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ms4721 t1_j98voj1 wrote

They park on the shoulder bc it's direct access to picking up the person once they are out. If you go to the cell phone lot, easy to get to, but you have to loop around to arrive at the arrival gate. Been going to the Philly airport for over 25 years now, it's not nearly as bad as it used to be when the cellphone lot didn't exist.

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TheFAPnetwork t1_j99hdvp wrote

To those who don't want to make 4 lefts, oh fucking well.

Seriously the Philly cell phone lot has to be one of the easiest to get to that not many airports have.

LPT: tell whoever you're picking up to have them call you when they've gotten their bags from baggage claim. Don't try to be some wise ass with timing thinking that if you leave ten minutes after the board says arrived that you'll be picking your passenger up. Just tell whoever is being picked up to call you when they've gotten their bags.

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DonQOnIce t1_j9awjne wrote

Your LPT is the one. I don’t understand how people even end up waiting for people they pick up in these days of online flight tracking and cell phones. The person I’m picking up can wait for me if the timing isn’t perfect.

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APettyJ t1_j99qvhm wrote

You don't have to "loop around". The road empties out onto the approach road for the terminals. Provided there's no traffic it takes seconds. Only problem is there often it traffic from non commercial vehicles getting caught in the line for taxis, Ubers and limos that bears to the right.

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ms4721 t1_j9jf7tl wrote

Oh, that still counts as looping around for me. It's not a direct road as if you were wanting on the shoulder before the arrival gate...

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CharlySB t1_j9abink wrote

I been going to the airport for over 35 years now, you don’t have to loop around from the cell phone lot.

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ms4721 t1_j9jf2kw wrote

How do you exit and go directly to the arrival gate? Tell me your secret!

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CharlySB t1_j9jfxmi wrote

You turn left

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ms4721 t1_j9jghza wrote

You still have to go around though. It's not a direct exit to the arrival gate, as if you were waiting on the shoulder right before you get to the gates. I know it's not a complete loop, as if you were exiting the airport and getting back on, but it's still more than just going straight.

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APettyJ t1_j9kedr4 wrote

The pushback to describing it as "loop around" is that it implies it adds extra time to a pickup vs parking on the shoulder, and it doesn't. It adds an extra minute to stopping, but once in the lot there is little to no difference in pickup times. The "loop around" only matters if someone for some reason was driving nonstop through the lot to go to arrivals, which Uber and Lyft drivers do have to do in order to access the the commercial road from where they make pickups, but they don't have a choicr tomdo what they need to do. However, if you are coming early to pick someone up, there is virtually no difference between sitting in the lot vs sitting on the shoulder, except one is legal and had vending machines and the other is illegal and dangerous. One caveat is if parked on the bridge shoulder, which is even worse but thankfully most cars are not parked there. Other caveat is of there is traffic on the arrivals road from the lot.

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Boostedforever4 t1_j9b15ht wrote

Been dropping and picking up friends at the airport for the past years. Finally realized why people do it. Additionally, you dont have to wait for the cluster fuck of a wait at that stop light where you merge between the uber and regular lane. Whoever designed that road an absolute idiot.

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