My new fav blog (probably because I’m supposed to write for it) is Adelphia Stories, the brainchild of one M. Axel. I enjoyed this post from Don Bito, PG guest writer extraordinaire! Bito’s latest post, at Adelphia Stories, dishes on the South Street Bridge, her one true love and Inga Saffron. I’m intrigued. (There’s also a post about Skittles vodka, but you didn’t hear that from me.)
But a struggling tourism trade is only half of Philly’s problem. The other, I would argue, more pressing issue, is the fact that we are constantly hemorrhaging the population we have. Of course there are many factors contributing to this, but as a young veteran of city driving I can tell you there is little about city life that frustrates me as much or as often as the traffic situation. And as much as we would like to be forward-thinking and express our architectural creativity, there’s no point in shooting ourselves in the foot in the process. Would I enjoy meandering along a more beautiful, pedestrian-friendly SSB? Absolutely. Would I start a bloody revolution if the city spent $50 million reconstructing a major traffic bridge without improving the flow of traffic?
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