
PlanPhilly Archive
Some popular SEPTA bus routes may disappear before others with low ridership. Here’s why
SEPTA is under pressure to save as much money as possible, but its service-cut strategy did not eliminate all routes with low ridership and high cost per passenger.
7 hours ago
Listen 1:05Utilities could also raise rates on other customers to help cover the cost of the lost federal funds.
3 days ago
Listen 1:29Philly hopes to slow down traffic on Lincoln Drive by adding speed slots
The city’s Streets Department has started installing the vertical deflection devices as part of a pilot project designed to make the state road safer.
5 days ago
Listen 1:19Philly ballot measure would send more dollars to city fund for affordable housing
Supporters say the measure closes a loophole created by an incentive program designed to create more affordable housing in the city.
1 week ago
Listen 1:17The 1985 bombing claimed the lives of 11 people, including five children, and destroyed dozens of homes in the Cobbs Creek section of West Philadelphia.
2 weeks ago
Listen 6:45The mayor wants Council to adopt her Housing Opportunities Made Easy initiative in tandem with the city’s next budget. Lawmakers will put their $.02 in before that happens.
2 weeks ago
No free A/C units through LIHEAP in Pennsylvania this summer
The program, funded primarily with COVID relief money, provided free air conditioning units and fans the last three summers. It saw overwhelming demand.
2 weeks ago
Listen 1:04Built in the 1990s, Philadelphia’s Kings Highway Apartments comprises 27 buildings along Frankford Avenue. Odin Properties bought and renovated them last year.
3 weeks ago
Listen 1:08Philly’s commuter foot traffic outpaced most peer cities’ downtowns in 2024
The majority of workers who commute into the urban core have returned since the COVID-19 pandemic began five years ago, according to the annual State of Center City report.
3 weeks ago
Listen 0:50More than 1.2 million international visitors traveled to Philadelphia last year, but far fewer tourists are expected to visit in 2025.
3 weeks ago
Most legislation to raise the minimum wage in Pennsylvania doesn’t survive a committee vote, but two years ago a bill passed the House but stalled in the Senate.
3 weeks ago
Listen 0:53Close to a dozen residents of the flood-prone neighborhood met with members of Congress Tuesday.
3 weeks ago
Listen 1:10Without SEPTA, Philly businesses worry about lack of parking, traffic gridlock
Service cuts could add 275,000 more vehicles to the road, and business leaders are concerned about congestion and lack of parking for commuters.
3 weeks ago
Listen 1:00Pennsylvania exporters brace for the cost of retaliatory tariffs during Trump’s trade war
Retaliatory tariffs are hurting some Pennsylvania exporters trying to sell American products abroad during Donald Trump’s trade war.
3 weeks ago
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