Kensington Avenue should be swept twice per day.

I've seen the street sweepers skip entire blocks because of a couple of parked cars

Seems ridiculous that they don’t. When I lived in LA, they aggressively towed for sweet sweeping…I had to sprint outside half dressed to move the car in the morning after forgetting about it so many times.

If they did, it would solve the abandoned vehicle problem within days.

I saw them clean near 8th and Lombard one day, spewing street filth on all the cars that hadn't moved, which was all the cars on the entire block.

No political will to deal with the blowback from people whose cars were towed

It's that simple

GREAT QUESTION

Because this stuff grinds my gears, I've done some amateur field research and I've concluded 80% of the cars on my (busy, Center City tree street) block move maybe once a month. I wish there was street sweeping simply so people would stop taking up public space with cars they rarely use.

Love it! Maybe next time they’ll move

We can't have that! What we need is more parking spo.......oh wait.

It's win-win.

Until there's real consequence they will not be moved.

Because the city still runs like its 1975. We give away parking for free, don't require people to move from that free parking for street cleaning, and our elected officials don't care because they're more concerned with stuffing their pockets with tax payer money and bulldozing the city to look more like the suburbs they'd rather be living in.

Like most things here: a few assholes ruin a good thing for everyone.

Yay I got towed today for "abandoning" my car (not using it for months and letting the inspection expire) but it's finally getting fixed and wasn't even that bad!

My car got towed for abandonment today and I even had a appointment to tow it myself to a mechanic :c

edit: I made all the wrong choices and paid for it and my car is literally back on the block inspected as fuck and y’all can fuck off now

SELF SHAME

it was <$500 of damage and I had huge anxiety around not being able to get it fixed

Ticketing cars over and over brings more revenue then getting them towed

How long was it just sitting for? The city takes forever to come out for abandonment reports and a car would have to be in very rough condition for them to just assume it’s abandoned otherwise

Well, the battery was done in by one of the last snow storms of the previous winter (March 22?), but the inspection didn't actually lapse until August. Tires went low and I'm assuming whoever did it knew exactly who it belonged to lol. I will take my lumps

edit: I drove my car home with PA’s blessing today and the only problem was my clinical procrastination. meds can only do so much xo

The mandatory 4k guy, u/scumandvillany, posted about this a while ago. I was just thinking earlier today how he has gone from a meme to a lot of people starting to advocate for the points that he has been making for years lol

There was a car around 5th & mifflin for months. White Durango or something that had all its windows smashed out, all tires slashed, and “TOW ME” spray painted on the side and it still took months.

They get ticketed?

The Inquirer had an article related to the lack of towing of clearly abandoned vehicles a few months ago. I think the gist is that things have been privatized so much, the city doesn’t have the trucks or resources itself to tow them. And the towing companies aren’t going to do it out of the goodness of their hearts…

Because stupid fucking assholes that park wherever the fuck they want are the second most protected class in the city?

The same assholes that talk about Philly being dirty and dangerous and fighting bike lanes and money for public transportation

Because the people that lived here in 1975 still live here, lived here through the 00s, and feel entitled.

To some degree, I get it, but the city could be better if change occurred.

To them, the only change they want is to resurrect Rizzo and appoint him emperor king

i have seen them ticketing on Thursday street clean day on broad. I am Sure ill see some again this week so i will get some pictures.

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They used to actually on city sanctioned street cleaning days, wasn't aware they'd stopped

You didn’t “abandon” your car, you abandoned it. Your car wasn’t street legal and was parked on the street for months. That’s abandoned.

I reported that one to 311 at least 5 times. I gave up hope until it finally left a couple months ago.

Sure, by the legal definition. I bet most “abandoned” car tows aren’t at the lot 15 minutes later to set the car free with a plan to repair it.

Paid my lumps and I know it was wrong, but if you want to argue about semantics I am here all night.

They did this on my block in Mt Airy and got most of the leaves but left big piles and there were no cars blocking at all 🤦🏻‍♂️

FWIW, Kensington Ave was absolutely immaculate from Allegheny to Berks today at around 2:30 pm when I drove down it for a work appointment. I’d never even seen my own block that clean — it was remarkable

I’ve worked there. It’ll be clean for about an hour or so before it gets trashed again. So sad because the workers do clean it well.

Spittin’ fire

What blowback? They won’t vote for them?

Almost a year? Come on buddy

I like the cut of your jib, random Redditor.

Because it takes 90 business days to get a car towed with no tags or inspection? And a certain vocal minority of people like it that way?

At that point, why do you have a car? It's cheaper to rent one when you need it than it is to own one for a year and never drive it.

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Because I used it every day before the pandemic and never knew when my work situation would change. It’s fixed now and it just so happens i have to go to KOP once a week all of a sudden

edit: and i bought it cash from family so no payments or debt

And now post-pandemmy I’ll be using it once a week with no car payment

That's not abandoned by any normal definition of the word.

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https://reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/108gg7x/i_finally_got_my_car_to_the_mechanic_after_like/

Wow, my car needed some air in the tires and an inspection and a new battery and they snatched it right up

edit: I got a lot of well-deserved shit today for how I handled my car but it was sure as fuck not a trash heap and it was ready to go with one hour of repairs

much to my humiliation and shame for all those reasons but damn my car wasn’t that fucked

>(March 22?), but the inspection didn't actually lapse until August.

You kept that useless pile of shit on the street for more than five months?

It was a fully functional motor vehicle with a bad battery and I live a humble townhouse life

Same in Brooklyn back in the day.

I'm sure your neighbors loved you abandoning your shitbox on the street for months.

No, somebody reported it and now it’s fixed and will be parked randomly around the block to everyone’s delight. Most people had a huge problem with parking directly in front of my house and getting home from there

90 days is a very optimistic way of looking at the way the city functions.

If your battery was bad, how functional was the vehicle? I've had a bad battery before and my car was pretty much useless until I got it rectified. Sounds like you left your ride to rot for months until well after the inspection expired.

>No, somebody reported it

So, one of your neighbors?

I mean I’ve made no secret about the fact that I neglected to take care of it because it was in front of my house and we had another car. I’m not proud of it and I paid all the appropriate fees for my negligence.

What else do you want?

by the way my car doesn’t have feelings and you can’t hurt my feelings by insulting my car

Yep

And if i knew who it was I would thank them

Totally get it. As long as you're on board that street sweeping is a good thing, abandoning cars isn't cool, and Kenyatta is total trash I feel ya.

Trust me I am going through a huge “what have I done” and I guess it took NSU to really make an impact. I’m not joking about organizing btw

Idk how it works for the streets dept, but for regular people you can't get a car towed for parking illegally in Philly unless it has been ticketed by the PPD.

My apartment complex has a huge parking issue and nothing can be done to move people who park other cars in and park illegally until you wait 3 hours for a cop to show up and write a ticket.

It’s common sense!

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Don’t you get a ticket if you don’t move???

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lol once a month? in civilized north jersey, they sweep twice per week. in newark, it was common to see people double park while the sweeper went by, then move their cars back right away.

imagine a restaurant not wiping off the tables because they're just going to get dirty again?

One of the issues is the many food giveaways by church groups each day. The plastic water bottles and styrofoam boxes end up on the street almost immediately. Clogs up the sewars every time it rains.

Also that inventory of cars nobody wants piles up...what do you do with them?

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Squilla almost lost his rebid when he took away something like 6 parking spots on 11th st when they added the bike lanes.

Someone unironically gave an interview and said "where will I park my 3rd car?"

People are lunatics about parking.

He's still a meme because none of the things he says make any sense unless you've never worked with a municipal, state, or federal government in any capacity, which I've also been saying about his policies for years.

the city auctions them every week

Im certain every single car doesn't sell and that eventually the cars pile up. But I'm not familiar with the process

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