer. For riders at the far ends of lines or on lines that don't get a lot of use, it's a real problem. Those are the routes that get terminated.

Looks like deer poop , smells like deer poop , tastes like deer poop... good thing I didn't step in it .

To an extent I can see how you came to your conclusions. My question would then be how do you feel about this happening in other industries?

We're seeing this all around right now, but let's use the example of electric/power. You have to have it in your home and for most places there is only one option for provider DLC. If you found out your electric bill went up $200 because the power company in Cleveland started charging more to their customers would you be upset?

Wait, so you guys pay for daycare and they still ask volunteers to work for them? Despite being paid? A lot I might add…I fail to see how this is acceptable.

I don’t have kids so I may be ignorant to the details behind it all. I’d be pissed if they asked me to work for free despite my paying them for a service. 🤔

Just saw the post below, I see it is in fact absolute BS lol

Awesome! Ill have to check them out. La Gourmendine is delicious but I didnt know theyde be having that. Thank you!

It’s the New Normal… was probably was about $90-120 in 2018 you can ask electric company for back years cost

Republicans would rather watch the world burn than raise taxes to fund basic government services. They are in the House of Representatives proposing 25% across the board funding cuts for discretionary spending in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.

Saint Ravioli is doing a box with a few other places. Fet Fisk is doing a Valentine’s dinner but it is sold out. La Gourmendine has a heart shaped pastry.

Communism would fix your problem.

I’m loving it so far! I was actually living in Michigan’s upper peninsula during snowmageddon, in a small but hilly town. Hope you are enjoying Oregon!

I can explain the 2.5 inches by the airport and nothing in the city Sunday evening. With the system on Sunday evening, there was a band of moderate snow that was able to accumulate 1 to 2 inches in areas of far western Allegheny County and to the west of that because it basically held stationary over the same areas. By the time the banding finally shifted east towards the city around midnight, the best dynamics were over, so what snow did fall here had a much harder time accumulating, because it wasn't as heavy and the temps were marginal.

It’s a business not a charity 💝

I don’t see how there won’t be massive cuts given the large shift to remote work that will never completely go back to the way it was. Even if 90% of downtown workers return to their offices (unlikely), that leaves a 10% reduction in revenue which is huge.