what's your point

i wonder what they used it for

not many worse cases besides LA of a city intentionally dismantling its public transit for the sake of cars, is there

10,000 daily riders * 365 days = 3,650,000 riders per year * $5 per fare = $18,250,000 fare per year

$3,000,000,000 cost to finish / $18,250,000 fare per year = 164 years and 4 months to break even on fares, not counting maintenance costs

i'm onboard (hah) for viewing public rail investments as a cost of internal improvement rather than as return on investment equity...but this is such a useless addition to the existing rail infrastructure and the cost of it has to be looked at like this. it's a frivolous investment, nothing else to be said

personally i don't understand why the Callowhill cut is just sitting there unused, especially now that the new police headquarters just gutted the area under Broad. imagine the route:

• Spring Garden BSL
• Matthias Baldwin
• Von Colln
• 27th & Pennsylvania
• Girard Bridge
• Strawberry Mansion Bridge
• City Ave

heroin

we do when we expect the comforts of modernity. even if we overhaul all commerce to avoid waste, food and medicine still need to be kept clean, and reusing the packaging on that stuff or using degradable packaging is just unsafe

i agree. but which is more likely? a massive federal minimum wage hike attached to one of the biggest labor rights advances in the last century, or someone realizing that they shouldn't be dropping kids when their life is already expensive enough?

reducing is definitely the main concern, but it's hard when convenience is a major purchasing factor for working parents who just need to make sure they have the shit they need for their families as easily as they can. as long as people are thoughtlessly making babies (and abortion/contraception isn't easily accessible), reducing will be difficult.

reusing is very difficult when just about everything you buy, recyclable or otherwise, comes with cheap single use packaging or is itself cheap and made for limited use. this was easier when glass, metal, and wood were more common packaging material, but now it's all paper and plastic that can be reused, optimistically, a few times for limited applications.

so either we learn to get really good at recycling really fast, or we force companies to make shit that is actually durably, reliably reusable. or we convince people to be more judicious about where they nut

if we stop trying, they say "see, nobody wants us to bother with recycling."

if we continually bother with it and constantly make it known that our infrastructure and resources are lacking, they say "okay they want recycling so we should address that"

a city like Philly almost certainly can't enforce it alone and would require a massive urban renewal program on a state or hopefully federal level, but there needs to be funding set aside for aggressive resource management. a good start would be subsidies or tax relief for households and businesses that install some kind of well designed recycling bin that any dickhead passing by can't just toss their trash into.

the bartender

a guy coming out of a bar on 2nd street in old city got mugged