Not sure if it fits your bill, but Safe Haven just opened an "Urgent Care" in Wexford. Their website hasn't been completely updated but from a FB post that was shared :

> New Veterinary Urgent Care in the North Pittsburgh area!! Safe Haven Veterinary Hospital is now open and accepting canine/feline patients!!
13085 Perry Highway Wexford PA 15090 (724) 591-8393 8a-6p Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday No appointment necessary. Walk in services available for your pet’s acute illnesses.

Run by a vet who left a certain 5-letter emergency vet in the North Hills after being bought out (as discussed in many other threads in /r/pittsburgh in detail).

> It's a bar version of a high school band fundraiser hoagie.

I love fundraiser hoagies. But you can't compare the two unless it comes with a teeny tiny bag of lettuce that turns brown in one day, two tomato slices, and 1 maybe 2 packets of dressing for a >12" hoagie. Topping/condiment scarcity is part of the experience.

Man, we had this kid at work we nicknamed "Booger" because when he changed desks, they had to bring in cleaning people to scrape an insane amount of boogers off the underside of his desk.

He eventually got fired. A few of us would hit up a place by the Kennedy Giant Eagle that had all you could eat wings a certain day - saw him working there, turned right around and went somewhere else. Place seems to be closed now, so everyone else is spared from booger wings.

I never heard that before, have a source? I knew it was from green onions from Mexico I think, and the workers were shitting in the fields, but I thought that was more of a "how could they have known" thing when they buy green onions from their supplier.

I think it's more of "you can cause an accident, pay better attention" kind of thing.

There is a somewhat similar situation on GreenTree Rd heading into the West End. It's 2 lanes during high traffic times and the right lane at the blood bank is right-turn only. People just blast through straight in the right turn only lane often, which will cause an accident if the person in the middle (left) lane is obeying traffic signs and going straight as well.

Right, but speeding + bad drivers certainly could be a factor. I'd lower the limit even more if I were PennDOT, and put one of the auto speed cameras there, just to protect from the liability.

Hopefully the affected vehicles are filing claims against the state. I'm willing to bet any insurance adjuster with a pulse would be all over this.

For those who haven't driven it - it's really bad, even at the reduced speed limit. I'm not going to pretend to know what the actual spec is for these kind of temporary construction shifts, but it seems like someone messed up. Teaching my teenager to drive and returning from Erie and hitting that was the biggest butthole pucker I've had with him driving.

I don't mind Burgatory in general but after getting a shake to go and forgetting about it in my car - and 4 hours later it being just as thick as when it was frozen - that's turned me off to them. I'm sure it's just heavy cream, maybe a thickener, but I can't unsee it.

A few years ago the one in Robinson started locking up their men's underwear shortly after implementing the self-checkout lane. Bonkers. Like I'm not even going to look at electronics in a Walmart because you can never find an associate to unlock the case for you, I'm most certainly not going to deal with the hassle of doing that for a 5 pack of Hanes.

I'm sure Walmart has a formula of shrinkage vs staffing where it's still in their favor to let people walk off with stuff. Sounds like this store tipped the scale too far.

If it were just a stand alone sci-fi fantasy movie, it would have been fine. Super Mario Bros was literally the first movie made of a video game's IP, and it was so butchered - it reminds me of the Superman sequel WB asked Kevin Smith to write.

Followed up with Double Dragon, Street Fighter, and Mortal Kombat. In fact if you look at the list they're almost universally horrible.

It's like they were intentionally made to be bad to be content for MST3K. And I just found there's a RiffTrax of it so I know what I'm doing tonight.

Pretty sure you just described Paradise Island Bowling on Neville Island

Hey, they have to show they have a chip on their shoulder somehow. I bet you're a suburbanite who drives a full sized SUV and chooses Huntz ketchup!

Currently wrapping up my eldest's permit (we're getting ready to go practice parallel parking right now).

To start, we did school parking lots, someone else recommended Donaldson. Let them get the feel of the car and the ratio of turning the wheel.

After that, we found a quiet residential neighborhood, preferably one without a lot of people who park on the street. Keep it under 20, practice some stop signs and turns. Walden Woods would probably fit the bill for this.

Then we did a secondary road with a limit of 35 without a lot of traffic. In your area, maybe Oakdale Rd. Once they have that down, something faster like McKee Rd.

Then an "easy" highway. 22/30 away from Robinson would probably be good. Eventually graduating to a real interstate, I had him drive us up to Erie to visit my parents this summer.

For me there were 2 big "tests" once I felt he was ready that he needed to pass for me :

1. Robinson on the weekend

2. Inbound and outbound Parkway (376 to 279)

If you can negotiate those, you can do anything.

Trust the fungus

Also not a PWSA customer, and mine bill separately (sewer based on water usage though).

For comparison, I pay approx $300/quarterly for both bills combined, and my last quarterly usage was 13k gallons. So call it $100/month for 4k+ gallons/month. This is for a 4-6 person household, no pool or anything crazy just bathing, washing clothes/dishes and cooking/drinking.

I thought they were going to close of University Blvd and land it there.

The wife and I typically take a "just to get away" vacation every 6 months. Earlier this year we stayed at this AirBnB across the river in Ohio from Parkersburg, WV. It's about a 3 hour drive, and you can take Route 7 all the way which IMO is a much easier and scenic drive along the Ohio River.

Place was small but super cozy right on the river with a great deck, inexpensive, and fit the bill of what I feel an AirBnB should be - little ancillary places rented out on the side, not messing with the local real estate market.

Parkersburg has Blennerhassett Island which has some rather interesting history involving Aaron Burr and an attempted coup of the US govt. In town there is also the Blennerhassett hotel which is "fancy" for the area with a great Sunday brunch.

The rest of the area is pretty sparse, it's the middle of nowhere Ohio/WV. But for us, who just wanted to day-drink and binge Netflix for 3 days it was perfect.

That's a huge difference, if you want to choose between "a lot of sausage" or something else.

Who's the hitman? The pinned it on Sheldon Jeter Jr. who was already locked up for a different murder.

> had a hit called on her by her crazy cop husband

This specifically. Her fiance wasn't a cop, he's "The Wolf of Aliquippa" Frank Catroppa.

When this happened years ago I was into it (I'm in Hopewell next door, and formerly lived in Aliquippa). The websites and references are gone now, but Catroppa used to own this "Prestige Worldwide" company (not the real name but something similarly stupidly named) that was basically him taking a cut from sending kids out to sign people up for Comcast subscriptions. It was the most obvious money laundering company I've ever seen in real life. He has since diversified into owning Cosmo (totally not money laundering front)

That's not what happened, a lot of half-wrong comments in this thread aside from speculation :

Here's a long read from the BeaverCountian - note, this is not an impartial source, the owner has a major bone to pick with local police and government.

DelTondo was engaged to Frank Catroppa, who is so clearly mobbed up and currently owns Cosmo, one of the nuisance South Site Pittsburgh clubs.

She was banging one of her former students she subbed for from Aliquppa. He was black - and only mentioning that because it's relevant to the motivation behind her murder. If you know Aliquippa Italians, they are super racist. As in, West Aliquippa is all white and one time a black family bought a house and they burnt it down.

Anyway - DelTondo got caught in the old hospital lot with this kid with the windows steamed up. 'Quip cop caught them, but no charges were filed. Then a report about the incident was sent out from an anonymous source at the 'Quip PD to a bunch of people, her friends, employer, etc. Basically putting her on blast for banging the kid (who was 17 btw).

This started a state investigation into corruption of the 'Quip PD (which is a whole other ball of worms) that DelTonda was cooperating with as an informant.

In the mean time, DelTondo started banging the first kids (Sheldon's) brother (Bolton).

Then she got shot in her parent's driveway on Mother's Day. 'Quip PD showed up and basically did a "oh now I accidently mucked up this evidence" and was a total shit show. There was basically no useful evidence collected.

Eventually the first kid, Sheldon Jeter Jr, got put away for a different murder. And it on the surface it looks like they just pinned DelTondo's murder on him since he was already in jail, case closed, bake him away toys, nothing to see here.

tl;dr - She was killed in a hit by her mobbed up fiancé for banging a 17 year old in a parking lot, local corrupt PD covered it up. The whole thing is the epitome of Beaver County trashy.

OK, but was that done as a function of improving safety, or just the standard they adopted?

The Federal Highway has this to say on the subject (emphasis mine) :

> Speed is a primary consideration when evaluating potential adverse impacts of lane width on safety. On high-speed, rural two-lane highways, an increased risk of cross-centerline head-on or cross-centerline sideswipe crashes is a concern because drivers may have more difficulty staying within the travel lane. On any high-speed roadway, the primary safety concerns with reductions in lane width are crash types related to lane departure, including run-off-road crashes. The mitigation strategies for lane width presented in Chapter 4 focus on reducing the probability of these crashes.

> In a reduced-speed urban environment, the effects of reduced lane width are different. On such facilities, the risk of lane-departure crashes is less. The design objective is often how to best distribute limited cross-sectional width to maximize safety for a wide variety of roadway users. Narrower lane widths may be chosen to manage or reduce speed and shorten crossing distances for pedestrians

So I interpret that as narrower highways are more dangerous, and they have standards to reduce speed to account for that. To go back to my original point - even if you narrowed the lanes and reduced the speed limit to say 45 instead of 55 - people are still going to speed. And they're going to get into more accidents if the lanes are narrower. They already drop the speed limit on most of I-376 to 55 as opposed to the "normal" 70mph, to less than desirable effect.

The only place I see people regularly not speeding on 376 is the business loop around the airport, because International Drive is or has been the #1 speed trap in the state. I pass it daily on my commute. It actually drops down to 40mph as you approach University Blvd and they enforce it. Otherwise, to paraphrase R Kelly, speed limit ain't nothin but a number.

> Narrow the lanes for starters. The US had absurdly wide lanes already. They do this successfully in plenty of countries in Europe.

Narrowing lanes is another city/urban traffic calming strategy (which I am in favor of). I can't find it being applied on any highways. If you can link me a source I'll stand corrected.

So I know you're exaggerating but the interstate highway system was literally created to address the inadequacy of existing highways in the event of war to evacuate citizens and move nukes around. There are certain standards they have to adhere to - for example the S-bends on I-79 between Robinson and Neville Island have a lower speed limit and rollover warning because they exceed those tolerances due to having to snake through the hills. And trucks regularly flip there, still.

> issues “violations” which cannot affect a driver’s record

Well shit, that's stupid. There was an old thread where some guy mentioned that he sped through one of the auto-enforced work zones every day for like 2 weeks and I was like "bye bye license", I guess not.