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Urban Planning

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

A rendering of Inglis Methodist Gardens, part of Methodist Services’ 22-acre campus off Monument Road in West Philly. (Provided)
Homelessness
Housing
Philadelphia

Nonprofits, insurer team to build subsidized apartments for Philly homeless

Inglis Methodist Gardens also will offer social services and connect its homeless and disabled tenants to nearby mental- and physical-health services.

7 years ago

A makeshift memorial is shown near the location where a mother and three young sons were struck and killed while trying to cross a busy highway after dark, Wednesday, July 17, 2013, in Philadelphia.  (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Streets & Roads
PlanPhilly

Philadelphia’s deadliest road is inching toward speed cameras

Philadelphia drivers can expect to see speed enforcement cameras on Roosevelt Boulevard by the end of the year, city officials said Thursday.

7 years ago

Nuisance tidal flooding in Seaside Park, N.J. (Dominick Solazzo)
Down the Shore
Environment
Infrastructure
New Jersey

N.J. offers $250k grant program to enhance coastal resilience planning

The Resilient NJ program seek to identify and implement innovative regional solutions to address coastal and river-related flooding.

7 years ago

A logo sign on a Hyperloop test track outside of the headquarters of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., also known as SpaceX, in Hawthorne, California, on December 10, 2017. (Kristoffer Tripplaar/Sipa USA via AP Images)
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania
Transportation

‘Hyperloop’ cargo from Philly to Pittsburgh? Officials say it’s not that far-fetched

State transportation officials are beginning to plan for a future that includes hyperloop trips at near supersonic speeds. Experts say the concept may never become a reality.

7 years ago

A ghost bike memorial to Laura Fredericks still stands at the intersection of 11th and Spruce streets, where she was struck and killed by a garbage truck while riding in the bike lane. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Transportation

Sharing the road: Why cyclists feel vulnerable in Philly’s bike lanes

It's been years since Philadelphia put in bike lanes to make the streets safer, but it hasn't always worked. Why have bike lanes if they don't protect cyclists?

Air Date: March 14, 2019

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A rendering of a mixed-use development Parkway has proposed for a surface parking lot it owns at the intersection of North Broad and Spring Garden streets. (BLT Architects/Parkway Corp.)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Philly’s Parkway Corp. seeks $5 million grant for Center City office tower

Parkway is cashing in on its Center City holdings — converting asphalt expenses into downtown office and condo towers with desirable addresses.

7 years ago

File photo: A row of houses on North 27th Street in North Philadelphia.  (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Housing
PlanPhilly

Philadelphia launches $40 million home repair loan program

A new low-interest loan program aimed at helping Philadelphia homeowners fix aging or damaged homes will provide $40 million worth of repairs to qualified applicants.

7 years ago

Nicholas Baker fought to preserve Philadelphia's remaining cast iron subway entrances, like this one at C ity Hall. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Architecture & Design
History
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Local man wins protections for Philly’s iconic cast-iron subway entrances

Nicholas Baker wanted to save Philly’s ornate subway entrances. It took 10 years, but he did it.

7 years ago

A rendering shows the design of the members-only Fitler Club. (Photo courtesy of M-Rad Architecture/Fitler Cub)
PlanPhilly
Infrastructure
PlanPhilly

Swank swim club to top off former PHA building

For any more evidence of Philadelphia’s changing cityscape, look no farther than the intersection of Ludlow and 23rd streets in Center City.

7 years ago

Children play in Dilworth Park in March.  (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
PlanPhilly

A park that makes money? Dilworth generated $2.5 million in 2018

A separate budget projection indicates that the CCD expects these revenues to increase by 58 percent by 2022.

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
PlanPhilly

Troubled Philly land sale office facing takeover after scandals

A once-obscure city office that critics link to Philadelphia’s pay-to-play political culture will soon be taken over by the Philadelphia Land Bank.

7 years ago

Mayor Jim Kenney (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Politics
PlanPhilly

Kenney’s 2019 budget falls short on spending for libraries, housing, critics say

Mayor Jim Kenney’s annual budget address proved to be a quiet affair, with little in the way of cheering, jeering, or laughter.

7 years ago

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