Double talk
The mayor and City Council talk out of both sides of their mouths when they discuss affordable housing. They banter all kinds of ideas on the subject. Yet they allow the Sheriff’s Office to sit in a glut of affordable houses by not running sheriff sales. It’s time to remove the Sheriff’s Office from the sales process and get those abandoned houses in the market. It will improve the city in at least three ways. First, it makes the abandoned house into a viable residence. Secondly, removal of the abandoned house will improve the values in the area. Thirdly, it would create some affordable housing.
Richard Donofry
East Torresdale
Boulevard Subway is BS, fix Verree
Again, what is the fascination with building this rail and/or subway system on the Boulevard?
City Council is so anxious to spend that infrastructure money they got, it’s burning a hole in their pockets, they can’t spend it fast enough.
“Stop the B.S.” post on Maureen McDevitt Greene’s Facebook is right, the whole idea of a subway on the Boulevard is unnecessary, which would cause massive traffic delays for decades during construction.
Especially now with the horrific events that happened with the tragic plane crash at the Roosevelt Mall.
It was a traffic nightmare that night traveling on and around the Boulevard near the crash site, let alone if there was construction going on to build this stupid Boulevard project. That night was total chaos and while drivers were trying to figure out alternate routes to get home, I went down Verree Road.
And let me tell you driving over that Verree Road that night was like a war zone in itself.
Driving in that pitch-black rain unable to see the road ahead of me that night, I was taking some vicious hits on bumps, potholes and uneven surfaces. I was cursing up a storm.
What’s it going to take for city officials to go out and survey the battered roadways in our neighborhoods that have declined over the years and start implementing better paved roads to drive on, instead of tearing up miles of ground to put a Thomas the Choo Choo Train rail system on the Boulevard like they were 6 years old.
If anything, after my ride that night, I would say to City Council, Do Verree!
I’m all in with the Verree Repaving Project and it would be much appreciated if all the streets of Philly are repaved with that billion-dollar purse City Council so dearly holds instead of wasting it on a subway.
And like Ms. McDevitt Greene has said, it’s a senseless waste of taxpayer money on putting a subway when it can cause unimaginable snarls of traffic and disrupt the daily commute as well as a project that will never end for decades.
But then again, here’s an afterthought. Since we are entering into a new era of AI technology, maybe Elon Musk will invent a levitation capsule like the Jetsons, and you don’t have to lay down any track.
Do the Verree! Stop the BS!
Again, prayers to the victims.
Al Ulus
Somerton
Americans are united for change
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It means our fellow Americans are hearing how new jobs and job skills would add to the well-being of American workers and America’s economy.
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The important thing is that Americans want to see at least a 50-50 balance of products sold in stores and on the internet available with “Made in America” labels.
Now that we are more united for change and see changes happening, let’s keep the movement going strong by getting more people involved so business owners and investors see that America’s consumers will reward American-based businesses by supporting their products and services.
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Michael Blichasz
Torresdale
