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Urban Planning

Customers often park in the bike lane while they run into the Wawa on 22nd Street, which opened a few months ago. (Jim Saksa/WHYY News)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Streets & Roads

Frustrated by Philly politicians’ failure to upgrade bike lanes, cyclists turn to the courts

For years now, bike-safety advocates have pressed Philadelphia’s elected officials to build more bike lanes and protect them with physical barrierrs

8 years ago

Listen 2:36
PlanPhilly

To prevent chronic homelessness, Philly nonprofit offers some young adults more than shelter

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Preservation

A cherished mural falls victim to Philadelphia redevelopment

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Preservation

No about-face on facadectomies in Philly just yet: They’re still pretty rare here

8 years ago

File photo: A SEPTA Regional Rail train at Suburban Station. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Transportation
PlanPhilly

Freight trains using Regional Rail lines threaten to keep SEPTA from full Positive Train Control compliance

SEPTA’s construction budget doubled after Harrisburg passed Act 89, an infrastructure-spending bill fueled by increased gas taxes.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly

One of Philly’s oldest art collectives, Space 1026, to lose its home of 20 years

8 years ago

Metal lid of a channel for rain water (bigstockphoto.com)
Infrastructure
New Jersey

Few municipalities in New Jersey will create stormwater utilities, but some should

The need to improve stormwater management is increasing every year. Costs will rise, putting pressure on local government budgets.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Public Spaces

A walking tour of North Broad, ahead of this year’s Philly Free Streets event

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Public Spaces
Streets & Roads

Floating a solution to Philadelphia’s parking-space quandary

8 years ago

A worker cleans the ornate limestone capitals of the East Portico at 30th Street Station. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Infrastructure
Philadelphia
Transportation
PlanPhilly

Facade work refreshes 30th Street Station as Amtrak shops its commercial-district plan

Engineers and architects overseeing the project detailed the great lengths they’ve had to go to in order to faithfully restore the riverside Art Deco icon.

8 years ago

Listen 2:04
Kelli McIntyre and Andy Trackman check out walking conditions along Germantown Avenue during a FeetFirstPhilly walk audit. (Meir Rinde/PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Streets & Roads
PlanPhilly

What a walk along Germantown Avenue reveals: Tough going for pedestrians

Kelli McIntyre stood in light rain on Germantown Avenue, holding a clipboard and watching as car after car ignored a “Do Not Enter” sign

8 years ago

Heitzman Playground, in Harrowgate. (Google Maps)
PlanPhilly
Changing Communities
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
PlanPhilly

Now that court has ruled, a resurgent Rebuild selects Harrowgate playground for rehab

In addition to improving the facilities’ themselves, Rebuild has been billed as a project that would enhance equity and economic development throughout the city.

8 years ago

NJ Transit will shut down its Atlantic City rail service for four months beginning Sept. 4. (WHYY file photo)

NJ Transit to halt Atlantic City line for four months during safety upgrade

Positive train control system work expected to be finished by early 2019

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Public Spaces

Philly Free Streets, Part 3, moves to North Broad on Aug. 11

8 years ago

Neighbors turn out for a recent Tacony Creek block party. (Photo courtesy of TTF Watershed Partnership)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia

With Labor Day just ahead, Philly makes block-party permit seekers work harder

Philly loves a good block party.

8 years ago

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