P'unk Avenue Window

Under the Surface

October 9th, 2009 by Geoff 6 Comments

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In Philadelphia, the cobblestone street and trolley tracks are only inches beneath the surface.

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6 Responses to “Under the Surface”

  1. Dave Martorana Says:
    October 9th, 2009 at 9:57 pm

    Might be nice if they were the surface and we lost the ugly blacktop. Eveyone pines after cobblestone streets… But then we pave over them.

  2. Geoff Says:
    October 10th, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    I agree. They are also great traffic calming devices and they are modular so they can be repaired without having to redo large areas.

    There are certainly lots of advantages.

    They are not great to ride your bike on, though. A possible solution would be another surface for the bike lane.

  3. bob maynard Says:
    October 14th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    Nice how the past bleeds through to the present.

    Sort of an architectural palimpsest: the ghost of landscapes past.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest

  4. Colin Devroe Says:
    October 20th, 2009 at 8:44 am

    I say bring them back.

  5. J T. Ramsay Says:
    October 20th, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    I mourn the loss of the Philly trolley system. You can see how the system was slowly dismantled (and replaced by gas guzzling buses) at http://www.phillytrolley.org/.

  6. Geoff Says:
    October 22nd, 2009 at 9:22 am

    Me, too.

    I love trolleys. In fact, the predecessor to P’unk Avenue was Trolley Studio: http://trolleystudio.com/

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