For safer streets, Philly advocates have legislative priorities for fall session

More than 60 community groups across Philly and surrounding suburbs will plant trees April 11 to 14.

Aimed to make crossing the street safer, pedestrian "refuge islands" are being built at more than a dozen intersections along Chestnut Street in West Philly.

Developments have been proposed for three outlier sites. But some speculate that one of Philly’s “eds and meds” heavyweights could still enter the mix.