"More people, more problems" - Claudia Sherrod, president of Point Breeze Network Plus RCO opposing an apartment building 3 blocks from a subway station at Philadelphia's Civic Design Review meeting (which of course is supposed to focus on design, not land-use).

"They offered no cost estimate." The way NIMBYs keep throwing half-cocked ideas up against the wall without even pretending they pencil out or have subsidies lined up continues to discredit their cause. I'm not the only one negatively polarized into greater sympathy for arena.

Does a temporary parking lot fortell of a slowdown in residential construction in University City? Check out my latest article for Naked Philly: ocfrealty.com/naked-philly/w…

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People will really argue that cookie-cutter housing is bad, as if cookie-cutter turrets aren't awesome.

It's dangerous to look up what used to occupy church parking lots in American cities, because frequently it was something pretty great. 142 W 131 St Harlem, NYC Today vs ~1940

Nobody is going to focus on this, but these fare changes encourage riders to get passes and to utilize the Regional Rail system for more trips in the urban core. Both smart moves by SEPTA_SOCIAL. But still need more state aid of course. cbsnews.com/philadelphia/n…

People will often say a building is too tall for Germantown or Mt Airy, but there are already places like The McCallum there, and before Philadelphia lost hundreds of thousands of residents, there were actually even more tall buildings up there.

Transit advocates should be willing to admit modest fares increases help the political case for increasing public subsidies.