EYV was exactly who I was referring to! I haven't been to their brick and mortar location yet, but their pop-up at Station we went to was really excellent. I think they're still BYOB and waiting longer than they expected for their liquor license, which has definitely not been good for business. (Something is jacked up with the county--Back to the Foodture is waiting longer than anticipated as well.)

Those penalties only exist if the people in charge feel like enforcing them. They usually do not, so the penalties might as well not exist.

Sometimes I find myself being briefly annoyed when the bus has to wait for kids who aren't outside when the bus comes or if a kid is dawdling. But often I see a mom or dad walking behind them, looking left and right, shepherding them to the point where they have to cross the road. It only takes a few seconds to wait until they are on the bus or off the bus and on safe ground, just as it only takes a few seconds to get impatient and ruin lives. Stop. For. Every. School. Bus.

Zero for carry out. $4-5 for delivery. 15-20% for dine in (I usually calculate 20% in my head and then round down to the nearest dollar)

I swear by Waze going from HP to Robinson every morning. I usually hit traffic early enough where Ft Pitt isn't a parking lot just yet. Otherwise I either take the West End bridge, or just go thru McKees Rocks and Kennedy Twp.

Same goes for any other distracted driving.

Tho this guy wasn't distracted, he definitely refused to make eye contact and was staring straight ahead when he went by in what was a no passing zone anyhow.

Thanks for this moving and well-told story.

> The other day I had one call me a little bitch because I had the audacity to honk at him

 
The other day some guy got out of his car and wanted to fight me at the Armstrong Tunnel entrance because I took my right way of way and he thought a Yield sign actually means "go". Some real fucked up brains around here.

I’m with you 412% if I see someone using Honeycomb or other crowdsourcing stuff to help run or start their business I’m all about it. I can’t wait to try EYV later this week for that exact reason!

Using the same platform people have to use to beg for help with medical bills for extra cash while opening your boujee restaurant is quintessential trashy.

I used to do delivery, they'll normally just let you in, especially since you're coming at the end of the game typically. I mean it probly wouldnt work for a pro football game or something like that, but college gyms arent exactly fort knox lol, you just go to the side door.

Nobody. Was. Talking. About. Divided. Highways. Jesus. Christ.

It’s probably just the way that light works. It’s timed, but it holds a lot of traffic from the West End and from the bridge. So, if you’re hitting it right at the right time in it’s sequence, then you’ll get caught in the traffic.

That intersection, by the way, took me about a year of regularly driving through to finally figure out which lane to be in.

I guess it definitely ties into that. Of course all traffic in the area is linked together. I put google maps on every morning even though I go the same exact route (just so I can see if anything unexpected is coming up). Weirdly this morning it initially routed me through the Ft Pitt Tunnel then gave me the “faster route available.”

I'm still looking forward to trying their food again, but this rubbed me the wrong way a bit too. A similarly hip restaurant that recently opened used a microfinance campaign that seemed much more appropriate for a for-profit business. However, if someone wants to essentially tip them in advance, that's their prerogative.

Depends on how fucked up the Ft Pitt tunnel traffic is on any certain day.

we dont get along but i agree with you on this one. this sub tore the owners of the potential hiphop themed fried chicken restaurant in east liberty when they tried to crowd-fund.

But this sub is fickle and the mods dont adhere to their own guidelines (look at all the sports posts they allow).

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I think that most property owners just can't fathom the concept that most renters don't really gaf about new carpet.

Maybe YOU or your wife or your side piece can't imagine living with just... renting a carpet cleaner from Save-A-Lot for $35 dollars for the home where you live.

But the people who are paying off your mortgage, taxes, insurance, ++? They sacrifice something, embarrass their kids, AND go hungry a day just to rent a carpet cleaner from Save-A-Lot so they can hope and wish to get back that deposit that you already spent on whatever you think will impress somebody.

Just remember that those toddlers of hers will be the ones changing your diapers when you're old and incontinent.

Fuck them at your own peril !

Coming through the West End biz district pretty much right at 8:10 every morning. So I’m pretty consistent. I guess it just is what it is… I also noticed coming home up 376 towards Green Tree seems like less traffic recently then in the past. Weird.

Pre-Covid, it definitely varied by day also. I noticed West End and 376/51/65/28/279 traffic was light on basically all Mondays and most Fridays, and very heavy on Tuesdays through Thursdays.

I always chalked the light Mondays up to deliveries not arriving from shippers being closed over the weekends and restaging/receiving Mondays, so that meant Tuesdays had a lot of shipping/truck volume.

I always felt Fridays were light due to workers who have 4-day work weeks (M-Th), and the heavy Fridays were due to cultural events Downtown.

I would have no clue what the rhythms are today. Literally everything has changed in the past three years.

And also what trail-coffee said, I felt like 5-10 minutes (especially 3:30pm) made the difference between quickly moving and near gridlock.

Well played.

Agreed about the crowdfunding campaigns for restaurants, or retail, or shady animal cafes that usually foreshadow issues later. But, I'm not sure a fancy restaurant would be really out of place in Bloomfield, or that it's necessarily a working-class neighborhood anymore. Plus, 1/3 of this team is a brown guy and another 1/3 is a white woman, so while I take any opportunity I can to promote Kevin Sousa for the Mt. Rushmore of Shitty Pittsburghers, I don't think his race or gender matter here (especially since working class neighborhoods in Pittsburgh were historically populated by white guys and families).

They had me at smoked trout.

On fort Pitt before COVID, 15 minutes was the difference between tons and none.

Do u keep track of the times u hit the traffic or the bridge?

I know someone who lost their license for 6 months, before video/dashcams were common based on a report from a bus driver.

Where I live, they put police in front of school zones at the start of the school year, and if there are any issues with this kind of thing will put a unit at the problem stop and absolutely prosecute to the full extent of the law.