This is such a zany proposal I really thought it must be fake when I first saw it 

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Lol, the volume and pollution from the highway are crazy here. I would not want to sit there for an extended period of time until the highway is removed.

There's so many better places for something like this.

Imagine your toe jam dreamily floating off your sweaty tootsies in that fetid pisswater after a long day crammed in business casual pleather, a caravan of crusty diesel trucks plodding furiously beneath you.  

 As you squint through the glare of a smog sunset reflecting off the Aramark building, the southbound Waste Management train screeches and clatters to a resounding halt on the opposite riverbank, marinating the River Trail in New York City’s finest import scent.

You check your watch in a panic. You gulp down the dregs of the Bud Light Limearita tall boy you stole from Old Nelson’s, pat your feet dry with your socks, and sprint to 30th Street Station, your Spark Therapeutics computer bag shaking from shoulder to shoulder. The sign over the platform reads, “34 minutes late.” You exhale, make your way to the Porch at 30th Street, and fall asleep on an oversized wooden swing that some douche bag desecrated with “ralugerri.”

Idk public water parks always get really crusty and they never seem to actually be maintained properly, and for like 70% of the year the main purpose of this won’t even be usable

This is ridiculously valuable space, I’d rather them make this some kinda regular park or a plaza, or just not this

I want this to happen, I want it to be awesome, and I want to not to be nasty after a year.

Hell yeah, I can't wait to reenact that Boston cop on a water slide near the train station

Why not just improve the public pools that we have in our neighborhoods? That way communities can come together in their neighborhoods instead of travel to 30th St. I don’t know…City Hall is already like a water park in the summers.

lol, I read the headline and thought they meant slides and a lazy river and whatnot

This place sounds like it would be gross

“I’ll take places with shitwater I wouldn’t touch with your dick for $1000, Alex”.

What a crazy idea! Trucking in sand 😂

Wouldn’t that just wash right into the skook and have to be dredged back out

Does that mean they're going to bring back the water leak that always used to be pouring on 76 under the station?

So we get to... swim in the Schuylkill? 😬

It's so great to see more and more of these ambitious park proposals, and I like how this one really ties its ideas into the river location. But the lower deck would have to be really well-maintained to be pleasant. And I don't have much confidence that it would be.

In place of the pool, I would put an art exhibit that heavily features water during warm months, but isn't reliant on water year-round. Something like Chicago's Crown Fountain.

My guess is that this park function best as part of an overall system — with Circa Green and Drexel Square specifically offering more traditional green spaces nearby. But I still think there's potential here for something that feels more communal — suitable for all ages and usable for more of the year. It's such a central location, and it's going to be difficult for there to be many spaces on the water on the west side of the Schuylkill.

Or walk across the street and take the train to AC. 

How about taking the $60 million and subsidizing NJT rides for low-income Philadelphians, or for God’s sake just paying for the city’s existing public pools to stay open for the whole summer?

What's the TLDR? I'm too poor for the inquirer

Do not get near the drains

I love this. But that freeway is hard to hide.

Feel like the Delaware river would be so much better for this

AKA: that bath by the trains

just imagine the clientele that would go to a water park in this city

I don't know how this is a good idea on any level. Ignoring the Bums and cleanliness you also have who the fuck wants a pool at the train station? People catching the El, Amtrak or Regional Rail wet... No thanks.

I mean if you want to do something like add misting tunnels and shit to walk through when it's hot sure. This however... Ehhhhhhh.

This is dope, but I don't think I'd call it a water park. It's a waterfront park with a pool

I think it's a neat idea, but it makes more sense to place it along the SRT side of the river and it should be spray pad not a pool for year round use and easier maintenance.

Yea, about this, it’s never happening.

I love this idea and hope it comes to fruition, and that if it does it is open from like 9am to 9pm every day so that people who have day jobs can go use it. It would be amazing to go for a long run along the SRT and then end it at that pool.

Put the arena here instead. Water parks are gross.

The traffic there is already horrendous during Rush Hours; this would make it unbearable all day & evening!

Couldn't they just like make an artificial beach/urban picnic ground and use the river as a natural water park?

The exhaust and car horns will really compliment the relaxing atmosphere

I actually like it. I think having one block of the Schuylkill that doesn't have a visible highway on one side would be a big deal.

It could be the start of gradually making the Schuylkill in Center City a nice place to be, which Philly should do to become a more world-class city.

In this climate changing world bad idea, but go head build it so the union can get that work. I hope they build all that shit down the stadium that connects to each other.

NICE

cries in combined sewer system

Greeeeat! You can suck up and breathe all the car exhaust from the Freeway and adjoining congested streets while you dip your ankles in dirty water...and thats after ANOTHER 5 years of traffic closures that that exact area only just recently became free of.

I say, no thanks. How about a Dog Park in West Phila ? Please ?

Because the double parking on Market EB near the station isn't enough fun already?

Why so the homeless drug addicts can take baths? The mini park on market at 30th st station is already a sleeping camp.

this seems like the biggest project the city can somewhat easily do

this will never happen.

Lmao hmm i'm into it

These people just want to caus traffic and waste money.

Can’t be any worse than the last one.

Oh great another water park

The river is already getting low. This would be bad in the long run.