Man already got punished by having his car stolen and his child kidnapped. Criminal charges seem to be just piling on at that point.

I don't think I believe that (it feels like piling on someone who's going through a lot), but I sure wish they wouldn't do it. Or maybe that people would stop trying to steal each other's cars. Either one would mean no more stories like this.

Please stop doing this, people. Leaving your child in a running car is incredibly dangerous. I really hope they find that kid safe.

Thanks for the heads up. It never occurred to me that that part is actually structural and there could be real issues with the removal.

I'd take them down to that Miracle on 13th Street. Bring a stroller and walk through so they can gawk at the lights. It's really impressive.

I'm on the 1300 block of North 29th. I assume that the covering meant that the work was going to be expensive, but if it's a 3K or so paint job, that gives me some hope.

It was always part of the plan when I bought the house. But the work seems so specialized that I don't even know: it could be a thousand dollar job or thirty. I just have no clue.

I would (and do) feel fine. Again: I'm actively advocating for the parking fees to be so high that a significant number of people decide it's not worth it and get rid of their cars. My wife and I and my kids can take a bus just fine like people do in urban areas all over the world.

I don't know about you (or anyone else who apparently just has to do whatever they're told), but I've been told since grade school that we can't keep driving the way we do because of climate change. Now we're seeing the effects of that in real-time but people keep making excuses for why they just won't try to cut back on driving.

If people were incentived to do this, they can be incentived to do differently. I'm not special; if I can figure out how to do without a car, everyone else can, too.

And one more time for the kids in the back: I hope they do raise the parking price so high I can't afford it. If a candidate comes up for office promising that, I'll vote for them. I support making driving harder and more expensive and transit cheaper, easier and better in literally every single circumstance.

The idea that you need to get buy-in from everyone on the block for the city to regulate use of public space is one of the top ten most absurd things city government does. It's infuriating.

That's the nature of living in a city; there's not always room to store your private property on public space. Whether I like it or not, there's limited space. I own only a small piece of it; It's unreasonable for me to expect that I'll be able to use other pieces of it for free. I have a car, and I would be in favor of the parking permit price going up by at least 20 times. Fuck cars; our city would be better without them.

My family of four does own one car. If my wife felt safer biking on 29th St and Girard Ave, I'd sell it and buy a cargo bike. The last time I had a car of my own was in 2014.

The answer's not fewer people. It's fewer cars. We need homes for more than we need places to store our empty cars.

My house was the same way. I actually forgot that they could get an ok from the previous owners. I think it's a bad system to rely on the previous owner, since they have very low incentive to help. An executed lease or settlement paperwork for the house should be sufficient. Of course, it barely matters right now because the passes are priced below cost, anyhow.

It may be reasonable to have two cars, but facts is facts: two cars are wider than a row house. If everyone had two and only parked in front of their own house, we'd run out of room. We have the space we have.

Ever seen Strangers on a Train? That's what you need, my friend.

I know this is tough for the PPA, but they could possibly use discretion and allow you to demonstrate that you just purchased the home/rented the apartment and invalidate the old pass. Probably there's a better solution I haven't thought of.

No excuses, the parking pass for multiple cars registered to the same address need to cost waaaayyyyyyy more (and the third and fourth more expensive still).. Four per household is unsustainable.

No, this is 30th just north of Girard. Although they have been digging up the trolley tracks to replace them.

Cabot St, eh? I used to live there, too and I can't imagine how you folks managed.

I live on North 29th Street, so the 20 mph speed limit is a no-go, but those curb bump-outs sound sweet as shit. Is the city saying that they only want to do those in full-out Slow Zones? It seems like they have much wider possibilities.

Not sure if you read the story, but it specifies that these violations are not on the list of things that can no longer be the primary reason for a stop. Expired/forged temporary tags are still able to be the reason for the stop. There are several paragraphs about it and everything in the article.

That's true for injuries (which the OP's coverage would have covered through the first-party medical benefits first). PA doesn't have uninsured Property Damage coverage; that would go through the OP's Collision coverage (with a deductible, of course).

If it's possible, you should try to start the insurance claim with the other guy's insurance at the scene. That way, the carrier will tell you if the policy number is fake, at least.

It seems that the bottom line of all these crime stories is: the Philadelphia Police, in spite of being funded to the tune of nearly a billion dollars per year, are embarrassingly incompetent when they even bother to do their jobs. How hard is it to notice a fake/expired temporary tag? Or someone covering their license plate? Or to understand that the law doesn't prevent law enforcement from making stops for those things?

That Gray's Ferry McDonald's should have been a historic landmark because of ODB.