SOUTH STREET NEW LIGHTS and STREET? - Page 16 - PhillyBlog

Hospitalitygirl · #**151** (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by QVNewcomer

I don't mind the new meter thing too much, though one thing does annoy me: let's say the average person pulls up, plunks a quarter in, gets their ticket and puts it in the windshield. But then you're only there a couple minutes. Under the old system, when you pulled out, there was still money on the meter for the next person. Now it's just lost (or, given away to PPA).

I guess that's a nitpick, but I imagine that money adds up, and was one reason for the new system.

Or maybe I'm just cynical.

You can get a ticket for that. It's called "the unexpired time of another".

hubba1 · #**152** (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 09:53 PM

Can you really? I can't imagine they write that one very often... that'd just be a di#k move... It's always like a little gift when I get those few free minutes, or the rare times when I pull in and the meter says "0:40" thats good stuff... it's little things like that, that's all I need to make a bad day get better!

Tim K · #**153** (**permalink**) 03-04-2008, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by alesis

The one thing the south street headhouse district kept telling businesses is that the street will never be closed, and that its in the contract to keep this from happening.

Well, the street's closed. They're doing Front to 2nd right now, and at the end of the day they leave with the bulldozers and trucks right in the middle of the street with the road taped off. Great start to lie during the first few days of the project. Hopefully our resident SSHD boardmember can tell us who to sue when our businesses are affected.

The street is not supposed to be "closed" ....though I imagine there will have to be times that they stop traffic while moving some equipment or something. They had the 100 block closed off briefly on Monday...but I was back a few hours later and they had the right lane open for traffic...again today the right lane was open for traffic.

Are you sure they had it "closed"? The first time I drove by thought is was closed myself because they had the big barrels in the middle of the street (which is normally the drive lane) but shortly thereafter I released there was no parking in the right lane and cars were driving down that one.

If you do find it closed, call Dave at the district office and tell him. The city and the GC have offices on-site (I think at 8th and south or thereabouts). If it is in fact part of the contract it should be addressed. I haven't been closely involved in the Streetscape project so I am not up to speed on said contract.

alesis · #**154** (**permalink**) 03-05-2008, 02:50 PM

TK,
When I left my house yesterday morning at 5:30am the entire street was closed, and there were bulldozers and work trucks directly in the middle of the street. There was no one around, so it had to be like that all night.

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Originally Posted by Tim K

The street is not supposed to be "closed" ....though I imagine there will have to be times that they stop traffic while moving some equipment or something. They had the 100 block closed off briefly on Monday...but I was back a few hours later and they had the right lane open for traffic...again today the right lane was open for traffic.

Are you sure they had it "closed"? The first time I drove by thought is was closed myself because they had the big barrels in the middle of the street (which is normally the drive lane) but shortly thereafter I released there was no parking in the right lane and cars were driving down that one.

If you do find it closed, call Dave at the district office and tell him. The city and the GC have offices on-site (I think at 8th and south or thereabouts). If it is in fact part of the contract it should be addressed. I haven't been closely involved in the Streetscape project so I am not up to speed on said contract.

Tim K · #**155** (**permalink**) 03-05-2008, 04:07 PM

Try emailing the address at the bottom of this message and asking about the street closures (the email should go to the SSHD office and Dave Hammond should get it).

I got this from another board member who was at the most recent Streetscape Committee meeting.

=================================
Stage I underway:

Trenching to lay electrical conduit for the new street
lights, expected to conclude 3/24. No parking on
either side of street during the trenching, 3 blocks
at a time, beginning at the 100 block.

Upgrades in the plan:
*16 new trees per block
*new street lamps replacing the overhead "cobra" style
lights
*New concrete sidewalks, dyed with an attractive
finish, with new handicapped ramps (dyed slightly
different color)
*New bike racks along the street, near the curbing
*New parking meters (two per pole)

Work Plan:

Begin at 7 am end at 3:30 pm in effort to have the
street "open" during peak business hours
During sidewalk work, anticipate only 2-3 days of
inconvenience per business, they will be laying
plywood temporarily to enable entrance to business
while sidewalk concrete is drying.
Anticipate 5 days to complete sidewalk work per half
block, up one side of the street, then down the other.

New stainless steel replacement cellar utility vault
doors are an option for business owners, District
funding half the replacement costs
Plan involves laying PVC electrical conduit to the new
trees, but does not include the wiring.

Inquiries email: streetscape@aol.com

hubba1 · #**156** (**permalink**) 03-05-2008, 06:08 PM

I drove down today, and it was open on the right side, but middle and left were closed... not sure how it was last night or tonight though... first time I've driven down south street in a while... I parked across from Jims steaks and put a quarter in the meter, and got 30 mins! Is this new?? I was expecting the old 15 minutes (which is still says on the meter)... is it maybe a day time thing, or are they actually being nice and giving you a whole half an hour now for a quarter?

Tim K · #**157** (**permalink**) 03-05-2008, 10:56 PM

Ha! They aren't giving you anything. This is Philly and the PPA. There was probably a quarter stuck in the meter that got pushed in by yours.

hubba1 · #**158** (**permalink**) 03-05-2008, 11:31 PM

Thats what I figured! ha ha, some mistake and I just got lucky!

mereward · #**159** (**permalink**) 03-05-2008, 11:50 PM

I remember opening my credit card statement after a weekend in Georgetown and saying what the heck is "Chief Ike's Mambo Room.... Oh yeah....." Good time had by all according to the amount of the bill.

I wish we had some nicer bars on South St. With clean, operational bathrooms. That is my biggest complaint about South St bars. A shower curtain doubling as a bathroom door doesn't cut it. Oh, and toilet seats aren't OPTIONAL.

zur · #**160** (**permalink**) 03-05-2008, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by mereward

I remember opening my credit card statement after a weekend in Georgetown and saying what the heck is "Chief Ike's Mambo Room.... Oh yeah....." Good time had by all according to the amount of the bill.

I wish we had some nicer bars on South St. With clean, operational bathrooms. That is my biggest complaint about South St bars. A shower curtain doubling as a bathroom door doesn't cut it. Oh, and toilet seats aren't OPTIONAL.

Well then it wouldn't be South Street....It would be Walnut.

and that's the problem. People moved/bought on South and are trying to change it... moved there for the scene...want to change it.

"I moved next to this farm cause of the scenery but I demand we remove the animals and the farm"

We're all for Public Bathrooms.