I always tell people it means I get to actually use my full closet all the time :)

Thank you for sharing your experience in the healthcare system. I'll be honest that I usually avoid that topic because I truly cannot handle thinking about the disparities for long without myself struggling.

Why so many people in this thread and life feel it is normal to let such a horrible system continue I do not know. Just because the situation has gotten to this point does not mean it is okay, does not mean it should have gotten here, or that it should continue.

Head over to buffalo New York or wherever. Why are wishing bad for non-snow-lovers?

But that would be socialism or something.

Exactly, its awful and unsustainable.

Waltmire Pharmacy on Spring Garden Ave. has helium balloons.

So if utilities went up and now the cost is on the tenants why is the rent also increasing %15?

I’ve had a bus driver with no lights blinking swing it’s stop sign out after my car had already started passing, during winter at that. Stopping that fast prob would cause me to slide on snow. Anyhow that douche bus driver laid the horn on the entire time.

The same bus (unsure if same driver) picked up kids in front of a house that was a couple houses before a stop sign. After picking up the kids, the bus driver blew right through the stop sign almost slamming into my neighbor driving through the intersection (neighbor didn’t not have a stop sign). Bus driver laid on the horn and was shouting. Neighbor ended up calling the school to report the driver and they didn’t care about witnesses or anything..they said they were going to ask her to show up to court or some shit. It made no sense.

What I learned- bus drivers are equally bad drivers, but are untouchable. Always approach them slowly as it’s what’s right for children safety and quite honestly, you don’t know what those nutcase drivers will do.

There was a massive shortage of bus drivers recently and they didn’t really care who they hired.

Lower Greenfield (aka The Run) all the way. It’s a small neighborhood, but super convenient to CMU and the prices on homes are generally decent.

As long as one of those three seasons isn't Summer, we're good.

Weiss meats or Cheplic Packing

Your photo is pretty okay too

Parentless children run rampant in the streets. There are more pizza shops than people. Other than that? It's whatever.

Thank you!

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Tacos are overpriced and it's a Cleveland Browns hangout

I forgot to turn off the weather shield, sorry everybody

There's nowhere to ski in the city of Pittsburgh. Be quiet.

I hate to be pessimistic, but given the massive budget shortfalls of the vast majority of American transit agencies, the future has never looked more bleak for them. At least not in my lifetime.

There's a good chance that in 3 years or so, any transit agency that doesn't get a permanent funding source from its state will look back at 2023 even as "the good old days". Given that even a state like CA is mulling transit cuts, I'm not optimistic for PA at all.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania/lower-public-transit-use-in-pennsylvania-poses-long-term-budget-problems/article_55ecf108-92bf-11ed-a81c-c7da471e92d3.html

Everything is like this now. Not just housing. It’s every service we pay for and every good we buy. We are paying more for everything and we keep getting less and less. Companies are blaming the pandemic but it is just greed.

It always seemed like the school buses teach kids very bad road crossing habits.

Most kids don't look at all when coming out from behind the bus and crossing near a giant obstruction like a bus is also high on the list of things not to do.

I drove a school bus, 1998-2003. I had the "bad" kids, who went to the "bad kid" school. Justin was one of them.

Justin was 6, a kindergartener with freckles and a mop of red hair. The first day I picked him up, he was wearing overalls and a striped shirt, like Chucky. I never found out what he had done to get sent to that place at age 6.

Every morning, I would pull up and set my red lights/stop sign, make sure traffic had stopped, then motion for him to cross. He had to cross the opposite lane and walk in front of the bus.

One morning, same routine, traffic is stopped, and Justin started across. I don't know why, but that morning he stopped on the yellow line, turned, and waved to his mom. He continued to the bus, and just as he got to my right front corner a silver pickup with a ladder rack passed my bus on the shoulder. It went past so fast I barely saw it, then it disappeared around a bend.

Justin slowly walked around the corner of the bus and climbed the steps, face pale and eyes huge.

I asked him, "You OK, bud? "

He slowly nodded, then continued to his seat. He was unusually quiet for the drive to school.

That little guy was barely the height of my (mini bus) hood. If he hadn't stopped, he would have rounded the corner just as that truck passed my doors. That was 24 years ago, and Justin is 30 now, but I can still see the shock on his face from that close call.

Ok we’ll that isn’t what I understand a citizens arrest to be but you do you then.

“Supply and demand pricing is bullshit for a basic survival need.”

Say it louder for the people in the back.

Tangential— I work in healthcare and see firsthand how the “free market” doesn’t apply in my industry. What is the limit you would pay to save a loved one, treat your child’s cancer, or help yourself walk again after something catastrophic? For most sane people, the answer is “everything I have, and then some.”

You can’t build a fair market when the demand is essentially infinite. There’s parallels in the housing market, too. We can argue that certain types of housing are luxury goods, and that people do need to be able to make money landlording (or no one would), but at the end of the day, people need a roof over their heads. There needs to be ethics involved in these decisions too, not just pure profit motive.

I think the most useful expansion of the T would be a line going from Downtown to the east end, with stops in Oakland, shady side, and squirrel hill. These are some of the most populated neighborhoods in the city and would likely use a new rail line the most. I’m aware the busway is already there, but still.