>I imagine the bike paths and trails aren't plowed or salted well.

They aren't plowed or salted at all, and most of the bike lanes on the street by default have all snow plowed into them.

The streets department doesn't bother to even to sweep the streets, why would you think they'd plow them?

Unless the patrol cars are equipped with plate readers and are able to automatically flag cars that have fake plates.

It's certainly going to help, but people won't be able to live at the site for a long long time. There's concern that the contamination goes so deep it could contaminate the aquifer.

Way past time that laws were changed and updated.

PPD isn't coming to most accidents.

Dig up as much of the contaminated soil as possible, then cap it with a massive slab of concrete.

Unfortunately this site is fucked for generations to come, it was a refinery site for 100 years.

The whole area is a super fund site, unless they build the park over a slab of concrete capping all that under it, probably don't want to be spending time there for a while.

Agree, that shit is illegal, there's no valid reasons to do it, and it endangers everyone else on the road.

Cars that can not pass inspection such as for tint should not be on the road, and impounded on the spot if caught.

Agree 100%, there is literally zero excuse for this, it should have zero tolerance by the state as the only reason someone would do this is to break the law.

It directly endangers everyone else in society.

I think the issue is more that the consequences for using fake / stolen plates, on cars with fake registration, are basically a slap on the wrist and small fine.

There needs to be laws that have actually enforcement power behind them. Cars with fake plates and or fake or no registration should be impounded on the spot and the driver loses thier license. If they don't have a license than they should be hit with a fine or jail time for illegally operating a vehicle.

Driving is a privilege not a right, we as a country need to start cracking down on the reckless driving that kills over 32,000 people a year, and injures far more. This shit has gotten completely out of hand.

The problem here is that the state laws about fake plates and registration are incredibly lax, which is compounded by lack of any enforcement.

In a sane world, or just any other developed country, a car with fake plates would be immediately impounded.

I don't hesitate to blame Krasner for the things he's shit at, but the problem here is that state law is very lax about fake registration, which is compounded by the fact that the PPD just straight up doesn't enforce traffic laws.

It's unreal how shit and lackadaisical the PPD are about enforcing anything to do with the vehicle code.

It's also crazy that the laws in the books for it are so lenient, driving is not a right, there should be zero tolerance for driving unregistered cars.

People don't do that, but they really should.

Cars caught with fake plates should be impounded on the spot.

There was even more in the article about how screwed up Delaware and Texas are regarding paper plates, PA should absolutely take action against them if possible.

The majority of people they're sending up from the south are here under asylum requests, they're not getting citizenship anytime soon.

Hard disagree, the Hispanic migrants to Philly are some of the hardest working people people in the city, truly going after the dream.

The immigrants they are sending are not citizens, they can't vote.

Good article from the Inquirer on how truly fucked the situation is.

Some highlights:

>criminal trades, what’s new is the flood of fraudulent temporary tags into Philadelphia from states with looser issuance rules — like Texas and Delaware. These phony plates have shown up increasingly in police investigations into shootings, carjackings, hit and runs, and car thefts. (In addition to counterfeit plates, thefts of auto tags this year to date were 2,378, a more than 60% increase over the same period in 2018.)

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>Philadelphia police officials acknowledge the department lacks automated plate readers and other technology to trace cars with faked tags. Nor does it log incidents of forged plates, or track those used in multiple crimes.

>Law enforcement agencies elsewhere are battling the surge of phony plates. Texas recently overhauled its car tag regulations and penalties following reports of a “tagdemic” that may have put 1.2 million fraudulent plates into circulation. Some have since appeared in far-away murders and human trafficking cases. New York City began sweeping neighborhoods for fake out-of-state tags earlier this year, and last month police in Yonkers pulled 42 “ghost cars” off the streets.

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>Delaware printing hundreds of thousands of temporary plates into circulation made fakes even harder to spot and legitimate tags easier to steal — but it is hardly the only state with a fraud problem.

>An NBC News investigation in Washington, D.C., disclosed a surge of bogus Maryland, New Jersey and Texas tags. The Lone Star State also deployed a print-on-demand system, but one so easy to manipulate that out-of-state residents were able to register fake car dealerships and issue more than half a million fake tags.

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>So far, there does not appear to be efforts to crack down on the issue locally.

>“They don’t want to talk about it because it’s embarrassing,” Giacalone said.

>Some police officers blamed relatively light penalties for emboldening the sale and use of bogus tags. Possession of a fraudulent license plate in Pennsylvania is a summary offense — essentially a fine — while making, selling or knowingly possessing forged plates is a misdemeanor.

I do like watching a chonky cat, something about them that's just amusing to me.

This doesn't keep PA blue, it only keeps the GOP from gerrymandering it red for now. PA is still very much a purple state that is up for grabs.

Good news. This should mean that the GOP effort to pass changes to the state constitution for an abortion ban, or changing the election for the state supreme court from general to district are dead for now, which is a great relief.