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[P5se Camelback]

The parking situation is exactly why almost no one who lives in Center City has a car! And to rent a spot in a parking garage on a monthly basis will cost you as much as your apartment! Of course, there is the Broad Street Subway (major North/South) and the Market Street Subway (major East/West), trolleys (the east/west of which run underground through Center City) and bus lines (both with connections with subway and each other,) and "trackless trolleys" (electric busses with twin poles) in certain areasof the northeast. The #23 trolley line from southwest Philly to Chestnut Hill in the north is the longest trolley line in the country, if not the world. And then there's the EL, when the Market Street Subway emerges from the bowels of the city and runs west at one end to 69th Street Terminal in West Philly with connections with the former Philadelphia & Western (the "Punk and Wobbly"), an interurban with lines fanning out in about six or seven directions. And on the east end of Market Street, the El runs above the streets up to the Greater Northeast section of Philly.

If you can't get to where you're going using any of those transportation modes, take the transfer connections that get you relatively close to your destination and then hail a passing cab along the street or hop in one at the cab stand at the end of the line terminal.

When I lived in Center City, I used a ten-speed to get around (and you don't lock it up outside ... you take it inside with you!)