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I've really got to push this site, phillyskyline, which just revels photographically in everything wonderful about Philadelphia, even the blighted, urban-decaying parts. (There's also a photo essay of Camden, that allegedly "most dangerous city in America," just a stone's throw across the Delaware River in NJ!)
Of course, not all is sunny in Fluffya, as the SEPTA strike that began yesterday continues. I want to be sympathetic to labor and union issues, I really do, and I usually am, but the potential costs to the 200,000 people who depend on public transportation daily just aren't justified by what the workers want (to not have to start paying 5% out of pocket for their health insurance.) I mean, that number includes thousands of kids who use SEPTA to get to school. (I should point out that the strike doesn't particularly affect me, were I to need to get into center city for some reason, since the regional rail lines are associated with a different union and are still running; at most the R-5 would be even more claustrophobically packed than usual with displaced suburban line riders.)
But I love Philadelphia for its flaws as much as for its beauty and charms, and SEPTA's never been anything other than a serious flaw in my book, anyway.
If, clicking through the photo essays and neighborhood tours, you find yourself thinking gee, Philadelphia seems to have a lot of public art - you're right. Philadelphia has the most public art of any city in America.
Of course, not all is sunny in Fluffya, as the SEPTA strike that began yesterday continues. I want to be sympathetic to labor and union issues, I really do, and I usually am, but the potential costs to the 200,000 people who depend on public transportation daily just aren't justified by what the workers want (to not have to start paying 5% out of pocket for their health insurance.) I mean, that number includes thousands of kids who use SEPTA to get to school. (I should point out that the strike doesn't particularly affect me, were I to need to get into center city for some reason, since the regional rail lines are associated with a different union and are still running; at most the R-5 would be even more claustrophobically packed than usual with displaced suburban line riders.)
But I love Philadelphia for its flaws as much as for its beauty and charms, and SEPTA's never been anything other than a serious flaw in my book, anyway.
If, clicking through the photo essays and neighborhood tours, you find yourself thinking gee, Philadelphia seems to have a lot of public art - you're right. Philadelphia has the most public art of any city in America.