re: #116 ObserverArt

Can I ask for a little clarification Sergey?

What do you mean exactly by “cause all the trouble to simple folks?”

Well…it doesn’t have to be exact…

Just to rehash what FFF said: basically, all of downtown Philly and most of the University City area in West Philly (Penn, Drexel) have slowly been shut down over the last week. Cars being towed; checkpoint going up everywhere; and (my major complaint) mass transit being radically altered.

As of last night, many major highways and roads into Center City (with the exception of I95) are closed until Monday, along with the Ben Franklin Bridge (which goes right into downtown.)

The Philly Inquirer has a great info clearinghouse page here.

A lot of this was driven by the Secret Service trying to lock down as much shit as possible for security, but IMO, it comes off as Martial Law Lite. The mass transit stuff is a reaction to when the Phils won the Series in ‘08, and the agencies made very little planning to deal with the crowds that flooded the city for the parade.