The Philadelphia Police Department began yesterday patrolling areas of the city on 10 new Segways.
Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey told KYW that the two-wheel motorized units extend an officer’s capabilities.
“On a Segway, you are able to get down there very, very quickly, so it does extend your ability to patrol very, very significantly.”
The new Segway police [...]

(update 7/20/09: On Thurs, July 16. SEPTA  rejected its Citizens Advisory Committee’s recommendation to end the male/female sticker policy. SEPTA General Manager Joe Casey says the stickers remain a useful too in discouraging train pass sharing.)
If you are a regular rider of the Philadelphia region’s commuter rail service, then you’ve probably purchased a weekly or [...]

Does anyone know what a “Steak Tah Cheese” is?
Six seconds into this promotion video the announcer says “Steak Tah Cheese.”
Rewind.
He says it again. “Steak Tah Cheese.”
Why I am stuck on this “Steak Tah Cheese” thing? Well, I was watching Mayor Michael Nutter on Fox29 this morning, when the hosts played a clip of a new [...]

More than a hundred cellphone-packing vandals swarmed parts of South Philadelphia over the weekend in what can only be described as a major smart mob attack. The term “smart mob” was coined by futurist Howard Rheingold who uses it to describe how a geographically dispersed people can be drawn together at any moment to perform [...]

By Sandy Wiggins
I love our new Greenworks Philadelphia plan. Goal #7 calls for diverting 70% of our City’s solid waste from landfills by the year 2015. It’s an ambitious target considering our current 12% recycling rate, but one that is achievable as evidenced by other cities across the country like San Francisco, which is currently [...]