In a message dated 8/12/2011 5:03:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mag...@mcgillsociety.org writes:
At one time Penn DID provide "cheap" parking, nominally only for faculty and staff, and maybe even students -- don't recall. 1. If Penn people were as ecologically-oriented as they profess to be, they'd take public transportation rather than drive in from the suburbs and park on the streets in our neighborhood. The situation is almost enough to convince me to get the signatures needed to apply for permit parking on my block. 2. Many of us will remember when the idea of a shelter for homeless women with young children at the former Nursing home in the 4500 block of Chestnut was quashed. Penn then proposed to lease the building as a "LIFE" center -- kind of an outpatient nursing home -- to be run by the school of nursing. Many of the folks in the area liked the concept, but the issue of parking was raised because the building in question had only a few spaces. The Penn people said (I remember it clearly... it was at one of Glenn Bryant's "First Thursday" nosh-and-pander meetings) they wouldn't be jamming the curbs with cars because a) most of the "clients" would be arriving and departing by LIFE vans, and b) most of the Penn people working there would be coming up from Campus and, being the good citizens for whom Penn is famous, they'd use SEPTA. Well, point "a)" seems to be true enough. But point "b)" definitely isn't. It used to be easy to find parking spaces on the surrounding blocks (I know because I have a building there); now it's virtually impossible during daytime hours. Were the people who made the statement just being naive, disingenuous, or (dare I suggest) both? 3. That park-n-ride (or whatever it's called) at the University exit/entrance of the Expressway is fairly economical. You pay for a space there by the month and they take you to and pick you up from various locations around the campus and the hospitals. Of course, why pay anything when you can park free in a neighborhood where you neither live nor work -- a neighborhood full of those slovenly, despicable, no-account, unwashed, tattooed, morally corrupt renters and others of the benighted classes? ------------------------------------------------------ Alan Krigman KRF Management 215-349-6500, fax 215-349-6502 _www.krf.icodat.com_ (http://www.iconworldwide.com/krf)