The punk rock flea market is this Saturday and Sunday

Yup it sucks, cars should be forced to park around the stadiums and be banned inside the actual park, outside of accommodating the handicapped and deliveries.

For sure, it’s ironic that it’s a super transitable area besides all of the parking lots and highways to cross.

Sucks, but the prices were already very low IMO. My partner and I could eat pretty well there on $20 last time I went.

BSL and the number 4 bus take you right there as an alternative.

Probably doesn’t help that the T is totally fucked nowadays, almost makes me feel good about SEPTA.

I usually shoot for a few days of overlap. Sometimes that’s hard to do and I end up with a few weeks of overlap.

Also saw that new convenience market or whatever opened (Penn Market?).

Good to see, there’s still a lot more space in 30th street for new restaurants and retailers

Do this at all of the stations

I will say a bright color on bike/bus lanes does make me feel safer when cycling. I wish that at a minimum we could get full green paint on all of the bike lanes.

But yeah, I don’t really ride my bike in the bus lane even though it says it’s only for bikes and buses. It’s a defacto driving lane on Chestnut even where it’s fully painted because nobody does anything about it.

You could setup a literal single police officer to patrol the multi-block bus lanes and they would make a killing writing tickets…

It’s really amazing how we have 0 car free streets.

10th street in Chinatown, South Street from 6th to the Delaware, Headhouse square, 13th from chestnut to locust, walnut and the other cross streets by rittenhouse, the RTM underpass…

There are so many obvious streets that would have a dramatically improved QoL and business without cars.

Even Burlington VT, a city of <50k has the car free commercial street, Church Street.

Why can’t we even have this conversation in Philadelphia?

While biking the SRT I had a car cross over the path while driving on the grass nearly hit me.

They stopped right before and then just laid on their horn. Like are you fucking kidding me?

The entitlement of drivers in this city in particular is uniquely out of control.

I think it mostly circles back to years of 0 enforcement. Cops could make a killing on moving violations at just about any intersection in the city.

You’re definitely right about convention center visitors not exploring much beyond it…

I stopped by the flower show this weekend and a large group of visitors were asking an attendant how to get to the Chilis on 13th. One of the best food cities in the country and… you’re going to Chilis…

I know it’s anecdotal, but yeah whenever the convention center is swamped it’s usually only like the 3-blocks around it that are getting an influx. It feels to me like a lot of the visitors the convention center attracts just drive in and create a ton of congestion and pollution and don’t really patronize any local businesses outside of RTM, so I’m not sure it’s great for the local economy when you consider the alternatives that could fill that space.

And yeah, it’s usually empty which is why the underpasses and surrounding blocks are a bit seedier.

Fantes and Kitchen Kapers like everyone else said, but also General Kitchen in Chinatown by the convention center.

Love to see it, only 20 more parking lots in Chinatown to get rid of!

Yes, the pet policy on Amtrak sucks!

Looks like the max weight is 20 pounds for pet + carrier which is really restrictive.

Let the towing companies seize obscured/no plate cars from the street.

Anecdotally, it seems like 10% of cars I see walking and biking around CC have some form of plate obfuscation. I rarely see no plates, though I do see a lot of questionable temporaries.

We’re have like 10 hit-and-runs a week. Why do you think these people are obscuring their plates?

That seems off. Looking between the next 1-3 weeks I see several options <$80 round right now. If you leave later or earlier in the day there’s even a few options for $20-30 round. If you expand the timeline it should be even cheaper.

The Acela and NE regional will always be the more expensive trains, the Keystone Service is usually the cheapest in my experience. I usually travel in Friday evening and leave Sunday and haven’t ever paid more than $40 one-way.

But yeah it should definitely be cheaper. It would be nice if I could wake up in the morning and just spontaneously go to 30th street and not have to spend $100+. There is always the SEPTA-NJTransit route for that, though it’s about an hour slower.

Yup, you just have to book ahead. I usually have no problem finding ~$40 round trip between NYC/Philly a week or two out. The price gets better if you can plan further out.

It’s cheap, fast, comfortable, low stress and has some nice views along the way.

If you are traveling to somewhere along the NEC from Philly and aren’t taking Amtrak, you should be! We live along the best train corridor in the US.

Great news. Now cap the rest lol.

Parking for everyone means the city becomes a parking lot, which means we don’t have a city at all.

Less parking disincentivizes driving and gets people walking, biking and on public transportation. More people using those different modes creates a “critical mass”, which improves safety on virtue of volume alone.

Less parking is more room for businesses and housing, all of which provide more tax revenue for the city (which can be used to fund public safety!), and adds actual value to the community.

I get what you’re saying about safety, but your proposed solution of “parking for everyone” really just accelerates the problem you’re talking about.

“We need to continue to subsidize car use for non-residents at the expense of residents”

Short term rentals aren’t ideal but i can’t think of anything much worse than a surface lot.

Idk if this is sarcasm, but like 1/3 of Chinatown is parking

Did you see the Jersey Devil?