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Originally Posted by Dave
Glad to hear you liked UC 
Been to Austin 2 or 3 times to visit and it's an awesome city. It lacks Philly's walkability and architecture, but it's got a really cool vibe. The rolling hills to the north are also really beautiful. Wouldn't mind living there if I ever find myself back in the south.
Couldn't agree more. 22nd St's a commercial corridor somewhere in North Philly, IIRC, so that would probably be better than 21st.
The area around the 46th St el station is run down because somebody decided to build a bunch of projects there.
As far as no stops in CC, West of City Hall, it was a giant rail yard when the El was first built, so there was no reason to put any stations there. I imagine none have been added for the same reason we don't have South, 5th and 22nd St subways (I.e. politicians and the people who elect them).
Shoulda been here 5 years ago. It's amazing how much time place has changed since I got here. |
The high-rise project is located right next to the subway tunnel portal at 44th Street. The Lucien Blackwell Homes, a newer, Nehemiah-style development, is at 46th, just north of the CVS. Across 46th is the former headquarters of the Provident Mutual Insurance Co. (since merged into another company, IIRC), now underused; I believe the local Job Corps center and a handful of other social-service and community-development agencies have offices in it now. The grounds are overgrown.
You all don't want me to trot out the 1913 rapid transit plan here, do you? A subway up the Parkway that would have become an elevated over 29th Street to Ridge, thence over Ridge to Roxborough, was part of it.
See my prior post for the actual story of why there are no El stations between 15th and 30th. However, the rail yard -- actually, the approach to the Pennsylvania Railroad's Broad Street Station (1878?-1952) -- was indeed in this area.
22d Street is a commercial strip from Lehigh Avenue northward. The large church one block east of 22d and Lehigh sits on the site of Connie Mack Stadium, nee Shibe Park (1909-1971), home of the Philadelphia Athletics from 1909 to 1955, when they decamped for Kansas City, then of the Phillies from '55 until Veterans Stadium opened in 1971.
Five years? The transformation is truly astonishing when you look at it from the perspective of 25 years, as I have. Ground had yet to be broken on Liberty Place when I moved here. That was the beginning.