{"id":94608572,"date":"2011-10-17T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/philadelphia-looks-to-channel-new-york-city-s-highline-park\/"},"modified":"2014-08-04T12:28:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T12:28:43","slug":"philadelphia-looks-to-channel-new-york-city-s-highline-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/philadelphia-looks-to-channel-new-york-city-s-highline-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Looks to Channel New York City\u2019s Highline Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Highline Park in New York City (Flickr image courtesy of  thefors)\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/10\/Highline_Park.jpg\" alt=\"Highline Park in New York City (Flickr image courtesy of thefors)\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Highline Park in New York City <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some officials in <strong><a href=\"\/tag\/philadelphia\/default\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><\/strong> are hoping to channel New York City\u2019s Highline Park when it comes to re-developing the abandoned Reading Viaduct, an elevated railway that ceased to function in the City of Brotherly Love back in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A plan to develop the viaduct into green spaced fizzled out in 2003 but has gained new traction with the success of New York\u2019s Highline. Thousands of people arriving on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/cheap-flights-to-new-york-city-nyc-new-york\" target=\"_blank\">flights to New York City<\/a><\/strong> have been flocking to the one-of-a-kind, elevated park time and time again, proving that it is much more than just a gimmick.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though a recent survey showed that re-developing the viaduct would cost nearly $14 million more than simply demolishing it, several roadblocks persist in bringing the green space plan to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The project is low on funding and the owner of the viaduct has yet to agree to any plans for re-development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: CBS News <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Flickr: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thefors\/5036737675\/sizes\/l\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">thefors <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Highline Park in New York City &nbsp; Some officials in Philadelphia are hoping to channel New York City\u2019s Highline Park when it comes to re-developing the abandoned Reading Viaduct, an elevated railway that ceased to function in the City of Brotherly Love back in 1984. &nbsp; A plan to develop the viaduct into green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97168522,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608572\/revisions\/97168522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}