Auto Glass Across West Oak Lane and the Cheltenham Line

Everything on the Philadelphia side of this list either runs onto Ogontz Avenue or crosses it somewhere. West Oak Lane and the Ogontz corridor are close enough that people hand over the keys and walk home for the hour. Cedarbrook is immediately north, up toward where Stenton Avenue meets Cheltenham Avenue. East Oak Lane lies a short run east over Broad Street, and Fern Rock is the other way, south along Ogontz to where it lands on Broad by the transportation center. Mount Airy arrives on Washington Lane or Stenton Avenue in around ten minutes, and Chestnut Hill is another ten beyond that up Germantown Avenue — the Belgian block and the old trolley rail still set into that stretch being one reason Chestnut Hill chips so often turn up already running. Dropping the car beats waiting with it here. A windshield occupies it for roughly an hour plus its cure, and there is an avenue full of somewhere to be in the meantime.

Cheltenham Avenue is the city line, and the six towns above it are near enough that distance is rarely what decides anything. Melrose Park and Elkins Park sit on Old York Road a couple of minutes over; Wyncote is west of it around Greenwood Avenue and Church Road; Jenkintown follows. Abington and Willow Grove continue north on Old York Road, twenty minutes or so when the lights cooperate, and Glenside is on Easton Road, which climbs north from the Cheltenham Avenue end. What changes above the line is not the drive but the parking: driveways and open lots instead of permit blocks, which happens to be the one condition a mobile fit depends on — clear room beside the car and dry air to bond in. Below the line, with the car at a curb and a bus going by the mirror, coming to Ogontz Avenue is usually the faster answer. The counter is open 9 to 5 Monday through Saturday and closed all day Sunday, so a Saturday-night break-in means plastic taped over the opening and a Monday morning phone call. 215-608-1108 gets you a straight answer on which of those applies to you.