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SouthPhilly_215 t1_jdsq0gm wrote

None of the people who worked at this place needed a beer garden or a dog park or a bike lane. Lol. 👍🏼

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givemesendies t1_jdy14qc wrote

I'm sure none of them like beer or dogs. It's weird how no one has ever liked those things before the last 20 years. Don't even get me started about this new invention called "the bicycle".

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SouthPhilly_215 t1_jdzg8yv wrote

The bicycle should suck the automobile’s d!€k for bringing paved blacktop and asphalt roads into the mainstream with no cobblestones, brick pavers, wooden block pavers, and piles of horse manure everywhere bikes to exist on in the first place..

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givemesendies t1_je0jgtt wrote

My car doen't have a dick, but if you have some sort of seat add-on for when you drive 3 blocks for groceries send me an amazon link

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SouthPhilly_215 t1_je1j0ac wrote

Ahh but you DO have a car though… Like all the rest of the people who moved here, brought their cars with them.

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givemesendies t1_je2okfd wrote

Yes, but I prefer bike or walking for moving around in the city. I'm not sure why you hate bike lanes so much. Bikes means less traffic. Plus, if people could get around safely on bikes, they wouldn't have to spend all their money on cars. I always see you talking about how we should help the poor instead of building bike lanes, but bikes are WAY cheaper than cars and would make a lot of peoples financial life easier.

A beater car is $3000, will need a ton of money to keep going, and needs inspection and insurance and other bullshit. $3000 gets you an a high quality ebike that will need $200 of maintenance a year, and no insurance or gas. Hell, you could get a bike for 1000 and save the other 2000.

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SouthPhilly_215 t1_je2v40v wrote

I actually use an Apollo City scooter quite a bit friend. And I grew up riding my bike all over the city. We were taught that sharing the road doesn’t mean you can ride in the center of the street and slow up buses, trucks, cars, trolleys etc. The new influx interprets it as everyone should crawl at 10mph till they turn off of the street. People who claim to be super outgoing about using their bike or public transit for “most” of their commuting needs still seem to have brought their vehicles to town with them and, even though they may pay for a parking permit, just hoard the same parking spot for an inordinate amount of time. (Sometimes months!) Because a police vehicle or some other delivery vehicle, trash truck, or cab pulls over into the bike lane (usually in consideration of letting traffic pass more easily) doesn’t mean that vehicle should be kicked, spit on, or have some other mischief done to it while bikers/scooters ride by. (Yes this is a thing that happens more often than you’d think.) In the time it takes for some people to stop their bike, pull out their phone, take a photo, write some complaint, and then post it, they could have been blocks past the so called obstruction.

Its alarming any time a pedestrian or bike rider gets injured or killed in an accident. But when I observe more outrage and activism over further enhancing a comfortable and safe biking experience while anti-violence measures gets less energy.. While educating the city’s poor students gets less energy.. Idunno man.

It really has been great to see a lot of the basketball courts and athletic fields around town get long awaited makeovers. But sometimes it seems like ya can’t get the support you need to get the project backed by these newfangled neighborhood associations unless you offer a dog park as a bargaining chip. Or a cumbersome pavement “enhancement”…. Yeah we’ll fix the block but you gotta let us clog the artery. Hahaha. Its slick.

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