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Urban Planning

A PATCO fare gate at the 8th and Market stop.
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Transportation

PATCO still on track to reopen Franklin Square Station despite pandemic hit

Construction on the Philadelphia transit stop is set to begin next summer and be completed around 2024.

5 years ago

A SEPTA worker walks through the 69th Street SEPTA repair shop
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Transportation

Rust, cracked steel and corrosion: SEPTA MFL cars plagued with problems

The 1990s’-era M-4 cars have required a steady stream of repairs at a time when SEPTA faces an unprecedented fiscal challenge.

5 years ago

Student-Run Emergency Housing Unit of Philadelphia's project proposal for the Mill Creek Aspen Street Tiny Village. (Courtesy of SREHUP)
PlanPhilly
Homelessness
Housing
Philadelphia

Philly advocates push Pa. lawmakers to adopt tiny homes building codes

In Philadelphia, tiny houses are burdensome to build. A change to state building code would eliminate hurdles, advocates say.

5 years ago

NJ Transit
New Jersey
Transportation

NJ Transit completes installation of automatic braking system on rail lines

Riders faced intermittent delays over the past three years as the Murphy administration, contractors, and federal officials raced to meet the 2020 deadline.

5 years ago

Snow falls at City Hall on Dec. 16, 2020. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Transportation

SEPTA selects San Francisco firm to redesign bus network

The redesign is expected to kick off in early 2021 and last for three years with the goal of adapting the city’s bus network to meet changing demands.

5 years ago

When a car crashed into Donna Price’s fence, it lit her lawn on fire. (Courtesy of Donna Price)
PlanPhilly
Neighborhoods
Public Safety
Streets & Roads

After a fiery crash, a Sharswood block captain is changing the traffic rules for her community

“This is not a Nascar racing zone,” Donna Price, a North Philadelphia block captain, said. “We’re going to slow it down and have safety for our children.”

5 years ago

Signage telling people to
PlanPhilly
Infrastructure
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
Eyes on the Street

Seriously, where are Philly’s public restrooms?

Public space writer Conrad Benner makes the case for public potties and talks to city officials about plans for a network of restrooms.

5 years ago

Listen 7:52
SEPTA’s Midvale bus depot was a hotspot for COVID-19.
PlanPhilly
Technology
Transportation

SEPTA malware attack busted automated rider counters used to stop transit crowding

The automatic passenger counting system that checks SEPTA buses and trolleys for overcrowding remains inactive about four months after the malware attack.

5 years ago

Kendra Bowden-Ponder, her husband Quan and their three children Ja’Lissa, 6, Jordyn, 1, and Kayleb, 10 months, are facing eviction. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Income Inequality
Neighborhoods

Report: West Philadelphia renters face a growing risk of displacement

More than half of all renters in West Philadelphia’s District 3 struggle to pay rent. Without policy change, many could be priced out, a new report suggests.

5 years ago

Former Showboat casino in Atlantic City, N.J.
Business
New Jersey

$100M water park at Showboat hotel OK’d, tax break pending

The key to making the project work — 20 years of tax breaks the Showboat's owner is seeking — has not yet been decided.

5 years ago

A SEPTA rider dons a surgical mask. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Health
Transportation

SEPTA and Drexel team up to stop the spread of COVID-19 on public transit

Together, the institutions will pursue more than $600,000 in federal funding to develop and test new air and surface cleaning technology.

5 years ago

A SEPTA bus approaches City Hall in a bus lane.
PlanPhilly
Income Inequality
Philadelphia
Transportation

SEPTA wants to delay planned fare increases in hopes of luring riders back

The transit agency was set to increase fares at the start of the new year in January.

5 years ago

Octavia Howell, formerly of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, records residents' input on the Lower Northwest District Plan. (Matthew Grady/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Economic Development
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

Philadelphia aims to bring Black and brown advisers into next city master plan

The Kenney administration hopes a new committee can help center Black and brown voices in the city’s next comprehensive planning process.

5 years ago

A bicyclist rides over a new bicycle counter embedded under the surface of Center City bike lane. (DVRPC)
PlanPhilly
Public Spaces
Streets & Roads
Transportation

Philadelphia is counting bicyclists with new tech embedded in the street

Philadelphia has installed permanent bicycle use counters along two heavily used Center City bike lanes.

5 years ago

Locked gates at FDR Park’s ballfields. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Outdoors
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
Billy Penn

Parks and Rec is reopening some fields usually locked for winter so people have more outdoor options

Details are still unclear on the policy change, which was spurred by Twitter requests.

5 years ago

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