The Pope uses protection?
I also did a double take, but I picked up the usage quickly.
That was necessary. A hitchhiking robot is as useful as an enema for cantaloupes. And in retrospect, an atrocity to catholic sheepheads.
I will be a mess in the area during this crapal visit. Of course, there is another alternative to the city planning that they’ve come up with for this…
I live mere blocks from the Parkway, this will be like having July 4th conditions for 4 days with a much larger footprint.
Meh. Who am I to judge?
Anyway and whatever the numbers, as others have stated, not just that kind of exclusion zone but those restrictions on use of transit… what a mess.
BTW I must correct myself it’s not a 3 mile radius it’s as the OP stated a 3 *square mile *space but it’s most of what anyone wants to see of Philadelphia and will be on from Friday to whenever an all-clear is given. Map. FFS, most of the campuses of both Drexel and UPenn on the other side of the Schuykill are within that Green Line.
Is this an admission that the Philly authorities are not confident in their ability to exert control,being able to handle it if everyone who wants to see the Pope AND everyone who normally moves through the zone, all showed up? So they’d rather the latter stay put.
I only do that when I take notes in Spanish (mil, millones) and by now I’m moving to K for the thousands.
And the “roman numerals” thing didn’t convince me. Roman thousand to me is and has always been M, nevermind case and font.
So much for the old joke: “You no play-a da game, you no make-a da rules…”
It’s Filadelphia. What did you expect?
Yep! Normal cities add transit service when there’s a big event downtown, if not more trains at least longer trains. Example. Example. Example. Example.
NJ was feeling left out of this clusterfuck…
New Jersey transportation officials
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warned drivers on Thursday that if they don’t have any business in Philadelphia that weekend to stay 50 miles away from the city.
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Yeah, let’s close the city because so many people are coming, then advise them not to come because the city’s closed & they’d need to walk too far. :smack:
Well, presumably the NJ Transportation Commissioner didn’t have any say in whether to close the city.
Maybe, but visitors may be arriving in Camden, 4.5 miles away from Philadelphia, and deciding to walk (because that would be the only way to get to the city center). Jersey may not have any say, but they’ll be feeling the pain.
I live in South Jersey and work in Center City Philly and we got an email from management recently that basically went “for the week leading up to the Papal visit, the office will be open. You won’t be able to park in the deck, that will be closed off starting Monday. Mass transit will be crowded and limited, so please plan a few extra minutes to get into the office”.
That became a bit of a joke. It’s going to take hours to get from outside Philly to inside Philly for days leading up to event.
NBC10 this morning is reporting an estimated 1.5 to 2 million visitors for the weekend. It’s going to literally double the population of the city.
I know it’s fashionable to make fun of Jersey, but the NJ Transportation Commissioner had good advice … “if you have no reason to go there, don’t go anywhere near Philadelphia”. 50 miles away seems about right. Hotels in a huge radiuswere booked months ago. Not to mention those not staying in hotels.
I hear ya. 2 MILLION people are expected to visit the city for the Pope, in a city of only 1.5 million . . . . .that said, I cant understand why special passes of some sort cant be issued to the 100,000 denizens in the Pope Zone.
Pretty much Philadelphia has said “FUCK YOU” to anyone from New Jersey that wants to see the Pope.
I get the city wants to keep the Pontiff safe, surely theres a better plan.
I live in northeast Fluffya (try saying it with a Rocky accent). Assuming, now foolishly I see, that the folks who were planning this knew what they were doing, I initially wanted the Pope to come to Philly. I expected it would lead to tourist dollars for everyone. Then, after the Pope had agreed to come, they started talking about the closings, about SEPTA and PATCO not honoring regular tickets or passes etc. The head of Philly’s Fraternal Order Of Police, was on the news. He was getting a bunch of calls from the cops who were being told that they were needed to provide security. They weren’t being told how they would get there, where they would eat, sleep, or pee or how much they would be paid.
I usually visit my girlfriend on weekends. She lives in Jersey. I usually take Septa, more Septa, then the NJ Patco high speed line to a station where she picks me up. That ain’t happening. I don’t see how she can drive over any bridge that would be useful. They’re all going to be closed to non-ermergency vehicles.
The whole thing looks like a disaster waiting to happen.
THe latest security map. http://www.philly.com/philly/infographics/321846572.html
Not much change, really.
All of this is entirely in line with my visit a few years ago to Philthy, a city to which I hope to never return. There were so many things the city and its surly denizens couldn’t get right, even on repeated tries…
For what it is worth - and getting way off topic - we use MM when referring to oil and gas volumes, so 300 MMbbl translates to 300 million barrels of oil.
Have fun in Philidelphia. :eek:
Jeebus, I lived in DC when Gorbachev came to visit. The SS and police closed one street for the length of one block for the week – 16th Street in front of the Soviet embassy. I worked on that one street, and even at that it was no problem. They made a list of people working in the dozen or so effected buildings. I had to pass through a checkpoint and get cleared every morning before walking onto my building.