Why is it so hard for past citizens to praise the current Pittsburgh?? (McKeesport: homes, school)

[BrassTacksGal]

SteelCityRising, if you are crying yourself to sleep over the problems you perceive in society, please get some professional help. You sound very angry which often masks depression and the fact that you are crying yourself to sleep over societal problems definitely points to depression. Please get some help so you have a chance at enjoying your life. You're only in your 20's, with no familial responsibilities, you should be lovin' life and you are the opposite. You cannot change other people, much less society, you can only change yourself and your reactions to what happens in your life. Please get some help to learn how to do that so that you can enjoy your life.

[szug-bot]

Yes, I think he might be a little stressed out - driving way too much, dealing with rude people, and worrying about his future.

At his age, few everr realize the opportunities that will eventually present themselves (for career, for meeting new friends, for discovering talents you did not know you had).

[tclifton]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

I'm not going to idly stand by, though, and let people make the assertion that we're a "friendly city" just because we're friendlier than notoriously-unfriendly places like NYC, SF, NoVA, or Long Island. We're also not a city of "cheap rents" just because our rents are lower than they are in those same places. Not being part of the extreme doesn't make you the opposite extreme. It makes you average. Pittsburgh may have at one point been friendlier-than-average. Now I just view it as being of average friendliness. I'm sorry, but that's not good enough for me, and I'll continue to proselytize until people try to make positive changes in their own lives to correct that trend before we become a "cold" city in another generation or two.

For what it's worth, multiple extended family members have visited here from both Southern California as well as Ohio, and they've all made a point to note how much friendlier Pittsburgh seems than the cities that they come from.

[steelers1523]

the city screwed up by not taking the T deeper into North Side Neighborhoods. It is still essentially a commuter service rather than a way to get from neighborhood to neighborhood

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by steelers1523

the city screwed up by not taking the T deeper into North Side Neighborhoods. It is still essentially a commuter service rather than a way to get from neighborhood to neighborhood

They oriented the T in a really bad location when they decided to make Allegheny Station. IMHO they should have had North Side Station on the other side of PNC Park (on Federal) which would have allowed them to run the T through more of the North Side.

The way it's set up now, the best you could do with the T line is run it through Manchester. Fulton Street is doable, although if you turned 65 into a surface boulevard you could build the T right into it, presumably eventually extending service all the way out to Sewickley again.

[_Buster]

Originally Posted by eschaton

They oriented the T in a really bad location when they decided to make Allegheny Station. IMHO they should have had North Side Station on the other side of PNC Park (on Federal) which would have allowed them to run the T through more of the North Side.

The way it's set up now, the best you could do with the T line is run it through Manchester. Fulton Street is doable, although if you turned 65 into a surface boulevard you could build the T right into it, presumably eventually extending service all the way out to Sewickley again.

I wonder if they would ever consider extending it from North Side station directly north and then possibly east into the central north side, and leaving the Allegheny station as a spur (like Penn station was). Seems unlikely since it is underground there and would be expensive even to bring a new set of tracks up to street level . It would be a big boost to that whole section of the city. but i guess, given it's current state it would be called the train to nowhere.

[doo dah]

What if...Allegheny Station was a connecting station? Rather than have a line go from the North Hills to Downtown, have one connect to it and people could transfer?

[szug-bot]

I think ANY talk of a T extension should not happen without a study of the now old concept of the "spine line". THAT could/would see ridership 24/7. and the port authority would see no shortage of revenue, given there is assistance from the many institutionals...and, advertisers love colleges, too.

[Lobick]

Originally Posted by steelers1523

the city screwed up by not taking the T deeper into North Side Neighborhoods. It is still essentially a commuter service rather than a way to get from neighborhood to neighborhood

The City had nothing to do with it. It was County government, with their commuter and game-attending constituents that established the orientation of the North Shore Connector.

[steelers1523]

Originally Posted by Lobick

The City had nothing to do with it. It was County government, with their commuter and game-attending constituents that established the orientation of the North Shore Connector.

Well then the county screwed up. Its just a pain in the ass because these projects cost so much money and that may have been their only chance to do something right for the foreseeable future.