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tesla3by3 t1_j22300w wrote

PBSC Urban Solutions provides the Bikes for Pittsburgh. The same company provided the bikes for Denver. I think they lost the contract for Denver, so it would make sense to move the bikes to another city.

Why don’t they rebrand them? Who knows.

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tesla3by3 t1_j21z2gj wrote

It seems the same company that provides the bikes and technology in Pittsburgh did the same in Denver. Apparently Denver changed providers, so I guess the company moved the bikes to Pittsburgh. You’d think they would re-brand them before putting them in circulation.

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tesla3by3 t1_j1m7d0n wrote

55 is probably good if that can keep the whole apartment at that temp. If you have pipes running along an exterior wall, you may need to go higher. I don’t think draining your pipes is necessary, and probably shouldn’t be done in an apartment building, as the other units likely share that water service.

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tesla3by3 t1_j1er72q wrote

The South Hills did lose a division a few years ago, but it’s only the facility itself that closed. Workers and equipment were sent to nearby facilities, and they work out of there, doing essentially the same routes as previously. Of course, in some cases they have further to travel to get to their routes. And the Southern areas have been difficult anyhow due to topography.

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tesla3by3 t1_j0ltqb7 wrote

Agreed on this, but part of the problem is people rely on things like the online listings that show "estimated taxes" based on current assessment. Realtors should be upfront about the likelihood of the School District appealing, and tell the client to be prepared to pay the tax on what you paid for the property.

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tesla3by3 t1_j0lrdp5 wrote

The reason the county is not reassessing is 100% politics. A reassessment would result in a significant number of people (voters) having their taxes increased. Even if they coupled it with a decrease in millage so there wouldn't be an overall l revenue windfall to the County/School, there would be winners and losers.

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tesla3by3 t1_iybkbju wrote

Reply to comment by James19991 in Air quality question by oat_tao

The blizzard of 93 I was the only manager on site. I told my employees they could leave as soon as they could get home. Busses had already stopped, so some employees offered rides to others. Had already planned to shut down when I didn’t have enough staff to operate.

A bit later got a call from corporate to shut down,but the manager in charge had to stay. That was me. I had no idea how long this would last, so I went to the grocery store nearby for some food. Turned out I was able to go home in about a day. Drove home, took about an hour to go 10 miles. Got to within a few blocks of my condo, gave up driving, walked the rest of the way. Got stopped twice by people seeing my Giant Eagle bags asking what was open.

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tesla3by3 t1_iyb655j wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Air quality question by oat_tao

It's never been below zero continually for 7 straight days. At most, 2-3 days, and rarely. I'd bet we've never had 7 consecutive days where the low was below zero, let alone the high.

5 of the past ten years we never fell below zero at all.

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tesla3by3 t1_iyal8gi wrote

It’s a lot easier to coordinate lights either by timing or based on demand when you have a major artery with the cross streets being much lower volume. You can set the main road for a very long green, or only turn the cross streets green when it detects a vehicle. That wouldn’t do much in E Lib with major cross streets like Negley, Euclid, Highland, and Center. Plus pedestrians.

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tesla3by3 t1_ixz2emq wrote

National City was acquired by PNC. Antitrust regulators required them to spin off about 50 branches, mostly in Pittsburgh area, where both banks had a lot of branches. First Niagara ended up acquiring about 50 branches, but PNC kept the majority outside of Pittsburgh.

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