Fishtown.US - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19125

in and around Fishtown, Old Richmond, & East Kensington

Anger over bicyclist treatment
PHILADELPHIA. A few days after one of their own suffered serious facial injuries in a hit-and-run crash, city bicycle messengers upset with what one courier describes as "rising anti-cycling sentiment" are rallying at LOVE Park this evening.

http://www.philly.metro.us/us/article/2009/11/30/03/1738-85/index.xml

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Fishtown has a dog park!
Where Aramingo, Girard, and Fletcher meet.
e: triangledogpark [at] gmail [dot] com
and on FaceBook under Triangle Dog Park!

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Bring on the cupcakes

culvert and inlet
(which, white trash that we were/are called "sewee holes"...i.e. " The ball went down the sewee hole!")

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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

I grew up in philly and now that I think of it, I would ask the same question. Pavement reminds me more of street. "hit the pavement" Streets are paved to me. I do understand it is also used as sidewalk around here too. It's one of those things.

as for the article linked here. I found the writer to be below the debating level of even f'town.us. He was clearly trying to start an easy argument. I do find the responses below the article more articulate and thought out though.

Here are some faves:

If the driving culture in this city is a general disregard for the rules of the road and the rules of a civil and genteel society, how can one expect the bicyclists to follow the same?

I don't know about you guys but I would not want to be behind a bicyclist who is following the rules of the road to the letter. You want to be stuck behind someone who can only go up to 15-20 miles per hour? I think not. You want bicyclists to stop at all red lights? What are you going to do when you have 5 or 10 of them at the light and there is no room for you to go around them when the light turns green? Be careful what you ask for.

In what world does half of TWO streets within a network of HUNDREDS equate to 50%?

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That's right, I live in subsidized housing...and you're jealous.

Yeah, my mother calls it the pavement; but dad called it the sidewalk.

I call it both; and know what people mean with they say pavement or sidewalk.

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God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

"Let Jesus be the salami sandwich in your life." Dan Roth