Gunner's Run

This former stream became so entwined with industrial use that it was eventually folded into the city’s sewer system. What had begun as a natural drainage line ended as one of those wonderfully grim urban transformations in which a creek becomes a utility, then a memory, then a map curiosity. The route is a reminder that cities love straight lines more than brooks.

Southwest Philadelphia to the Schuylkill corridor, Philadelphia, PA, USA