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The Philadelphia Parking Authority Raises Parking Rates
As if you needed another reason to despise the Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA), they’ve gone and raised parking rates in Center City, effective today.
Meters in the “Center City Core” area, which stretches from Arch Street to Locust Street and from 4th Street to 20th Street, jump from $3 per hour to $4 per hour. The cost to park from Spring Garden Street to Bainbridge Street and from the Schuylkill River to the Delaware River, minus the aforementioned core, climbs from $2.50 per hour to $3.50 per hour. And those long-term meters that allow you to park for up to 12 hours go from $1.50 per hour to $2.50 per hour…