another unannounced Hack attack blocking off access to my house (the workmen need to be able to park in front) on the days when I have scheduled this long-delayed project?
This is an interesting "problem."
A pet peeve of mine is contractors who absolutely must be able to park on-site... even though they rarely have any real reason other than personal convenience. The number of times that they ever go back to their trucks before the end of the day are few and far between. If they need to unload something for their project, they just pull up and block the sidewalk with zero concern for the "neighbors" ability to walk or for the damage they are doing to those sidewalks or the pipes which run beneath them. Curbside parking is much too far away for them to have to carry tools or supplies.
I love construction sites like 30th and Market Street... There the contractors "trucks" are guaranteed "protected" parking behind heavy concrete barriers, while pedestrians are forced to "cross to the other side," as the sign says, or walk in the traffic lane (as they usually do.) ZERO consideration for the pedestrian.
Or look at the Library renovation at 40th street. The sidewalks are blocked, not because of dangerous debris falling, but to provide "on-site parking" for the contractors.
At least when Penn has been running the projects (like the recent Law School or Ralston House sidewalks) they have put up the barriers so that a pedestrian walkway was created.
So what would happen if your neighbors were parking in front of your house, instead of no one being allowed to park there? (After all, this isn't South Philadelphia, where a shotgun is used to defend one's curb-side parking slot.) What would the contractors do then? Would YOU be the one getting those cars towed or otherwise moved instead of the Film company? Did you ask your neighbors if they would mind contractors taking up parking places on your block? Did you circulate a notification to all residents, merchants and or business within a 500 foot radius -- that you were going to disturb the "status quo" by bringing in some outsiders?
The reason for our existence is not servitude to the gasoline powered vehicle.
(And I won't even bother to re-open the old issues of various sellers of goods with their trucks permanently parked in residential or commercial neighborhoods.)
T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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