PlanPhilly Archive

Philadelphia’s system for collecting waste and recycling remains troubled nearly one year after the pandemic began.

After a bruising pandemic year, the city faces a steep budget shortfall. Service cuts, tax hikes, and privatization or sale of city assets are on the table.

Bus drivers and others on SEPTA’s frontlines describe harassment and attacks as part of the job. The pandemic has worsened the situation, some say.

This tax season, Philadelphia isn’t offering the 1% discount on real estate taxes for early payment that it has given in years past.

A successor company to the Reading Railroad, which hasn't operated train cars since 1976, is fighting an effort to force repairs to a derelict train station it owns in Philly.

As City Council and Mayor Kenney continue to clash over a resolution to declare gun violence an emergency, Philadelphians on the frontlines call for leadership.

The pandemic turned a place for cozy seasonal displays into a space for public dialogue.

Laura Sims Skate House was the first U.S. ice skating rink created for an African American community by an African American architect.

The Center for Architecture and Design in Philadelphia honors Mindy Fullilove, while pondering how to remediate the PES refinery site.

As SEPTA honored Rosa Parks on her birthday, history remembers Caroline LeCount, who risked her life to desegregate 19th century Philadelphia’s streetcars.

City Council unanimously passed the measure to create a council-led Zoning Code Review Commission to help revise the regulations that govern land use.

While progressive donors and PACs came out for Krasner, police unions, former prosecutors and Sean Schellenger’s mother have supported Vega.

The positions are just a sliver of SEPTA’s 9,400-strong workforce, but the handful of part-timers collectively cost the agency about $1 million a year.

Philadelphia teens working with Photography Without Borders captured the range of emotions of life in lockdown.

The CDC order allows transit operators to refuse service to unmasked riders. SEPTA said it won’t do that but it urges compliance.