Philadelphia Bicycle News and SEPTA Watch both use a recent incident along Kelly Drive to make an interesting plea for more some funding for their respective issues.
Check out the links for some pretty cool (which I can say since everyone made it out ok and no one was seriously injured) pictures of a car being extracted from the Schuylkill. Last time I checked, not a great place for a car.
Of course SEPTA Watch doesn't explicitly call for more funding for SEPTA so I just kind of filled that in myself by assuming that if SEPTA expanded service, the driver of that car wouldn't have had to drive or go so fast to get into Center City.
PBN, on the other hand, makes a good point about getting a pedestrian guard rail for the entire length of the Kelly Drive jogging path.
No word yet on whether the Schuylkill Navy, governing body of Philadelphia rowing, has any thoughts on the matter.
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It was pretty lucky that this happened now, and not like 2 weeks ago. The summer is a pretty crowded time on the river, right up until last week, when most summer programs end, and everyone heads to Canada for their final race of the summer.
If it had been a normal morning... it could have been bad.
Posted by Dan U-A | August 11, 2008 5:13 PM