When I used to take visitors on the subway years ago, Spring Garden was always the reason. There are so many great pics to snap of the city up there.

I took my brother and dad on the El when they visited this summer when we went to Fishtown - specifically for the views (and convenience). They thought it was awesome.

The tower risings there will add another great perspective down Spring Garden! Exciting times ahead!!

SPRING GARDEN RISING

ah, beautiful 6 lanes of highway...

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We didn’t see any of that, it was fine.

this is my vote for Smelliest El Stop

There are several large, promising projects planned or being built in the vicinity of Spring Garden Station, as those tower cranes portend, which I imagine are in significant part attributable to its presence.

Unfortunately, Spring Garden Station sucks. It's not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act and even if that doesn't stop you, it sits in the middle of the Delaware Expressway and is reached from miserable, uninviting even outright hostile entrances. It's far better that a station be there than not, but not by as much as it should. I'm not even sure how it could be feasibly made accessible and inviting. Neither of those are traits of highways, which largely define the area and station.

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