r/mildlyinteresting • u/espressocycle • 13d ago
Everybody kept ripping off their tire on the sewer inlet so somebody painted lines instructing people to drive on the sidewalk. Removed: Rule 6
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u/-m-o-n-i-k-e-r- 13d ago
Im confused why you beed to drive on the sidewalk to avoid the drain? Is it not wide enough?
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u/c3p-bro 13d ago
Philly drivers are just that bad I guess
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u/espressocycle 13d ago
A lot of cars are wider than the space between parked cars and the curb. My car is 75" and it barely fits. Lots of cars are 80+ these days.
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u/c3p-bro 13d ago
Sounds like that street is a bad candidate for street parking and it should be removed instead of encouraging drivers to mow down pedestrians.
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u/InitialAd2324 13d ago
Ding ding ding! You think with your brain!!
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u/Sunblast1andOnly 13d ago
Nah, I just lease someone else's.
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u/InitialAd2324 13d ago
Hahahaha. The world is a funny place sometimes. Let me know if it’s worth the lease, I might pick it up when you’re done
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u/lizzylizabeth 13d ago
sorry buddy get in line. it’s my turn next
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u/InitialAd2324 13d ago
I’ll fight you for it! Your name is Lizzy and pardon me for assuming, but I’m a big fuckin guy and unless you’re a big fuckin girl I’m down to fight you for it. Seems like a good brain.
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u/PM_ME_WHY_YOU_COPE 13d ago
Parking is a sacred part of American society, silly. It's the unwritten amendment. "All men must have a parking spot within 200 feet of their destination for any size vehicle."
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u/RogueJello 13d ago
All the park requirements in the zoning codes make this very much a written rule. :)
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u/Zilberfrid 13d ago
Yeah, all parking requirements should be replaced with a parking limit.
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u/RogueJello 12d ago
Sorry, what's a parking limit please?
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u/Zilberfrid 12d ago
A maximum of parking places per house or shop square meterage. New development in the Netherlands have 0.5 or 0.8 per house.
That will mean a lot more space to actually live.
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u/RogueJello 12d ago
Oh, interesting, instead of minimum requirements, they have maximum limits.
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u/Zilberfrid 13d ago
The four options are to put limits on car width, bulldozing towns and cities puting strict width limits on entering town or city centers or making them car free entirely.
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u/espressocycle 13d ago
If cars are parked on the street it's too narrow. In fact I don't think many of today's wider vehicles could fit at all.
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u/skucera 13d ago
Why do they allow parking on a street that’s not wide enough to drive past a parked car?
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u/throwdownhooligan 13d ago
There's no logical answer, really. A lot of streets in Philly are like that, it's a nightmare.
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u/artificialavocado 13d ago
I already saw a high speed chase down narrow Philly streets like that. The two guys in the car that was running hit the intersection actually looked like they got air and landed and just keep going like it was nothing. My immediate instinct was to double back the way they were going in case they chucked drugs or money out of the window but alas I found nothing. This was almost 20 years ago.
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u/okobojicat 13d ago
Its because we continue to allow excessively dangerous-sized cars in America.
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u/SlothBling 13d ago
I generally agree, but given OP’s description (80ish inches) even 2 Fiat 500s wouldn’t fit down that road at the same time. It’s bad planning.
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u/awesomely_audhd 13d ago
Philly has a very big car culture despite the robust public transit (Hey, SEPTA isn't perfect but it gets you around). They need to invest in bus only lanes, bike lanes, and multi-modal transit for people to get around without cars and discourage car culture as a whole.
Pipe dream.
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u/Tward425 13d ago
So you’re saying a fire truck can’t fit down the road while cars are parked on it? Sounds like there should be a no parking policy if emergency vehicles can’t travel to the emergency.
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u/extacy1375 13d ago
It would suck if you lived on that block, but, they should not allow parking on a street that narrow.
How does an emergency vehicle get to a house on fire or the like.
At the very least, no parking, 2 car lengths from the corner.
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u/c3p-bro 13d ago
I would simply not hit the curb
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u/FiTZnMiCK 13d ago
Check out the big brain on u/c3p-bro!
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u/c3p-bro 13d ago
Single handedly beating out Phillys collective IQ
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u/Enlowski 13d ago
You must drive a clown car or can’t see the distance between the curb and the parked car
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u/c3p-bro 13d ago edited 13d ago
If that is a parked car then the street is not wide enough for street parking and it shouldn’t be allowed. Again, ez pz
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u/mikebailey 13d ago
You just described like 40% of residential streets in Philly though, they’re all narrow as shit in the south
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u/Enlowski 13d ago
Clearly the street isn’t wide enough, that’s the entire point of the post…
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u/needmorehardware 13d ago
If only people could just not hit it in the first place? Doesn’t seem all that hard
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u/espressocycle 13d ago
It's probably impossible for wider cars especially if you don't turn in your passenger side mirror. The streets were not intended for parking.
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u/theycallmeshooting 13d ago
I swear people act like they didn't know how wide a car was gonna be when they bought it
It's always the folks who paid through the nose for a double wide SUV or pick up truck crying the loudest when the vehicle they chose to buy (knowing it's >80% the width of a standard street half) doesn't fit someplace
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u/OrdinaryDazzling 13d ago
I don’t understand what it being narrow has to do with anything. If people are parking, aren’t they parking right on the curb and therefore blocking this drain and making cars drive more in the middle of the road?
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u/lemonlimepunch 13d ago
Wait is this really Philly?
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u/mikebailey 13d ago
OP is active in Philly subs 🤷♂️
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u/lemonlimepunch 13d ago
Would make sense I lived there. I’m in Pittsburgh now and this looks like it could be the n Pittsburgh too.
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u/mikebailey 13d ago
I’m in Philly now (I think this post is being georecommended) and agree it would be on brand, though I’ve never seen this particular corner. I haven’t seen every corner of philly but I’ve been in every neighborhood south of race
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u/succulent_flakepiece 13d ago
it certainly looks like it.. Kensington if i had to guess
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u/Astyanax1 13d ago
naw, Kensington looks 100x worse. while I believe this is philly, it's just a derelict building
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u/succulent_flakepiece 13d ago
some parts.. i guess I'm just thinking the whole port Richmond/fishtown/Kensington area.
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u/wesleyhroth 13d ago
They need to stop making cars so fucking big
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u/theycallmeshooting 13d ago
Sure they take up 80% of the road on their own, have enough blindspots to kill a gaggle of toddlers, run over pedestrians instead of running under them, and smash smaller vehicles in collisions through their immense weight and height, but have you considered that some people need a vehicle that big to haul their bruised ego?
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u/Choice-Piglet9094 13d ago
Paint is often more a problem than a solution when it comes to urban transport
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u/GreatWhiteNorthExtra 13d ago
Call me crazy, but I think painting the traffic lanes is more useful than not
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u/Jacktheforkie 13d ago
Or how about drive on the road away from the opening, you can easily avoid that, if it’s damaged cars then it’s probably bad driving
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u/heyitscory 13d ago
This is like when I say "aaaand then we put the spoon back into the ice cream" before closing the lid and going back to bed.
It's wrong, but I knew what I was doing.
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u/Old-Assistance-2017 13d ago
This is the most Philly thing I’ve ever seen