We can and should do this in a grassroots way. Keep large jugs of water, soil, planters and whatever we want to plant in there. Have a discord chat or something to communicate, and whenever someone notices an empty spot, mobilize whomever is available in orange vests and plant that shit. What could anyone say about it? The parking there is technically illegal.

EDIT: I’m not kidding. Vigilante beautification since the city has absolved themselves of any responsibility for this.

It’s a magazine written for the suburbs that, despite that fact, uses the name “Philadelphia.” No I’m not kidding.

Try SEPTA_social on Twitter, they’re very responsive and can probably answer this for you.

Not sure why the article calls the MFL light rail, it’s most certainly not.

Hey guys look, another completely obstructed crosswalk. But sure, no big deal. Guess people walking on that side of 12th can just cross the street to get to other side of the cross street so the drivers have a shorter walk to their destination. Got it.

This isn’t just about bikes, try being a pedestrian. Or do you never walk? Look at this fucking intersection I came upon in my neighborhood last week. Three of four crosswalks are completely obstructed by parked cars in the middle of the day. That’s absurd and fucking unacceptable.

No this isn’t true at all. They did give them a directive to not pull people over for certain violations (which i think is misguided, but that’s a whole other issue), but they still can very much do mundane things like ticket illegal parking and stuff. They choose not to.

Also relevant: cop in crosswalk at 15th and Porter

Absolutely. I don’t want anyone to get it twisted, this isn’t on the person making the delivery, but they should absolutely be ticketed so there’s pressure down the chain and people that actually have some kind of clout with city government start making noise.

from today at 13th and Chestnut. There’s almost zero political will to tackle the car brained vocal voting bloc unfortunately. Following this thread to hopefully find some hope.

Ok but the solution isn’t to just shrug and accept things like having to walk your kid in the fucking street because some jerkoffs in Dodge Rams or BMWs have blocked three of the 4 crosswalks. Other cities have similar density and don’t have this issue.

This would just encourage more assholes to hoard more cars they don’t drive, or to continue to purchase unnecessarily large vehicles, both of which are a huge part of the issue.

There should be a mechanism for them to radio it in and have removal of fare evaders by police. There’s a way for all of these problems, just not the will. It’s infuriating.

It’s not SEPTA’s burden to solve or even mitigate these problems. It shouldn’t be a controversial take to suggest that we should be able to take a train without worrying about being attacked, or stepping in excrement, or any other number of unpleasantries.

I have no idea how you think you my comment is racist, at all. The fuck? I don’t have hard evidence that fare evaders are the main problem children on the trains but don’t pretend it’s an absurd assertion. A train fare is $2-2.50, and there are subsidized programs as well. Let’s not pretend the people jumping a turnstile are just down on their luck or some nonsense.

Do tell. I find it hard to believe that the people shooting up, smoking on the train, etc etc are paying riders. It’s comically easy to bypass the turnstile.

I don’t think that’s the point. The same people that dodge fares are the ones that cause the most problems on the trains.

Proximity to many of the SE Asian enclaves in the city, and also tradition, if I had to guess.

Haven’t you heard? The entirety of the 4th largest city in the country is a war zone. Duh.

Temple and UPenn

The belt line is pretty fucking cool, I must say. Minneapolis has a pretty sweet city trail system as well

Imagine what the murder rate would look like without the two university hospital trauma centers that treat the clowns that shoot each other.

It was at 8th and Winton, but yea, today. Right before I posted this.

It actually looks like it’s up a block or so at Winton but yea T-Barr’s being shitty seems to be a common sentiment.

I dunno man, I see shit happening north of Snyder but south of Passyunk too. Maybe slightly worse on the south side but there’s just general shittiness happening around that area.