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GumshoeAndy t1_j3sapuj wrote

If they did, it would solve the abandoned vehicle problem within days.

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gnartato t1_j3sru2x wrote

We can't have that! What we need is more parking spo.......oh wait.

It's win-win.

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rndljfry t1_j3svz2a wrote

My car got towed for abandonment today and I even had a appointment to tow it myself to a mechanic :c

edit: I made all the wrong choices and paid for it and my car is literally back on the block inspected as fuck and y’all can fuck off now

SELF SHAME

it was <$500 of damage and I had huge anxiety around not being able to get it fixed

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justanawkwardguy t1_j3sya1v wrote

How long was it just sitting for? The city takes forever to come out for abandonment reports and a car would have to be in very rough condition for them to just assume it’s abandoned otherwise

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100dabs t1_j3syw6y wrote

There was a car around 5th & mifflin for months. White Durango or something that had all its windows smashed out, all tires slashed, and “TOW ME” spray painted on the side and it still took months.

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rndljfry t1_j3uodqp wrote

Wow, my car needed some air in the tires and an inspection and a new battery and they snatched it right up

edit: I got a lot of well-deserved shit today for how I handled my car but it was sure as fuck not a trash heap and it was ready to go with one hour of repairs

much to my humiliation and shame for all those reasons but damn my car wasn’t that fucked

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regcrusher t1_j3tshsd wrote

I reported that one to 311 at least 5 times. I gave up hope until it finally left a couple months ago.

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rndljfry t1_j3syryv wrote

Well, the battery was done in by one of the last snow storms of the previous winter (March 22?), but the inspection didn't actually lapse until August. Tires went low and I'm assuming whoever did it knew exactly who it belonged to lol. I will take my lumps

edit: I drove my car home with PA’s blessing today and the only problem was my clinical procrastination. meds can only do so much xo

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ell0bo t1_j3u90au wrote

At that point, why do you have a car? It's cheaper to rent one when you need it than it is to own one for a year and never drive it.

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rndljfry t1_j3ul5p0 wrote

Because I used it every day before the pandemic and never knew when my work situation would change. It’s fixed now and it just so happens i have to go to KOP once a week all of a sudden

edit: and i bought it cash from family so no payments or debt

And now post-pandemmy I’ll be using it once a week with no car payment

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GumshoeAndy t1_j3up8rq wrote

>(March 22?), but the inspection didn't actually lapse until August.

You kept that useless pile of shit on the street for more than five months?

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rndljfry t1_j3upfvw wrote

It was a fully functional motor vehicle with a bad battery and I live a humble townhouse life

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GumshoeAndy t1_j3uqcgd wrote

If your battery was bad, how functional was the vehicle? I've had a bad battery before and my car was pretty much useless until I got it rectified. Sounds like you left your ride to rot for months until well after the inspection expired.

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rndljfry t1_j3uqkiq wrote

I mean I’ve made no secret about the fact that I neglected to take care of it because it was in front of my house and we had another car. I’m not proud of it and I paid all the appropriate fees for my negligence.

What else do you want?

by the way my car doesn’t have feelings and you can’t hurt my feelings by insulting my car

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GumshoeAndy t1_j3ur21w wrote

Totally get it. As long as you're on board that street sweeping is a good thing, abandoning cars isn't cool, and Kenyatta is total trash I feel ya.

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rndljfry t1_j3urhk2 wrote

Trust me I am going through a huge “what have I done” and I guess it took NSU to really make an impact. I’m not joking about organizing btw

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deltavim t1_j3sboxq wrote

No political will to deal with the blowback from people whose cars were towed

It's that simple

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Rivster79 t1_j3u0092 wrote

What blowback? They won’t vote for them?

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courageous_liquid t1_j3ws5om wrote

Squilla almost lost his rebid when he took away something like 6 parking spots on 11th st when they added the bike lanes.

Someone unironically gave an interview and said "where will I park my 3rd car?"

People are lunatics about parking.

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PhillyAccount t1_j3sh52v wrote

GREAT QUESTION

Because this stuff grinds my gears, I've done some amateur field research and I've concluded 80% of the cars on my (busy, Center City tree street) block move maybe once a month. I wish there was street sweeping simply so people would stop taking up public space with cars they rarely use.

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innovasion t1_j3s6ny1 wrote

I've seen the street sweepers skip entire blocks because of a couple of parked cars

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AbsentEmpire t1_j3suub1 wrote

Because the city still runs like its 1975. We give away parking for free, don't require people to move from that free parking for street cleaning, and our elected officials don't care because they're more concerned with stuffing their pockets with tax payer money and bulldozing the city to look more like the suburbs they'd rather be living in.

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crispydukes t1_j3tc53m wrote

Because the people that lived here in 1975 still live here, lived here through the 00s, and feel entitled.

To some degree, I get it, but the city could be better if change occurred.

To them, the only change they want is to resurrect Rizzo and appoint him emperor king

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nnp1989 t1_j3s98oz wrote

Seems ridiculous that they don’t. When I lived in LA, they aggressively towed for sweet sweeping…I had to sprint outside half dressed to move the car in the morning after forgetting about it so many times.

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solipsisticsundays t1_j3svtde wrote

Like most things here: a few assholes ruin a good thing for everyone.

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thereisnodevil666 t1_j3tbvwy wrote

The same assholes that talk about Philly being dirty and dangerous and fighting bike lanes and money for public transportation

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Economy-Cantaloupe42 t1_j3sbnfs wrote

I saw them clean near 8th and Lombard one day, spewing street filth on all the cars that hadn't moved, which was all the cars on the entire block.

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ElectricTiger391 t1_j3syw4f wrote

The mandatory 4k guy, u/scumandvillany, posted about this a while ago. I was just thinking earlier today how he has gone from a meme to a lot of people starting to advocate for the points that he has been making for years lol

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courageous_liquid t1_j3wsfem wrote

He's still a meme because none of the things he says make any sense unless you've never worked with a municipal, state, or federal government in any capacity, which I've also been saying about his policies for years.

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TreeMac12 t1_j3s69lp wrote

Kensington Avenue should be swept twice per day.

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RoverTheMonster OP t1_j3tw74i wrote

FWIW, Kensington Ave was absolutely immaculate from Allegheny to Berks today at around 2:30 pm when I drove down it for a work appointment. I’d never even seen my own block that clean — it was remarkable

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dentduv t1_j3txaso wrote

I’ve worked there. It’ll be clean for about an hour or so before it gets trashed again. So sad because the workers do clean it well.

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TreeMac12 t1_j3w800t wrote

One of the issues is the many food giveaways by church groups each day. The plastic water bottles and styrofoam boxes end up on the street almost immediately. Clogs up the sewars every time it rains.

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kmanns t1_j3t7n5a wrote

The Inquirer had an article related to the lack of towing of clearly abandoned vehicles a few months ago. I think the gist is that things have been privatized so much, the city doesn’t have the trucks or resources itself to tow them. And the towing companies aren’t going to do it out of the goodness of their hearts…

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daveypop75 t1_j3wf7nw wrote

Also that inventory of cars nobody wants piles up...what do you do with them?

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imanAholebutimfunny t1_j3sw0vy wrote

Ticketing cars over and over brings more revenue then getting them towed

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phanavision t1_j3t69eo wrote

They get ticketed?

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imanAholebutimfunny t1_j3tdc58 wrote

i have seen them ticketing on Thursday street clean day on broad. I am Sure ill see some again this week so i will get some pictures.

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thereisnodevil666 t1_j3tb8wt wrote

Because stupid fucking assholes that park wherever the fuck they want are the second most protected class in the city?

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Fattom23 t1_j3u3n6h wrote

I like the cut of your jib, random Redditor.

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mortgagepants t1_j3w2s7n wrote

lol once a month? in civilized north jersey, they sweep twice per week. in newark, it was common to see people double park while the sweeper went by, then move their cars back right away.

imagine a restaurant not wiping off the tables because they're just going to get dirty again?

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rndljfry t1_j3svv7x wrote

Yay I got towed today for "abandoning" my car (not using it for months and letting the inspection expire) but it's finally getting fixed and wasn't even that bad!

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dirtymatt t1_j3tq8pf wrote

You didn’t “abandon” your car, you abandoned it. Your car wasn’t street legal and was parked on the street for months. That’s abandoned.

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41sa t1_j3ulfak wrote

That's not abandoned by any normal definition of the word.

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rndljfry t1_j3ttm52 wrote

Sure, by the legal definition. I bet most “abandoned” car tows aren’t at the lot 15 minutes later to set the car free with a plan to repair it.

Paid my lumps and I know it was wrong, but if you want to argue about semantics I am here all night.

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GumshoeAndy t1_j3upry4 wrote

I'm sure your neighbors loved you abandoning your shitbox on the street for months.

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rndljfry t1_j3upy2f wrote

No, somebody reported it and now it’s fixed and will be parked randomly around the block to everyone’s delight. Most people had a huge problem with parking directly in front of my house and getting home from there

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Fattom23 t1_j3u3t1b wrote

Because it takes 90 business days to get a car towed with no tags or inspection? And a certain vocal minority of people like it that way?

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GumshoeAndy t1_j3upz1n wrote

90 days is a very optimistic way of looking at the way the city functions.

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Indiana_Jawnz t1_j3uzmxe wrote

Idk how it works for the streets dept, but for regular people you can't get a car towed for parking illegally in Philly unless it has been ticketed by the PPD.

My apartment complex has a huge parking issue and nothing can be done to move people who park other cars in and park illegally until you wait 3 hours for a cop to show up and write a ticket.

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acmpnsfal t1_j3tnb77 wrote

They used to actually on city sanctioned street cleaning days, wasn't aware they'd stopped

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Darius_Banner t1_j3w13n4 wrote

Don’t you get a ticket if you don’t move???

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dearjuliette t1_j3ttm92 wrote

They did this on my block in Mt Airy and got most of the leaves but left big piles and there were no cars blocking at all 🤦🏻‍♂️

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