This place is also great and I always forget about them!

PizzaPlus and it’s not close.

Edit: someone below reminded me that pitruco exists. They’re great as well.

They can start with enforcing the junkies who hop the gates and ride the subways all day long. Anyone who rides the El post pandemic will tell you how bad it's got with addicts shooting up on the train. I have seen a number of people just hop the gates in front of the ticket booth, seen by SEPTA employees, and just continue unbothered.

new build in fishtown? no time to read any details, need to go right to the comments section and/or my local facebook group to rant about how I'll never be able to park again

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My SO and I had our first date here, years ago. The bartender was new and nearly stole my license because it was out of state and they thought it was "fake" and apparently the bartender and the manager needed to hold my license hostage for half an hour while they looked for a tree or something to deem it real. I was so embarrassed and told my date, some random from Tinder, he was free to leave as 10 minutes turned into 15 to 20 to 30. He stayed, and eventually my license was given back with no apology, nothing. Just an explanation about the search for The Mysterious Connecticut Tree. Anyway, that guy and I are still together 8 years later.

City Tap was a typical messy loud college bar but it'll always hold a special place in my heart. RIP you beautiful bastard bar. I'm gonna try and go one last time with my new PA license and see if I get carded.

Abners is closed for good I think

There are plenty of logical reasons to have a car but not always an excuse for using it for every single thing you do living in dense a city. “Try septa” is not a ridiculous response to someone who just wants to have a meal in Fishtown coming from West Philly and didn’t indicate any mobility issues.

It would be, but I will believe it when I see it. I'm not sure if you live around Fishtown, but there is a beer store and Dunkin Donuts that has a sizeable parking lot right on Girard. In the 10 years I've lived here, people have never used it for personal parking until recently and it's steadily growing. That parking lot is now usually lined with cars of people who park there who are not patronizing those stores.

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Its a minimum parking requirement. The builder absolutely could include parking in this design if they wanted to. Ironically, what you're talking about is what builders face when they don't want to shoehorn in excess parking required by parking minimums.

Yep.

Yeah, but they point is I’m there isn’t much septa can do to prevent construction workers from idiotically taking down power lines and starting fires.

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That rant sure is...

This was my take "no no stop telling people"

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Yea its completely dependent on the zoning of the lot and the occupancy type. My whole point to that person above was simply saying that unless you decide to file for rezoning, there are many instances where its not a choice at all on whether or not to provide parking

that place sucks so hard

I’m pretty convinced the vast majority of the “just walk/bike/Septa everywhere” posters don’t have kids, take care of elderly relatives, have a physical disability, work a job that requires tools or supplies, regularly need to travel an hour+ long Septa route (excluding RR), have hobbies that require equipment or aren’t close by, etc.

Walk/bike/Septa is a much easier lifestyle if everywhere you want to go is reasonably close to a stop and when you’re young, single, with all the time in the world.

Once you have the sunk costs of a car that you need for any such reason it’s hard to justify spending time, money, and psychic energy on bringing a large family somewhere by Septa.

Or maybe some people really do like to stretch a 25 minute round trip car commute into a 2+ hour odyssey?

Anytime you do present a logical reason for needing or wanting a car, expect a “why don’t you just move to the suburbs?” reply.

It's a little small, but I like that about it

Yep, and it will make the NSHL accessible for a lot more people. Plus Delco might finally do something about 69th st

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Thanks, it’s as well as can be at CHOP :)