There are angel investors propping up businesses on Richmond. So, in short, yes.

> That seems inefficient.

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Indeed. Inefficient by design is The Philadelphia Way.

Here's a general outline of how to get, e.g. a new crosswalk or stop sign installed, or to get permission to plant some flowers or whatever:

• File a complaint with the Streets Department. On paper, Streets is responsible for all this. But Streets won't do anything unless a) they're legally required to or b) a District CM tells them to. In this case, you might want a "no parking" sign, or if there isn't one there already, or a "speeding study". https://www.phila.gov/services/streets-sidewalks-alleys/report-a-problem-on-a-city-street-sidewalk-or-alley/report-a-problem-with-a-traffic-light-or-sign/request-a-traffic-sign-or-report-a-problem/ Get your friends to fill out the same form. Fill it out more than once.

• After the signage is in place, report illegal activity to PPA to get them to ticket. 215.683.9775

• PPA may tell you they don't ticket there, in which case you need to go through 911 - you can text them! Yes 911, not 311. 311 won't do anything. Don't worry about clogging the lines or whatever. This is how they want you to do it.

• File a "roll call" complaint with police, and get your friends to do the same. https://www.phillypolice.com/forms/roll-call-complaints Enough noise through this channel, and you might see an uptick in ticketing for a couple weeks. Repeat every couple weeks as the ticketing subsides.

• Now that you've established a track record of illegal and dangerous parking and driving, contact the RCO again about additional measures like planters, bump outs, and other street treatments. Blow up their spot at meetings, get them to bug the CM about it, and keep contacting Streets. You might have an email contact at Streets by this point. Email them, as well as filling out the speed study form. Your RCO will probably want you to collect signatures from neighbors to show support for the changes you're proposing. The CM almost certainly will want to see the same.

• Consider running to be on the RCO board, or running to become a Democratic Committeemember, and you'll have an even more direct line of communication with the Councilmember. By now, you'll have the phone numbers of the people who can make these things happen, and you should call and text them every day until it does.

Hope this helps!

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This is what we voted for. We're all responsible.

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Believe me, I hear you — and maybe the Conservancy can help with getting planters or something similar, but keep expectations low otherwise. That intersection wasn't so much engineered as it just... evolved out of a late 1800s mess.

As for the Poplar/Poplar group, it's mostly a bunch of folks who live over by the park trying to nudge Streets and Parks & Rec, with mild success (Poplar Street's getting repaved this year, so some light fixes are in the works). DM me if you want to pop into the (mostly email) works, though!

Yes. There has to be council resolutions approving street repaving

> I really wonder what schools would look like if teachers and librarians were making say close to 6 figures starting salary.

You just have to go to the suburbs to find out.

oblig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJrVE0s4s7I

> Yeah, I was thinking something to the scale of those planters there were put in at 15th and Market.

that's a pretty big project, not just a stripe and breakaway bollard install

yeah, definitely put permanent objects in public ROW at your own risk and probably don't talk about it online

How else are insurance companies going to recoup all that cat converter theft replacement costs?

Maybe OP should say that

I lived in Fishtown and port Richmond for a little over 6 years. During that time I had the H stolen off my Honda (WTF?), a woman who was high as a kite slam into the back of my car at a red light (unlicesened and uninsured so that was on my dime), a hit and run that smashed up the side of my car parked in front of my house (I found the MFer and made them cover the cost but it took a ton of my own time and effort), windows keyed, and, yea I know it’s minor but, someone kept stealing my dam tire valve caps! I also had a woman try to pry my window open at a Dunkin’ Donuts because I honked at her when she was about to crash into me. No obvious damage from that one but the window never quite worked right after that. So yeah… that’s why your insurance is high in fishtown. When I moved to the burbs my insurance went down by almost half.

"No way to prevent this," says only nation where this sort of thing regularly happens

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Well I’m moving to KOP Friday I’ll see if my rate drops. Hopefully.

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I do that alot, don't worry about it

It’s not just city living, rates are going up in all areas because the number of accidents is going up, the severity of accidents is higher, and the combination of higher severity and higher costs due to part shortages and inflation are driving costs up

I’m…confused by this comment lol.

>library has so much more potential than just a repository for books you can borrow.

You kill imagination by preventing pizza 🍕 parties.

> at more public 4-year universities.

This would require the support of the other departments- as in encouraging their students to seek concurrent programs & curate.

Pizza could be a vegetable- if you wrapped a salad 🥗 in a pita 🪘🥁🛢🍗🥴

I didn't even think twice about parking my car in Fishtown. I moved up from living on Snyder where I was constantly paranoid about my car getting smashed up. After a year and a half of living in Fishtown, my car has gotten so vandalized that it's essentially totaled. I don't make a ton of money and it's an old car so I had extremely cheap insurance, but that meant they covered absolutely nothing from the vandalism. So now I'm without a car for the next few years at least because some assholes wanted to smash it up one night. On the plus side, I'm enjoying biking to work at least.