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I think the ticket requirement should be made exempt for cars parked on the sidewalk. Maybe even try like a one-month period of it to see what happens. It’s such a black and white violation that a ticket isn’t necessary.

My understanding is, by state law, one cannot park (or stop) in a travel lane, but bike lanes are not considered travel lanes and thus state law is sorta silent.

Under Phila ordinance, § 12-913(1)(c)(2) you can park there for the stated 20 minutes. Coincidently, Pittsburgh just changed this not to long ago to "fix the glitch."

All to say, City Council can fix this in like 3 months - they just refuse to.

All Kenney did really was get rid of people parking on the sidewalk around city hall.

I think a really easy solution would be to remove the ticket requirement for towing cars on the sidewalk. I think if they loosened it to covering cars blocking ramps and other requirements like they used to tow companies may take advantage and go back to their scummy ways. But parking on the sidewalk is so cut and dry and think removing the ticket requirement would be an easy fix.

I stand corrected. That's a truly horrible law; a bike lane is not at all safe if you have to leave it to get around cars stopped in it. That's how that 3 year old in Chicago got killed.

I know they tend to go to construction sites that hired non-union labor from the onset. I wouldn’t call it scab labor (although they may) since it wasn’t like they were hired originally then replaced.

Lol I ate shit last night in Manyunk on my bicycle after crashing because of a poorly maintained curb.

Kenney ran on a promise to improve sidewalks and yet did very little on the issue, pretty much describes his entire term

But a little less snarky and more on topic, I personally didn't realize how bad of shape the sidewalks are in until I started pushing a stroller around. Contractor's who close off sidewalks without the pedestrian chute should be fined out of existence.

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For me it’s usually the time. Local coffee shops tend to open later.

I never understood why they bring out the scab rat when they lose an open shop project. I would never cross a picket line but like bro your bid lost, that's not strike breaking. You won't win every project, it's an inescapable reality of the construction industry.

Alleys in Philly tend to range somewhere between drivable and something like this (although usually if they're this narrow, they punch through the block or connect in a T to one that does).

Ryan Howard feels personally attacked.

There are gargoyles on the church at 47 and Kingsessing. I don't have a picture handy right now though

Haha - I almost made this exact same post. I was super happy to learn this yesterday.
Instead of just milk, I went home with pop-tarts too.

FuWah - You rock!

It is allowed. Philadelphia law says that a place that is signed "no parking" you have 20 or 30 min before you can get a ticket. There are some exceptions, like you can't do this in front of a driveway (even your own driveway for 5 min while unloading groceries...got a ticket that way).

No stopping signs mean no stopping at all. No standing means you can stop to let people off, but it effectively means you can stay as long as you want so long as you are in the car.

"This is my first time having chicken and waffles" starter pack

My heart skipped a beat when I saw "Fu-Wah ... after 40 years" and my brain filled in the blanks that they were closing.

I was trying to avoid that point, but I actually agree - sorry if it didn't come across that way. It is still a childish thing to do in many (most?) cases.

ETA: I mostly think all people really want is to be put the way they were before anything happened. Chief among them being members of most religious institutions.

As far as I'm aware, that "they have 20 minutes" is both informal and bullshit.

Edit: I've subsequently been advised that the 20 minute rule is actually formal and bullshit. I apologize for the error.

That fuck is still parked in the crosswalk? That just should have been an automatic tow, but that would make too much sense.

Police can ticket cars, too. They just choose to pretend they don't see the problem.

Ma lessie’s in the market!!!!!! jesus CHRIST it hits so good

Yep this is the reason.

There are a lot of inactive fountains all over the city in various parks that haven't been turned on in decades, all because the city doesn't give a shit about them and puts in no effort to maintain them.

Much of center city is decent to even good. There's a few glitchy spots (missing/perilously steep curb cuts in places, construction in others). And of course the problem of vehicles parking on sidewalks/blocking curb cuts/crosswalks.