Comments on: Reading Railroad Trestle

By: Reading Viaduct. Still Abandoned. « SEPTA Watch

Reading Viaduct. Still Abandoned. « SEPTA Watch — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:02:37 +0000

[...] Reading Viaduct. Still Abandoned. 2008 May 2 by Michael Dragonballyee went up to the abandoned Reading Viaduct the other day and took some beautiful pictures. Check them out here. [...]

By: NYC’s High Line Park vs. Philadelphia’s Reading Viaduct « SEPTA Watch

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:42:40 +0000

[...] meeting in Chinatown and the community's differing views of the future of the park. (image credit and credit.) Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Top Chef Host And Others To Cook [...]

By: andipantz

andipantz — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:30:34 +0000

I would love to see it converted into some sort of park as well. That would be super cool. We can only hope. It would definitely add a nice patch of green to my cement hood.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:46:06 +0000

I'd love to see the abandoned trestle turned into a park

I was up there myself recently. I would be great if something
(anything) could be done with it. the research I did though,
suggested that it is contaminated with PCBs, and the cost
to clean it up and make it safe is somewhere in the
"prohibitively expensive" range. for the foreseeable future,
it will likely remain the domain of the homeless and photographers.

By: Thad

Thad — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:37:10 +0000

I just put my photos of the Promenade Plantee (or Viaduc des Arts) from a 2004 trip to Paris up on Flickr, here. It was really great. Philly (and New York City) should be lucky to have such a wonderful civic feature running throu our city. Need to put up my own shots from the Reading trestle too, but there are some other good things still in the queue from before that that still need to go up!

By: steve

steve — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:15:43 +0000

Great set! I've hardly touched mine from that day. I need to get on that.