Parking is a weirdly tribal thing here, especially in South Philly. Policies which almost certainly allow more people to visit commercial corridors without cars, at least increasing the ratio of people/cars, don't necessarily get neighborhood support because there's nothing more important than the existence of a parking space. Even if it's full.
You can fit a lot of bikes in a parking space. Also, too, better people bike drunk than drive drunk (not sure how the law approaches drunk biking here, but you're certainly less likely to hurt somebody else if you do it).
