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Urban Planning

30th Street Station. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Transportation

SEPTA won’t take paper tickets on Regional Rail any more — get your Key ready

Riders can now tap their SEPTA Key card at the platform validators or turnstiles at the beginning and end of their trip and load weekly and monthly passes on to the card.

5 years ago

A notice informs the public of the closure of the Somerset Street El stop
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Transportation

SEPTA says it will reopen Somerset Station earlier than anticipated

The Market-Frankford Line station will reopen Sunday to local residents. It opens officially at 5 a.m. Monday.

5 years ago

A student walks through the halls of Cardozo High School
PlanPhilly
K-12
Philadelphia
Public Health

D.C. raised $5 billion to rebuild toxic schools. Can Philly do the same?

Over the last two decades, D.C. has modernized 75% of its public schools. Philly school advocates say lessons can be learned from the movement there.

5 years ago

President Joe Biden delivers a speech
PlanPhilly
Economy
Infrastructure
Streets & Roads
Transportation

New trolleys, safer streets, e-buses: Philly could benefit from Biden’s infrastructure plan

Here is what Biden’s new plan could mean for Philadelphia’s future, according to four local transportation experts.

5 years ago

Homes on North 50th Street in West Philadelphia.
PlanPhilly
Housing
Income Inequality
Philadelphia
Real Estate

West Philly state rep. to introduce bill banning sheriff sales through August

Rep. Amen Brown expects to introduce legislation to halt sheriff sales in the city through much of the summer — just days before auctions are slated to resume.

5 years ago

Workers at Amazon's fulfillment center in Staten Island, N.Y., gather outside to protest work condition
PlanPhilly
Business
Philadelphia
Transportation

Primed: New Amazon warehouse derails land deal for SEPTA trolley facility

SEPTA’s trolley modernization project faces a setback after Amazon outbid the agency on a Southwest Philadelphia parcel it wanted to turn into a trolley barn.

5 years ago

Philly rowhouses
PlanPhilly
Housing
Philadelphia
Real Estate

Philly Council calls for hearings after sudden switch to online sheriff sales

City Councilmember Cherelle Parker wants to know why Sheriff Rochelle Bilal is selling the city’s distressed real estate on an online bidding platform.

5 years ago

Kensington residents gather at SEPTA’s Somerset Station to protest its closure
PlanPhilly
Infrastructure
Public Safety
Transportation

SEPTA to reopen Somerset Station after repairs with a new police booth, more security

The temporarily closed Somerset Station on the Market Frankford Line could reopen by May — and when riders return, they can expect to see a police presence.

5 years ago

Adrian Bondy, a leader of the Build Like You Live Here neighborhood organization, speaks to protesters during a rally at 2400 East Huntingdon Street. A seven-story building is planned for that address in a neighborhood of two- and three-story rowhouses. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Neighborhoods
Philadelphia
Real Estate

Neighbors protest Olde Richmond developer with checkered past

Developer Gagandeep Lakhmna faces loud opposition from people who live near his latest project in Philadelphia's Olde Richmond neighborhood.

5 years ago

The entrance to the 15th Street subway station, across the street from City Hall. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Transportation

SEPTA hiring 60 security guards for Market Frankford Line

The unarmed guards will assist SEPTA police officers as the transit agency works to improve safety amid a citywide violence epidemic.

5 years ago

Darlene Burton speaks from a megaphone at a protest over Somerset Station's closure
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Social Justice
Transportation

‘We shouldn’t have to get less’: Kensington residents protest Somerset Station closure

Residents gathered to protest the temporary closure of Somerset Station — a lifeline to jobs, appointments, and school for those who have continued to use it mid-pandemic.

5 years ago

The owner of the former Spring Garden train station, once a stop on the Reading Railroad,  filed for permits to demolish the historic structure. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Preservation
Transportation

Philly’s Spring Garden railroad station to be torn down despite efforts to save it

A successor to the Reading Railroad Company filed permits to demolish the historic train station months after a group filed a conservatorship petition to save it.

5 years ago

Pizza menus litter a South Philadelphia block. (WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
Sustainability

Study: No, you aren’t imagining it — pizza menus are Philly’s sidewalk carpet

A study conducted using the Litterati app found 1,000 pieces of advertising litter on the ground. Pizza sellers were the main driver of stray menus documented by researchers.

5 years ago

This rendering shows a newly built condo development in the Graduate Hospital section of Philadelphia. (The Stafford Group/  Gnome Architecture)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Neighborhoods
Philadelphia
Eyes on the Street

To thrive, Philly needs more housing — not more rules limiting builders

Pro-housing development activists call on the mayor to veto a bill they argue will hamper efforts to address the city’s growing affordability challenge.

5 years ago

I-95 in Wilmington.
Delaware
Infrastructure
Public Spaces

Wilmington lawmakers appeal to feds for I-95 cap to reunite the city

Could having a Delawarean in the White House help create a long-hoped for rooftop park over I-95 through Wilmington? Some city lawmakers hope so.

5 years ago

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