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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

When/if the repairs and the surface level lane reconfig finally happen, I believe the viaduct will become one of the Philly's most dramatic examples of transformation from liability to asset.

Image from the 2022 25th Street Transportation study by the Philadelphia Planning commission showing a street layout with central raised walkway, bi-directional bike lanes, and outside vehicule travel lanes under a freight railroad viaduct.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Saw the aftermath of this Cybercab crash at Broad and Wharton today. No idea what happened, but the door panel was torn clean off.

Driver's side photo of Cybercab involved in crash on Philadelphia streets. Exterior door panel is torn away showing the internals of the door mechanism.

Photo showing other car involved in the cybercab crash near Broad and Wharton in Philadelphia.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

He's wrangling with salty commenters in that thread too. I think he's more effective than I would ever be, since the camera complainers aren't used to getting scolded from the right. He's outflanked them with a "rule of law" argument.

A comment by Stu Bykofsky from his facebook page saying the following:

"PPA has made it a lot easier to contest tickets. One of the commenters here did so and won.
Is it “fair” that you get ticketed for momentarily stopping in a no stopping zone?
Yes. Do you know what NO STOPPING means?
I live on a stupid bike lane. I ALWAYS have my ride pick me up across the street because I don’t them to risk a ticket that I think is $140.
My mantra: Obey the law.
Don’t whine when you don’t and get caught."

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The new MetFresh market in the old Walgreens building could be a genuine game changer for Broad and Snyder and the neighborhoods around it.

Produce section at MetFresh market in Philadelphia pa

Checkout kiosks at MetFresh in Philadelphia pa

Deli counter at MetFresh in Philadelphia pa

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Open streets is Philly at its peak.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

One of the few good examples of boiling frog theory: The massive bloat in vehicle size over the last 40 years. This 1986 Pontiac Grand Am (which were common cars growing up and I never thought of as a compact or small in any way) looked ridiculously tiny in the Acme parking lot today.

Black 1986 Pontiac Trans Am parked in a sunny Acme supermarket parking lot in Philadelphia, PA.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Incredible scoreless inning streak by Sanchez.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Got there late and didn’t take the best photo, but Open Streets last night on 13th was a great vibe. Happening every Tuesday evening in June!

Open streets evening event in Philadelphia PA on 13th street in Midtown Village.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I recently started using my old Strida as part of a Regional Rail commute. Folding bikes and transit are like a super cheat code, shaving minutes off a commute time and expanding the reachable radius around transit locations. Would make a great youtube video.

Picture of a Strida 3.2 folding bicycle propped against a brick rowhouse facade.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The new small-format grocery at Snyder and Broad getting tantalizingly close to opening. Hiring signs are now posted.

Now hiring sign posted on construction fence

Interior of new MetFresh grocery set to open at Broad and Snyder in Philadelphia, PA

Exterior of the new grocery store set to open at the northwest corner of Broad and Snyder in Philadelphia, PA.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Camden, NJ looking beautiful today.

Image of Camden, NJ’s Cooper Street on a spring day in April looking towards the Ben Franklin Bridge to Philadelphia.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Savannah is probably most famous for its 19th century #architecture, but this steeple on St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran church really caught my eye. Harold E. Wagoner architect, 1955.

Steeple of St. Paul’s evangelical Luther’s Church in Savannah, GA.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

On the tarmac at PHL Terminal F. Valentine’s trip to Savannah, GA.

American Eagle jet on the tarmac at Terminal F, Philadelphia International Airport.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Catherine O’Hara was a comedy giant. Lots of 70s and 80s comedy has aged terribly. But S.C.T.V. and especially her performances are still so good and so hilarious.

Catherine O’Hara’s S.C.T.V. character “Violet McKay”

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Some winter storm pics from South Philly this morning.

Looking west on Tree street from 11th Street in Philadelphia during the January 25, 2026 snowstorm. Man shoveling snow.

Epiphany of Our Lord Catholic Church at 11th and Jackson street in Philadelphia, PA during January 25, 2026 snowstorm. Woman crosses street with blue umbrella.

Buildings at Broad and Snyder streets in Philadelphia, PA during snowstorm. Cars have been moved for emergency snow route.

South Philly high school gymnasium from the parking lot, covered in snow.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Christmas week flurries in East Falls, Philadelphia, PA.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween morning from #SEPTA Regional Rail.

Sunrise from the train tracks at Temple university station in North Philadelphia.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

In jersey today for family stuff. Quick Riverline appreciation post

Riverline train at Pennsauken Transit Center

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Great news for that corner. Also, finally some movement at the gorgeous old bank that was most recently a Wendy's, but's been closed for a couple of years: Burger King installed new signs this week.

Burger King blade sign mounted on historic stone bank building in South Philadelphia at Broad and Snyder.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I’m suddenly understanding NIMBYs.

Cheap 3d print of a wedding and event venue proposed as an addition to the White House.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Snagged the railfan seat on my ride home on #SEPTA. The Norristown line is such a beautiful commute.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Not a repost. HR 48 for Schwarber!

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

2nd Schwarber home run of the game!

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Some fun lakefront tourism architecture in Gyeongju, South Korea.

Hotel and restaurant using neo-traditional architectural motifs.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Sci-fi Gamer aesthetic. Angled planes and chamfers chunked up to fake out a military tech vibe.

Interior architecture from Microsoft Halo series, with angled gray walls and chamfered surfaces

3d rendering of Halo Warthog military vehicle by Marcus Lehto.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Philly’s little strip of lawlessness known as the Broad Street median.

Car illegally parked in the center of Broad Street in South Philadelphia. The wheels of the car have been stolen.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Massive northbound delays on SEPTA B1. Overheard someone saying he’s been waiting since 6:55, over half an hour ago. No explanations on the platform or the website.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Cool! If you’re posting on your phone, you should see a bar at the bottom with icons. Tap on the one all the way to the left that looks like a landscape picture to add photos to a post. I circled the icon in red here.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

E.A.Wright Bank Note Building, seen from the tracks of SEPTA’s North Broad station. Built 1914 by William Steele & Sons.

The rear of the vacant former Wright Bank Note Building in Philadelphia, PA, seen from the commmuter rail tracks.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The grand court, filled in for a concert on the LARGEST ORGAN IN THE WORLD. Hope it’s not too long until the next one. This building is too important and too much of a treasure to shutter for long.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Some grim comedy from a dying store.

Half of an upside-down mannequin and a 30% off tag at the store closing of Macys in the Wanamaker building, Philadelphia, PA.

Loose letters on a table spelling “oof” in the Wanamaker building, Philadelphia, PA.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Architectural ornament from various locations in the building.

A winged cat sculpture at the base of the grand staircase in the Wanamaker building, Philadelphia, PA.

Column capital in the Wanamaker building, Philadelphia, PA.

Pilaster detail in the Wanamaker building, Philadelphia, PA.

Egyptian themed bust mounted to the wall on the third floor of the Wanamaker building, Philadelphia, PA.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Over the last 20 years, I’ve been inside this building dozens, if not hundreds of times. But today was the first time I realized Macy’s never even used the full floor plates for display. Sections of entire column bays are hiding behind drywall if you know where to look.

View of the ceiling of an unused area of the third floor of Macys, in the old Wanamaker’s building in center city Philadelphia, PA.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Emptied out you can see the beauty of the architecture more clearly.

Empty colonnade at Wanamaker building, Philadelphia, PA

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Here at Wanamakers for the end of the Macy’s chapter.

Vertical panorama of the Wanamaker’s building main court taken from the second floor in Philadelphia, PA.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I know SEPTA has much bigger issues to tackle, but platform doors like these in Busan would go a long way towards making the subway system safer and more reliable.

Platform doors on the Donghae Nambu Line at Sinhaeundae Station in Busan, South Korea.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I love SEPTA’s new signs. But’s it’s going to take me a while to stop calling it the BSL.

Signage indicating the new naming convention for SEPTA Metro. Taken at Ellsworth-Federal station on the B1 line.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Tried to write one of my senators tonight. Got this error after submitting. I hope it's because the servers are overloaded.

image says: WEBSITE TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE DUE TO MAINTENANCE.

Normal service will return soon.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

One of my favorite concepts from his Mother Jones article on leaded gas: www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Experts often suggest that crime resembles an epidemic. But what kind? Karl Smith, a professor of public economics and government at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, has a good rule of thumb for categorizing epidemics: If it spreads along lines of communication, he says, the cause is information. Think Bieber Fever. If it travels along major transportation routes, the cause is microbial. Think influenza. If it spreads out like a fan, the cause is an insect. Think malaria. But if it’s everywhere, all at once—as both the rise of crime in the ’60s and ’70s and the fall of crime in the ’90s seemed to be—the cause is a molecule.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Last night in Korea. Back to Philly tomorrow.

Sunset looking through the marine city skyscrapers in Busan, South Korea.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

#busan tetrapods. Taken from the glass floor of the Songdo Marine Cable Car.

Aerial image of tetrapods used as a breakwater on the coast of Busan, South Korea

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

One of the massive seven story escalator atriums in SHINSEGAE Centum City, largest department store in the world. #Busan. Click for the full panorama.

Vertical panorama of one of the escalator atriums in SHINSEGAE Centum City, department store in Busan, South Korea.

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Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The incredible view through the Marine City towers. #busan

Daytime view through the curved glass skyscrapers in Marine City, Busan, South Korea.

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