I'm sure they do.

Isn't it wild to see a sign in OUR downtown asking people to not shit in the streets. It makes me so mad this is happening.

I'm told they give you the shits if you eat more than a few?

To be clear, I'm a huge fan of all the trees here, and we should definitely plant more. I'm just not personally moved by the issue of it being too hot in the summer.

I hear you. I moved here from Texas, where we had months of temperatures that only happen for a week at best, in Pittsburgh. I'm also not out in shorts in 40 degree weather so my take on it is really pretty subjective.

Unfortunately grazers are worse than plants, and predators are worse than grazers. Every time you go up a rung on the food chain it gets worse and worse. It’s yet another reason that the deer population is as outrageously out of control as it is.

Fruit from plants is kinda the only safe thing if you’re growing it in unsafe soil.

It’s tragic what a century of industry has done to the ecology in this region.

Ah, I hadn't thought about that. That's a shame.

I actually didn't know anything about bio accumulation until I was reading about it further in this thread, but in my head I had only applied it to plants.

Tree Pittsburgh has a map showing tree cover in the various neighborhoods. I think there's a newer map but this page has info from 2012. The "2012 State of the Urban Forest" has a lot of the data on tree cover in various neighborhoods.

2012 Tree Pgh urban forest master plan

I never thought about blowing my horn in a tunnel. Until I saw a sign saying it was forbidden. Now every time I go through a tunnel, that’s all I want to do. My wife, who has far more common sense than I do, acts as the good spirit on my shoulder and makes sure I don’t make a total ass of myself. But your point is well made: one of the quickest ways to get people to do something is to tell them they can’t

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The deer situation is dire. I wish someone with the authority to do so would at least start moving towards action. I don't think it's kinder to leave them to starve to death than it would be to cull some of the population, and it's not like they're going to stop reproducing.

Oh you don’t want to eat those deer anyway. The bio accumulation of an herbivore in this town has got to be INTENSE.

If you don’t want people to shit outside then provide free places to shit inside.

I would love this.

East Liberty has been a huge success for a middle-aged white lady like me. I agree. I just do not feel good about it.

I love that this is still sitting in my photos, it's next to the Duquesne Club https://imgur.com/RqO6q5z.jpg

Nothing like a good poop behind the Duquesne Club if you're a human.

Can only imagine Bakery Square Karen's meltdown if she'd gone to Bloomfield instead...

Neighborhoods go through transition and I think East Liberty's latest is balanced, considering.

I know the bitter documentary, if it was ever finally pieced together into one. I'm just glad there are less murders and street prostitutes near my home.

Walking the .75 miles from downtown East Liberty to my home was absolutely not a good idea 20 years ago.

Barista unionization?

Everything is a profit grab in a capitalist economy. I think putting up barriers to constructing new housing serves to benefit existing landlords. I disagree with anything that makes it harder or more expensive to build more housing. More supply will lower prices. There is localized gentrification when developers build new expensive housing. I worry about low wage workers being pushed further away from employment and good transit. Requiring developers to provide a percentage of housing for low wage workers is possibly a good solution but it may lead to a little less housing being built overall.

It’s a self created problem for city planning. They have made such a complicated, convoluted, and often arbitrary review process that they need double the staff time to review projects than previously required. What did they expect when nearly every project had to go to ZBA, design review, planning commission, multiple community meetings, reviews by non governmental entities like GBA and Riverlife (how is that even legal?)…

Goodness forbid they streamline the process and lighten their work load.

The people who poop on streets don't give a damn about this sign or any other. Might as well have posted a sign for the cat-sized rats.

Damn government taking away our freedoms

I think a corp buying in sqhill ha spies finding infirm aged who sell at 1970 prices