The thing that makes me crazy about this is.. where are they in a hurry to go? They're literally just patrolling most of the time. I sorta get why someone wants to run reds and not wait, but seriously, if PPD are just blatant scofflaws, not sure why we expect better from anyone else.

Page 5 of this should get you an idea.

Selecting a similar size (in “freedom units”), a #6x2” is listed as having a shear strength of 265lbs. That’s about 120kg…

But just to be clear, you’re basically talking about 3kg per clip, and .75kg per screw, pretty sure you’ll be OK.

It’s not clear how the screws are mounted, if they are parallel to the tile, then you’re talking about shear strength, if they are perpendicular, you’re talking about tensile strength (and really, more concerned with “ultimate pull out load”).

But in either case, as long as you’re screwing in to something solid like a joist or stud, I wouldn’t worry about the screws.

It should cost $0 to ride SEPTA.

The city profits through increased economic activity, but this is not easy to measure, especially not by SEPTA.

Some of the funding that goes into maintaining roads should go to reducing volume/wear on those roads (i.e. get more traffic off of the roads).

I don't think that enforcing a nominal fare would help with the homeless/drug issue at all. Look at the corridor to the PATCO from Walnut-Locust - that's "public space" and doesn't require a fare to get in.

Perhaps just deciding that a place to sleep, shit, and shower is a human right would go further than trying to lock people out of train stations.

As far as I know, you can’t get a mortgage if you can’t get insurance.

The insurance company has a lot of data about geographic issues that could generate a claim (such as a pocket of housing built over a creek).

The OP story sounds scary, but they caught the issue, and there are so many different gates you have to go through when buying a house with a mortgage that I think these types of horror stories are the exception, not the rule.

The fallacy in your argument is that the average home buyer has the time or expertise to (critically) evaluate different home inspectors.

Do they need to hire an inspector? Yes.

Should the inspector have insurance and a certification? Yes.

Beyond getting recommendations from friends and your real estate agent, the typical home buyer mostly “doesn’t know what they don’t know.” - which is why they’re paying $500 to someone to do a basic walkthrough of a house.

This extends to all sorts of areas of our lives where it’s basically impossible for an individual to be fully informed, at some point we make a judgement call and make a decision.

Just like parking on Chadwick.

Yes, I understand that, if you have a septa key in the wallet. But being able to pay without an account/app is what we were talking about. The system could do both.

Holy crap, calm down.

You are barking up the wrong tree.

Apple charges 0.15% on ApplePay transactions. Note the decimal - that's less than a half a penny per septa ride.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/05/visa-apple-pay-fees/

It takes like 2 seconds to tap. Compare that with people digging around in their wallet/purse for the septa key.

I think you're being a bit pessimistic. The app does appear to handle transfers, which is something that I don't think would work with a straight up "tap to pay", as much as I wish I could just do that.

I guess I prefer that over an easier to use payment system, but it'd be nice if we could have both.

Ranked choice would help, especially for positions where we elect more than one person.