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cizzop t1_jaelxk0 wrote

Reply to comment by Fattom23 in ‘Ghost Cars’: Blurred Plates, No Plates on Philly Streets, Beyond – NBC10 Philadelphia by Fattom23

100% a lie. There are two people on my block who do this. I told the PPA guy I could even tell them the license plate number (it was sitting upside down on the seat) and they still wouldn't do anything. They said he wouldn't even bother because he couldn't take a picture of it.

I can't even blame the drivers. Why would I pay for permit parking when it's this easy to get around it and I can park wherever I want?

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bigL162 t1_jaeld7y wrote

Reply to comment by CoffeeCrisis in [Inquirer] Philadelphia collected $21 million in fees to improve pedestrian safety. Sidewalks are still treacherous. by Hoyarugby

>Can't the city hire a single person to go around fining the shit out of people?

I think that's the problem, they legit have 4 inspectors assigned to right of way issues for the entire city. The odds of being flagged by one of them is probably similar to the odds of playing the lottery and losing.

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rileybgone t1_jaeklhy wrote

Reply to Before the el went to Frankford, it went down Delaware Ave to South St to service the ferries. The portal was on Front St going north, before making this super sharp curve around a building at Arch and going down Delaware. Photos from 1910. by beancounter2885

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.

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BearBong t1_jaejm7n wrote

Reply to comment by avo_cado in PennDOT gives green light for construction on cap over I-95 at Penn’s Landing by PienotPi

Hijacking top comment here to share the Traffic Pattern Changes custom Google Map that I made when this news hit last Spring. I couldn't find any article that showed it on a damn map.

Here's the article that I referenced (and second) for the traffic info.

Unsure if these are still the planned routing but figured I'd share bc I was looking at buying a place and wondered what streets would get extra traffic. But here I sit in my rented spot, hoping this is of value to other Philly fam

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ten_cent_toaster t1_jaeirxk wrote

Reply to ‘Ghost Cars’: Blurred Plates, No Plates on Philly Streets, Beyond – NBC10 Philadelphia by Fattom23

There’s absolutely been a noticeable uptick in these covered plates over the last several months. And honestly I don’t understand how this isn’t just free money for the PPA/PPD. Ticket every car with a covered plate several hundred dollars, and if they don’t remove it in say 7 days and get caught again it’s a several thousand dollar fine and a lost license for 30 days or whatever. The only reason anyone would have their plates covered is so that they can get away with driving recklessly.

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SuspiciousOnion2137 t1_jaeirkw wrote

Reply to comment by phlwhyamihere in Philadelphia Ranks #17 in Schroders Global Cities Index by ColdJay64

My husband is a UC Berkeley grad who works in technology and he says that Silicon Valley wouldn’t have seemed like a natural fit for start-ups in the early days either. Apparently, what it had going for it was being close enough to SF to attract a lot of Stanford and Berkeley graduates and inexpensive land for building fabrication plants. The Philly metro area has some great schools that churn out a lot of graduates, is conveniently located on the I95 corridor, has an airport with direct routes to major international hubs, and each funding round can probably last longer due to the lower rents and cost of living compared to other major cities.

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piddling_around t1_jaeidpq wrote

Reply to ‘Ghost Cars’: Blurred Plates, No Plates on Philly Streets, Beyond – NBC10 Philadelphia by Fattom23

Was with someone that slid into the bumper of a parked car on an icy night in West Philly last year. Stopped a passing police cruiser so we could contact the owner of the car. Cops ran the plates. They told us the plates didn't match the description of the car and the VIN was ground off. Told us the car was definitely stolen, have a good night, and drove off. The car is still there. Thanks PPD.

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