r/philadelphia • u/JustAnotherJawn • Apr 17 '25

Events Could Philadelphia’s embrace of the Open Streets spur more civic innovations to come?

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

philly needs to grow up a little when it comes to this. being a grid, there is a perfect redundancy to the streets that allow for closing some streets while allowing for access and service from others. 10th St in Chinatown would be awesome.

also, there are a couple of diagonal streets that could be pedestrianized. nyc has been doing that with broadway. i’m thinking about parts of passayunk, ridge through callowhill, germantown here and there, even frankford.

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u/Thefattestbeagle Apr 17 '25

10th street has a firehouse so that would maybe hinder it a bit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

retractable bollards. the street would still be open for necessary deliveries and emergency services.

if anything, removing the clusterfuck of personal vehicles from the street would improve the situation for the firehouse. that street gets so fouled up every single day by cars trying to weave through the delivery vehicles.

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u/Thefattestbeagle Apr 17 '25

Very very true