Dozens of loading zones along Spruce and Pine streets in Philadelphia are being removed less than three months after they were installed.
The reason the city put in the loading zones was to give residents and delivery vehicles a place to pull over and unload because it’s now illegal to stop a car in a bike lane, even for just a minute but a court order last month prohibited the city from moving forward with the loading zones, which eliminated dozens of parking spots along Spruce and Pine streets.
The injunction required the city to stop all work related to the loading zones after a lawsuit was filed by a neighborhood group called Friends of Pine & Spruce. Some say the loading zones took away too much parking and weren’t adequate for some residents who need to be able to pull up in front of their house and therefore block the bike lanes for short periods of time…