DC says it may fine people walking in the street bc sidewalks are covered with snow. What?! https://t.co/aWzBfVT6Qk pic.twitter.com/t4OyuUhrs0
— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel) January 25, 2016
In fact, just about everybody who lives and works in the city walks. Some of those people mostly drive from place to place, but unless they're being dropped off by a black car with door to door service, they're going to walk the last stretch. This tweet is about DC, not Philly, but lots of business owners and the city itself don't bother clearing sidewalks that they're responsible for. With this much snow, it is sometimes impossible to walk on a snow-covered sidewalk. Of course people are going to walk in the streets which are much more likely to have been cleared (often with the snow that was cleared going up on the sidewalk) More than that, pedestrians aren't dangerous. A nuisance, maybe, but not dangerous.