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Urban Planning

A SEPTA rider passes through the turnstile at the 8th and Market station. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Transportation
PlanPhilly

SEPTA quietly decriminalizes jumping turnstiles, lowers fines

Fare evaders caught by SEPTA officers receive a $25 ticket, down from $300, and do not face criminal charges. The change reflects a trend in Philadelphia policing.

7 years ago

Workers excavate a coffin from a construction site in the Old City neighborhood, Thursday, March 9, 2017, in Philadelphia. Crews working on an apartment building in Philadelphia's historic district got a shock last month when their backhoes started hitting coffins and unearthing fully intact human remains. The site was supposed to be a former burial ground from 1707, and all remains were supposedly exhumed in the 1800s and moved to a different cemetery. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
The Why
History
Philadelphia

Why there’s no system to save Philly’s hidden graves under private construction sites

Archaeologists say the remains of at least 491 people were found on a construction site in Old City. Could there be more forgotten burial grounds waiting to be unearthed?

Air Date: April 3, 2019

Listen 14:45
Princetel, a fiberoptic rotary joint manufacturer, wants to move into the former Roebling factory, in Trenton, N.J. The move could create 400 jobs. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
New Jersey

A fiber optics company hopes to bring high-tech manufacturing back to Trenton

Redevelopment of the historic John A. Roebling and Sons site would bring high-tech manufacturing back to Trenton, says Princetel CEO. Officials are considering the plan.

7 years ago

A pedestrian threads his way through snarled traffic at Broad and Chestnut streets. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Policing
Transportation
PlanPhilly

Is a crackdown on renegade drivers in Center City speeding up your commute?

Philadelphia agencies are going after drivers stopped in Center City bus lanes and they say that the result is faster trips through the city’s downtown core.

7 years ago

Philadelphia Water Department workers excavate at the intersection of 5th and Chestnut. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Infrastructure
Philadelphia
Streets & Roads
PlanPhilly

Broken pipe closes 5th Street in heart of Old City for 2 weeks

The Philadelphia Water Department has closed South 5th Street between Chestnut and Walnut in hopes of preventing a road collapse in the heart of the busy historic destination.

7 years ago

Philadelphia City Councilmember Mark Squilla
PlanPhilly
Addiction
Philadelphia
Politics

Philly Councilman Mark Squilla moves to block supervised injection site

Councilman Mark Squilla has introduced a bill that could prevent the nation’s first supervised injection site from opening at the proposed Kensington location.

7 years ago

The deadly fire that engulfed 1855 N. 21st St. began on the second floor. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Housing
Income Inequality
Philadelphia

Room to disagree: Why Philly can’t decide what to do with its illegal rooming houses

A deadly house fire at an illegal rooming house in North Philadelphia last March had city officials calling for reform. But one year later, nothing has changed.

Air Date: March 28, 2019

Listen 15:29
Terry Williams standing in one of Eastwick's polluted, urban renewal tracts.  (Troubled Waters Project)
PlanPhilly
Environment
Housing
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Philadelphia seeks to heal old Eastwick wound with a ‘village in the city’

Philadelphia’s ‘road map’ for Eastwick development moves a process 60 years in the making forward.

7 years ago

Ricardo Wilson moved into his unit in the new Sharswood Tower in North Philadelphia this week. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Sharswood residents return home after $28 million tower upgrade

Philadelphia Housing Authority reopened Sharswood Tower on Wednesday. Residents returning home celebrated their zhuzhed up digs.

7 years ago

A Philadelphia judge purchased this row home at 1514 N. Hollywood Street and the two adjacent vacant lots from the city. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Politics
Real Estate
PlanPhilly

An end to sweetheart deals? Kenney orders competitive city land sales

The new sale policies call for the sale of most property to be publicly advertised for at least 30 days.

7 years ago

Ben She is on the transit committee for an activist organization called 5th Square. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Transportation
PlanPhilly

Why SEPTA’s annual open house drew fewer riders than your morning train

Riders missed an opportunity to be in the room with SEPTA officials at annual open house.

7 years ago

Building 5 on the grounds of Norristown State Hospital. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Pennsylvania

Redevelopment coming for large parcel of Norristown State Hospital grounds

The plan to relinquish 78 acres to Norristown Borough calls for keeping mental health services on the remaining 120 acres with the option of redevelopment.

7 years ago

SEPTA may be solving its product design problems with a $2.9 million package of fixes to its e-commerce platform. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Transportation

‘Hip’ new SEPTA Key site is one of many fixes in the works

SEPTA may be solving its product design problems with a $2.9 million package of fixes to its e-commerce platform.

7 years ago

Mayor Jim Kenney and bicycle advocates in front of City Hall. (Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia/Facebook)
PlanPhilly
Transportation
PlanPhilly

Kenney: Philly streets ‘suck’ but city making progress

The city plans to speed up construction of the greatly expanded network of protected bike lanes that Mayor Jim Kenney promised during his 2015 campaign.

7 years ago

Bell's concept model of a vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi vehicle, as unveiled in January at CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas.
(Rendering courtesy of Bell)
NPR
Technology
Transportation

At South by Southwest, talks of flying taxis in the not so distant future

When the flying taxi comes, most of us will be passengers. We might hail it on our smartphones and head to the rooftop, where a ride is waiting at the helipad.

7 years ago

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