More on potential Urban Icons...Every Saturday on my way to RTM I walk along the old abandoned Reading Railroad Viaduct.
It's another one of those great bones, great potential to be something wonderful and unique parts of Philadelphia that has yet to be tapped. This raised rail bed ran all the way to the old Reading Terminal train shed (now the convention center), but has since been sheared off at Vine Street.
We studied the Viaduct in an Urban Planning Studio, and let me tell you...it's wonderful. It's currently over grown, in shambles and not very safe. On the good side, it's raised off the street bed, is a major artery to center city and affords amazing views. It would be wonderful to see it transformed into a lush raised park space that even has buildings up against it, taking advantage of the dual "ground levels".
How great would it be to sit outside in little a cafe or byob raised up and away from the street traffic of the city?
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