Philly’s coronavirus response

‘Customers thank me’: Philly tow king Lew Blum is sanitizing hooked cars

Tow business is down 80% during the pandemic, he says.

Philly’s coronavirus response

PPA coronavirus rules: You probably won’t get a parking ticket during quarantine

But don't double park or block a loading zone.

Rampant sidewalk parking at the Free Library makes ADA entrance hard to access

The city says it's working on a plan to fix more than 30 buildings with "major" accessibility issues.

Classy dining room savsies

(Pic courtesy of a Billy Penn reader)

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When the in-laws you can’t stand ask you to save them a parking spot

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T-minus two days until the Women’s March. Here’s everything you need to know, including street closures and parking

The PPA gave out 150k parking tickets during ‘street cleaning’ days over the past decade — but the cleaning rarely gets done

Holidays in Philly

INBOX: Whatever you do, don’t park here during the Mummers Parade

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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?

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

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?)

Tweet from @TU_Parking

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.

Tweet from @bikemamadelphia

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

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