Both of your replies were my first thoughts. If you're looking at Maple Shade, I think Mt. Holly is comparable. Also consider Haddon Twp/Heights (Twp includes westmont). All those (including Cwood/Haddonfield) are on patco (and I guess Oaklyn is super close) which is probably why they'll be very expensive (easier to get to CC from there than Roxborough give or take).

The complexity is definitely adding to the job (but not 50K imho). That said, design work is expensive and what you might consider doing is doing a design separately and bringing that to a good contractor. You may also want to part out the plumbing work as well. Not 50k worth, but you're definitely paying to having all those types of professionals under one "roof".

You can probably get a few more quotes for less, but if you want a hands-off approach like this, you're going to pay for it. The perk is you don't have to deal with any of the permitting and other bullshit that might fit between the cracks of diff contractors.

My advice (fwiw), is probably to hire a designer who can do that work and also give you a rough price. Keep in mind, designers like to upsell finishes because, like all people, they prefer to work with superior products and produce a superior product. Also, I find designers to be OKAY at pricing, but not very good and understanding the market itself - so the price you might get from then will be VERY rough.

After you get the design, I'd shop it around to a GC.

This is where I miss Fox and Hound. For better or worse, this was their wheel house.

Federal time means doing 85% as well, so see ya in 2026 Bobby.

The 20 min rule. See the other poster above who explained stopping vs standing vs parking.

TIL

Just to add, I wonder how many average philadelphians (or pennsylvanians) understand that verbiage?

My understanding is, by state law, one cannot park (or stop) in a travel lane, but bike lanes are not considered travel lanes and thus state law is sorta silent.

Under Phila ordinance, § 12-913(1)(c)(2) you can park there for the stated 20 minutes. Coincidently, Pittsburgh just changed this not to long ago to "fix the glitch."

All to say, City Council can fix this in like 3 months - they just refuse to.

I was trying to avoid that point, but I actually agree - sorry if it didn't come across that way. It is still a childish thing to do in many (most?) cases.

ETA: I mostly think all people really want is to be put the way they were before anything happened. Chief among them being members of most religious institutions.

A lot of contractors don't have what I think are called sidewalk closure permits but effectively close the sidewalk anyway. In those cases, I think you need to offer up a ped walkway. It's even more infuriating when either the safest route is through multiple lights and/or the other side is closed as well.

Yes, in theory, one could "wheel" around it (and an entire city block) without issue (making assumptions about other sidewalks being fine), but in reality, we really need the streets dept. to be more robust, responsive and effective in making contractors responsible to our city's most vulnerable.

Just other pet peeves that drive me bonkers:

1. Cars parked in their "driveway" with a garage but the garage is full of shit so the car is parked in front and still blocks the entire sidewalk.
2. Cars parked senselessly on the crosswalks. I'm a pretty forgiving guy, but like, try to get both axels in front of it (this is the PPA's standard for the arrows, you gotta have both axels in front).
3. Bike Lane parkers. I know they have 20 minutes, but every ride home from work at ~5pm down spruce features at least 8 cars. Traffic is usually forgiving tho.
4. Double parking on 4 lane roads (Like Broad)
5. Just contractors on wash ave. I get it, but that road is still not safe for anyone.
6. Bonus parking pet peeve: Dudes in large pickups (at least F150s) who INSIST on backing into the dumbest fucking parking spots - usually in parking lots.

>Not saying Geno or Pat are the best but def serviceable

not enough people admit this. 24 hrs, relatively central location and the steak is fine.

Right - this is already illegal so calling it a hate crime seems like an attempt to impute a thought crime to someone we don't know anything about.

And frankly, I assume most graffiti is somewhere between 'art' (in someone's eyes) and stupidity/childishness (and not necessarily by a child). These folks should just have to fix it.

well, he's gotta finish with some touch-ups

My biggest regret is not spending a little more for a more robust/reliable car. Not that the car itself isn't reliable but I've had two "accidents" (one a straight up hit and run) that were not my fault that have been extra annoying because the maker in question cut corners making future expenses. Lesson learned for me.

All to say, this city is destined to destroy your car wherever you park it. So I wouldn't spend too much, but I wouldn't drop down to a cheap car because of it. You'll pay the piper either way.

Well, unfortunately, federal spending doesn't.

do they deliver to UCity/Chop? Otherwise, I agree - Rosario's is very good.

>I can’t imagine an expansion of those highways would’ve been a cheaper alternative and folks who live in the towns (or nearby) where they plan on having stations have been lobbying for regional rail for years.

I think this is a far more reasonable assessment than most. But the alternative highways would be federal dollars. I seem to recall some discussion of one of the recent omnibus bills including these funds and hopefully they're coming from there.

Each County (and the City, which is also it's own county) gets 2 reps. So that's 8:2 already. Plus the gov, senate min/maj and house min/maj each get a rep. Being generous, that's still 10:5 (giving the most credit to the gov and 1 rep from each body) in favor of the counties.

https://www5.septa.org/about/boards/septa-board/

76 was also a mess. Was driving my wife to the airport and Montgomery to the zoo was dead stopped.

On some level, it actually doesn't matter if it doesn't actually conflict if the appearance of conflict is there (and I think it is).

Counsel to a law enforcement body also serving as a counsel to various criminal defendants is about as close as you can get to appearing to be conflicted without actually being so (in a particular case). The Ethics Board makes a point of this in annual presentations to City Staff.

To that point, this statement by Krasner is one of the most shocking things I've ever seen a high profile and actually legitimate attorney say:

>“There’s a difference between an actual legal conflict and something that people might interpret as a conflict because there’s an appearance of impropriety,” Krasner said. “That is all completely separate from whether or not there’s an ethical issue.”

ETA: All to say, if you work for the public, I expect you to seriously consider the implications of even appearing to have a conflict. Moreover, if you want to ask, you can request an ethics opinion first. Obviously, he didn't do that.

Just guessing, but the history of organized labor and organized crime isn't exactly a new or philadelphia phenomenon, but arguably the most powerful and influential union leaders was indicted for embezzlement along with his allegedly hand-picked CM.

I think the tradespeople themselves are great people and I have hired many for side jobs, but the organization(s) haven't exactly left their reputation unearned.

>I'd prefer for the Inquirer to spend fewer words describing how aggressive or confrontational they perceive Nutter to be in these series and more words on the actual substance of the exchanges themselves.

I completely disagree. It goes to the substance and value of what nutter is doing. If he's putting his thumb on the scale, then just endorse someone instead of doing this song and dance.

Parker is the establishment candidate and I'm struggling to see how she doesn't win.

The answer to your question is, of course, no, without a temp closure or temp no-parking permit, the latter of which is fairly easy to obtain for small periods of time.

I would be curious if they have a temp closure permit. Also, some contractors used to stage on the street and use it to park during the day. Harder to enforce this issue, but it's become less of a "problem" since materials are much more likely to be stolen.

Not that this helps OP, but according to this, Kia will be issuing a recall shortly which will at least help owners.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kia/comments/10p76cz/kia_to_offer_an_antitheft_recall_for_kias_sold/

I appreciate your response, but I'm struggling to see how what Rhynhart did as Controller is all that different from say, Gym. In fact, I often feel like Rhynhart was wielding the office to run for mayor specifically.

Ultimately though, neither shows the public why they're better than another candidate (experience!) or why "their plan" is better than anyone else's.

Sorry to be all nihilistic, but no candidate seems to even come close to something I appreciate which is a Liz Warren style "I've got a plan for than".

ETA: I don't even like Warren all that much.