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Last Updated: Dec. 14, 2017 · 3:05 p.m.

Parking is a nightmare around the Italian Market. Officials are pitching valets and parking validation as potential solutions

When you absolutely refuse to lose at savesies

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The Washington Avenue revitalization project could remove up to 60 parking spots and… no one is mad about it?

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Philly is redeveloping Passyunk Square — mostly to include more multi-family and residential space (and parking)

If you feel like sitting in the middle of the street and pretending it’s a park… today’s the day to do it!

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This torched van got a parking ticket because the PPA is ridiculous

A fire-ravaged van in West Philly still managed to rack up a violation.

A rundown of the streets that will be closed for Made in America this weekend

The future site of a Goddard School franchise at 22nd and Pine

A daycare is coming to 22nd and Pine, and Rittenhouse residents are pissed

The zoning board approved the project despite objections about traffic, noise and...children.

Expect parking to be even worse in North Philly this week (also, Temple has Twitter and Instagram accounts devoted to parking?)

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Apparently Philly has a ton of parking. Researchers estimate there are 2,172,896 spots in the city — that’s 1.4 parking spaces for every resident, or 3.2 per household.

Heroic Philly parking vigilantism of the day

Have fun getting the tape off.

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Whoever runs the PPA Twitter is offering to personally check on your outstanding parking tix?

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Paying for parking with your license plate might actually come to Philly

The PPA confirmed it's actively looking into "pay-by-plate" kiosks.

The PPA amnesty program resolved fines for 22,000 people and cost the city $2.5 million. Officials aren’t sure it was worth it.

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The Week in Parking

Today in passive aggressive car notes: ‘This heart attack is on you!’

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Savesies, the PPA or the union rats — what's worse?

This March Madness-style bracket will decide the absolute worst thing about Philly

Comcast? The PPA? Highway construction? All contenders in Crossing Broad's competition.

Parking amnesty program starts Thursday and lasts through end of April

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SEPTA and the PPA may team up to use vehicle-mounted cameras to issue violations for blocking bus stops

Oh, Philly. One driver smashed into more than a dozen parked cars Friday night.

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Whoever left that cone on the sidewalk needs a lesson in how to 'savsies'

The Week in Parking

What’s worse than looking for parking in Philly in a snowstorm?

One answer: Trying to scrape frozen bird poop off your car.