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Philly rock and roll baby
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What's the side dish that looks like a pile of brown sugar?
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Only since Nixon in my reckoning. Republicans were still the party favored by civil rights leaders through the 1960s. The political differences between the two parties are just completely different when you go further back than the "southern strategy" 1970s.
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Philly is also way poorer so $9 is unlikely to be appropriate. Monetarily, is it worth the hassle to charge a more realistic $3-5? Fully possible that the benefits pencil out over a long enough timeline that rushing into it is ill-advised, unless it's directly tied to tangibly improving SEPTA.
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Philly's CBD is clearly defined and sectioned off by rivers on two sides, so enforcement would be straightforward. It would be a massive lift politically - this city adores cars even though fully 1/3 of households here don't even have one.
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Onslaught basics are my go-to mostly because of this Swamp art
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She's always been an uninspiring, business-as-usual centrist.
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It successfully took wind out of California High Speed Rail's sails so it did its job and has been shelved.
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The targeted tariffs is especially nice
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Wtf do those two have to talk about?
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Btw the TubShroom family of products works really, really well. It works so well that it's gross to clean but it's just that much stuff not going into your pipes
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You should be able to take yourself to a doctor without driving. We should build cities with that goal in mind.
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I liked One Day quite a bit. This inspires me to give all the recent stuff a fair shake.
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Which is why cars in center city should be heavily tolled and some streets should be fully pedestrianized or bus only
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A virtuous cycle of making RR better and increasing ridership has to start somewhere. Highway tolls that fund regional transit is a great first step.
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Extending the trolleys to Old City alone would be a worthy project, imo
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Damnit :(
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This should happen, then we should extend the subway-surface trolleys out to run on these tracks.
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Agreed. An attractive destination for RR riders to use in the evening should was the good part of an arena in that location vs. any other transit-oriented use case.
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The more other people that drive, the less useful your car is. If you love driving or actually need to drive, you should champion infrastructure that gets people out of your way, like cycle lanes and robust public transit. The only solution to traffic is giving people good options besides driving.
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Here's the thing - on these Dutch roads, driving is actually *better* because of the bike infrastructure, not in spite of it. Because cycling is easy and convenient, not every single asshole in the city is trying to drive absolutely everywhere for every trip and fighting for parking.
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Yes, humans are deeply irrational and can be easily manipulated into making better or worse decisions with only trivial barriers
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>:(
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it is, effectively, a view that nothing should be done to solve any problem if there might be a trade-off somewhere for someone who you could code as “marginalized.” it is just anti-government conservatism with a different aesthetic!
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It snowing has to be part of it, right?