How is it different? A tornado can come through and drop trees as well. Disease can wipe out trees as well. Fire ban wipe out invasives and some seeds need fire to germinate. Native trees can handle fire as well.

Fire is healthy which keeps the fuel load down. This logging may concentrate the fuel but the remedy is still fire.

Wildfires are actually good. It's the houses in the way that are an issue.

I think it's hard to judge the actions of others through your own personal lens.

1. Police funding is up 33% since 2015. Or almost 200 million even while the size of the dept has been reduced. (More vacancies)
2. 0 libraries are open on the weekend in Philly. So should we keep throwing money at police?

I think a drastic approach is needed. Remove blight in neighborhoods, build new schools and playgrounds, build entire new neighborhoods with local labor. Start a jobs program and teach new skills.

Unfortunately, you and I understand personal responsibility and how to live with others. We recognize long term consequences for our actions but these high schools kids do not. It truly needs to be a war time effort to right this ship. Like IEP in schools, the same system needs to be created.

My basis for this extreme help is realizing you just can't live in this world without money. Hunger makes people desperate. You and I might channel that energy differently but there's a whole range of different intelligence out there. That's why mental illness is found in higher rates in prison populations versus the whole population.

Sounds like you need a system designed to exploit certain demographics in order for your business to survive.

You're just spiteful for some reason. You're opposing a solution proven to work. But it hurts your feelings because criminals deserve no respect apparently.

That's not novel at all.

But in your situation, they get convicted and serve time. They come out poorer than when they went in. They weren't rehabilitated. There's no support structure for them after release. They go back to what they need to do to survive. The cycle continues. But that's the point isn't it? That's the whole school to prison pipeline. That's the whole reason for for profit prisons. That's why cops make so much money. Because crime pays.

It couldn't be the lack of police because they were abusing the disability program right?

Or the civil jobs the uniforms were filling?

Or their attitude "We run the city?"

Nah it couldn't be leadership telling the unis to quiet quit to spite themselves?

It's always politics. Tell Harrisburg Republicans to fund social programs in Philly better instead of worrying about abortion access, non existent voter fraud and trans athletes.

Thanks for proving my point.

I live adjacent to a 100 acre park with an active crop farm and people walk around it daily. I live 15 mins from a larger state park which contains crop Fields. Again, trails are right along the edges. There's clearly situations that allow these two things to coexist. The real question is why your tiny mind can't comprehend or imagine that real world use case.

Good one

Put up a split rail fence. You people are dense and never been outside.

Pa law says there's no liability for allowing a trail on your property.

Have you seen the trash on our roads? Do we never build another trail again?

Yes, you act like no farm has ever allowed an easement on their property.

And you saw trash? Oh no. Did you look on the roads as you drove there? Or were the roads magically clean somehow? I recently hiked at ricketts glen and it was very clean. Tyler state park, very clean. Newtown rail trail all the way to Roosevelt Blvd. Very clean.

You must be the old guy yelling at people to get off your lawn.

Do you not understand this or do you spin everything as negatively as possible?

I'd like the county and municipals to be able to work with owners of preserved farm land to install asphalt trails on the edges of the property lines parallel with existing roads. I said work with. Currently there is 0% chance of this happening because of state law. That's outdated and needs to change. We need trails. E-bikes are doubling every year in usage. People want to get out their house and take walks. We need fewer car trips. If your shitty county isn't doing these things, then butt out of the conversation.

When asked which trails have the problem with users "walking all over the place" you still haven't named a single one. If users of a trail are doing such a thing, it's a problem with trail design.

Starting to realize you're just a troll.

Seems like a lot of assumptions from someone who is probably also scared of cities.

Stay in the woods old man. It's a scary world.

Everything can be changed.

> Just imagine some dude taking a dump in the backyard of your suburban McMansion.

Never ever in the history of the world has a blacktop trail existed so closely in harmony with McMansions. It's never been done.

oh wait >Lower Makefield Township is home to an extensive network of existing trails that owe their existence to township ordinance regulations established in 1977 that require the installation of bikeways as part of new development within the township.

How much do homes in Lower Makefield Township, PA cost?

Median Sold Price

$585,500

You still can't name anything specific.

whoa, someone shit off the trail on a rail trail which is 62 miles long? They even offer guidelines on how to shit on the trail responsibly. Yes, totally applicable to a pedestrian trail through my neighborhood in suburbia.

Nah I'm good. I'll keep fighting for public right of ways containing pedestrian paths through my county and that does include using easements along farms and private property.

Why would you get anything close to "today's value" if the land was taken 40 years ago.

Was a road built? Why was it taken?

How do you think highways were built? Land was taken. Trails are much more responsible use of land than taking land and building a highway through it. And like any internet comment, you're exaggerating the situation. You're basing your opinion on some one specific example and applying it to everywhere. That's not how the world works.

I live in a suburban area with 2 million people within a 1 hour drive. Righting the wrongs of past development means making routes for non car users and there's a preservation law stopping progress. That's the topic.

Where does this happen? In a park? Dont step on the grass people.

>Eminent Domain: Although not desirable, and therefore not used very often, eminent domain can be used to acquire land. Eminent domain is the power of government to acquire property for public use so long as the government pays just compensation. The government can exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire property even if the property owner does not wish to sell the property. Government taking of such property is called a condemnation, or a taking. It is seldom used in part due to the need to show that the taking of the land does constitute public use.

Read the studies :)

Go read the feasibility studies for each proposed trail. They discuss this. You're not stating some little know fact. Oh wow, a county won't construct a trail on land they don't own the rights to construct on? No way. Who would have guessed. Roads and highways have been built through farms for decades. Can I get a trail along the outer edge? NO WAY!

https://www.buckscounty.gov/400/Trails-Program

>Much of the land within the study area is publicly held which minimizes the need for easements. However, in some cases, easements or land acquisition will be required to secure the right-of-way for the trail. For instance, there is the potential for routes to run through school district, homeowner association, or privately held lands. Easements or acquisitions will need to be obtained from these landowners to develop the trail network.

Where are you referring to? You must have firsthand experience.

I've been on rail trails, forest trails, canal towpaths and I've never witnessed anything like this.