The cvst is a better investment. 15 miles for $1billion and the first half already has 3000 trucks a day and it’s a growing area with many distribution centers and the 81 is ten times more congested. The mon fayette should go down as one of the dumbest highways ever constructed. If they had started building it at the monroville end first, it would have been easier to cancel or indefinitely delay the rural segments but those fuckers screwed us and built the most useless parts first. I wonder what the total cost for all segments of the mon fayette costs inflation adjusted.

It takes trucks out of lewisburg shamokin and selinsgrove. It’s a good idea in theory but it became too expensive. The issue is it comes at the expense of underfunding major city public transit. Building rural highways is heroin to some people; they get addicted and can’t say no to projects no matter the cost. It must be easier to enrich your campaign donors building rural highways than inner city public transit not to mention inner cities are gerrymandered out of power and the state senate design is biased toward rural areas

What neighborhood do you live work and frequent?

Tell that to the 39 states that pay teachers less than in PA. I have a hard time believing there is huge shortage with how elderly the state has become. An issue may be that state colleges are the third most expensive in the country. PA is an odd states that plows dump trucks of money into k12 and hardly anything into colleges.

This isnt an unbiased peer reviewed source. There could be motives behind promoting the idea there is a shortage. Teachers will say there is a shortage to justify higher pay, while school board will say we need more new teachers to push salaries lower. Does anybody know what the actual supply demand balance of teachers is in the state?

I should have said some people. But a month for a two person crew? Maybe if they let the concrete dry for 3 weeks. $25k for a five star contractor and high end materials is probably market rate. My point though was market rate is inflated at the moment and might come down if interest rates continue to go up and the labor shortage fizzles. Cost of lumber is down 50% year over year. I don’t know what composite prices are doing though

https://trexprotect.com/blog/cost-of-deck-installation-how-much-does-it-actually-cost/

Labor 15-35 plus material 15-30 = 30-65. But we are in a weird market with contractors who are overbooked so they are charging whatever they want and making big profits. The real cost should be around $50 but he is getting fuck you quotes of $90 which what a coincidence is the exact number you quoted so you must be some sort of genius. $60 labor on an 18x15 deck is $16,000. Most people could build a deck themselves in a month just working weekends. These prices have gone bananas bc people are stupid enough to pay them.

I used $50 sqft. What is your point???

Those prices do seem a little excessive. 18x15 at $50 sqft would be $13,500. How high off the ground would it be? Is it on a steep slope?

https://www.trex.com/build-your-deck/planyourdeck/deck-cost-landing/

Your just regurgitating headline news. Do you even read the news articles to understand what’s actually happening? the railroad unions have always historically abused the impact of a national strike to get obscene benefits that drive up costs for everyone and presidents have signed laws 18 times in a hundred years to stop them from striking. The main issue is railroads run cross country and it is not conducive to people calling out sick on short notice due to the logistical issues that causes.

I get that without strong unions or labor laws employees are abused but unions go to far sometimes and have too much power. I’d rather there were no unions bc so many union members don’t know how good they have it and vote for Republican politicians that screw the rest of us. The best union is a union that advocates for every last worker getting decent benefits but so many unions today are full of blue collar conservative losers that will keep voting for republicans until the day their union is abolished and they make a pikachu face because they are in shock that the republicans they voted for actually despise them.

Almost the same as when banks give out money except they give it to white people instead of black people…:

What is the alternative? The more people who take an apathetic view like you, the easier it is for one party to be worse than the other and still get elected.

Republicans are obsessed with making it harder to vote and easier to buy elections, shift funding to unregulated charter schools, lets companies extract natural gas from our land without paying an excise tax, refuses to address climate change…

If you haven’t noticed the difference, you aren’t paying close enough attention and your take that both sides are the same is lazy. Democracy isn’t perfect. It’s just better than all the other forms of government we have tried so far

This sounds like your asking for trouble. Just pay it in the first unless doing so would be an extreme hardship

Those Russians are good at 3d chess…

No, it shows your inability to notice the differences and shows either you’re lazy or stupid or both

Because republicans are the worst politicians

Just because half the voters elect republicans that make shitty laws doesn’t mean they elect themselves

It’s amazing that you can find a way to still complain now that the state pension system isn’t barreling towards insolvency. Everyone always says they aren’t paid enough and usually they just have an inflated self worth. Clearly you just want a reason to complain about politicians every chance you get because you can’t take responsibility for your own pathetic life. Maybe we should just get rid of politicians all together and print magical funny money so tax payers can pay teachers six figure pensions. The politicians are our own creation and if voters aren’t intelligent enough to figure out which ones are doing a good job and which ones are only serving their own interest that’s their own damn fault.

Pa pays teachers the 11th highest salary in the country. Teachers in most districts make $90-100k a year after teaching for ten years. The pension benefits take decades to become real money to a teacher. The main reason they exist is because when population was growing it was easier to promise teachers money later in the future when their students are adults and paying income tax. Now that population has plateaued, pensions are a trap to keep unmotivated teachers working until vest their pension.

In Pittsburgh, the wind usually blows west to east with a slight northern tilt. This is called the westerlies and only applies to certain latitudes. The us steel pollution is more likely to blow north up the mon valley and blast squirrel hill with the the odor of the steamy fart instead of blowing east up over the river valley and over Jefferson hills into bethel park,

https://www.weather.gov/source/zhu/ZHU_Training_Page/winds/Wx_Terms/Flight_Environment.htm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_circulation

Yeah that’s the issue with some of these grant programs - finding a good steward of the money. I hope they come with prevailing wage requirements like government contracts. Maybe a thing like an old American legion building should just be purchased outright by URA and used for the community benefit

The lower elevations, especially the Charles st valley is the historically black part of the neighborhood and is in the worst shape. Perry hilltop wasn’t a redlined neighborhood. it did badly in the 80s which is a little surprising given it’s vantage point overlooking the city and it has decent bus routes but I guess most old city neighborhoods did badly in the 80s. Not too many American legion buildings were built in poor black neighborhoods and it sits empty now that old white people that frequented it have died off. Good for her for finding a fitting use for an unused building.

Here are some maps that show the top of the hill is still a mixed race neighborhood.

http://thetartan.org/2020/2/3/scitech/housing

Source from Wikipedia:

Perry South experienced white flight after 1960; from 1960 to 1970, the neighborhood's total population declined from 16,000 people to 13,000, while its African-American population, which had formerly been located almost exclusively in the Charles Street Valley, increased from 15% to 20%.[5] From 1970 to 2000, the total population decreased to just 5,200 people, of whom 65% were African-American.[6]

A specific post about bethel park is not a troll bot. But ewwww op is an eagles fan.

the amount of news and social media covering a specific event makes people more aware of the broader issue. Not everyone has the time or expertise to follow every issue. Tracking air pollution became is a hobby of mine after seeing family members suffering of asthma have trouble breathing. I gave OP some resources for understanding and monitoring air pollution in the future

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

Don’t those things give off some nasty toxic pollutants when used in an enclosed space? Some things should be trash. Asbestos is bifl but that’s not a good thing…