Yeah it's not a great thing but there's always a material explanation as to why thing are the way they are. And temple, while important, is currently functioning like a tumor. Devouring the neighborhood and providing little to nothing for the local working class. Maybe some okay paying jobs at best while not allowing any true upward mobility.

Student safety isn't prioritized when students decide to flip cars before an eagles game. They want to talk about the life long residents they also need to talk about their students' wrecklessness off campus. It's not acceptable for their students to be dickheads just because it's north philly

My point exactly. They want to talk about residents of north philly they also need to address their own students who think north philly is a place its okay to act like a dickhead

Temple was founded as a night school to help poor people get college degrees, only in the last 30 or 40 years has it expanded to be a large university. Temple has expanded its campus through a significant chunk of North Central and has displaced thousands and created a rent bubble in the neighborhood. The school doesn't provide enough housing for students, and many live off campus. Temple has a responsibility, written or not, to ensure they at least provide some benefits for north central and giving them access to 1 indoor food court is the least they can do. They dont even allow memberships to the library which is absurd every single liberary, university or not, should allow the general public memberships to access the extensive amount of material they otherwise may not be able to get. It's not like the students don't cause trouble either. Just during the eagles game a month ago, they flipped a car a few blocks off campus.

Temple is causing a lot of gentrification within a very poor local community and the idea is if temple is going to exist in North Central Philly and expand it needs to help the local community that it was initially started to serve. Temple was founded as a night school for people who couldn't afford to go to university and only within the last 30ish years became a large university. With that a lot of rents are being driven up because Temple doest guarantee on campus housing for its students. It prioritizes freshman and even then some people aren't able to get dorms. So a significant majority of the students live in rentals off campus, which is causing a lot of displacement. The least they could do is let the community access an incredibly small portion of the amenities they build for students

We have similar policies. This is a food court on broad street that contains a chickfila, panda express and a Starbucks lol it just happens to be located right beneath the actual dining hall that only students have access to.

I mean, that sounds pretty entitled. temple did decide to expand their campus in a poor neighborhood, not build enough student hous8ng so students rent up a lot of the housing stock driving a lot of people out of the neighborhood, the least they could do, the Least, is allow public access to a food court. It's not a dinning hall, you are not directly paying the school to eat in there it should be given public access

There was a point where the delaware ave el was around at the same time as the Frankford el. It operated as a branch up until just after the Ben Franklin Bridge was built, and the ferries became less useful. The ferries still allowed for a direct connection to the Pennsylvania-Reading sea shore lines from old city, which was a passanger train service that operated out of a Camden water front terminal to the shore. I think they went to cape may, wild wood, ocean city, Atlantic city, and made stops all throughout south jersey. Imagine something like the terminal in jersey city that allows you to take a ferry to New York.

Fr route 95 through jersey where it belongs and remove 676 entirely. Expand patco service to west philly to compensate

Or just capping it with housing. Either way would be great

Lol I know the code and I think there shouldn't be parking minimums whatsoever in the city limits

Eh I suppose but it's in the middle of one of the largest cities in the country. All adding parking, especially an underground garage, does is inflate the cost for no reason and cements the city into car dependency

I think it's pretty high given how much transit is in the area

Yeah and I was also shocked it even has parking given its proximity to good transit