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Infrastructure

Forty percent of Philadelphians — many of them with lower incomes — drink bottled water at home, so a coalition is promoting tap water to residents. (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
Community

Drink Philly Tap wants you to drink the city’s wooder

Forty percent of Philadelphians — many of them with lower incomes — drink bottled water at home, so a coalition is promoting tap water to residents.

7 years ago

New York's Brooklyn Bridge is one of more than 47,000 bridges identified as
NPR
Urban Planning

Report finds more than 47,000 ‘structurally deficient’ bridges in the U.S.

The collapse of a bridge earlier this week in Tennessee is raising new alarms about the delicate state of infrastructure across the U.S.

7 years ago

PennDot snowplow (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

PennDOT asks for feedback on winter weather cleanup

A glutton for punishment? PennDOT is asking for feedback on how it did clearing roads of ice and snow over the winter.

7 years ago

Philadelphia Water Department workers excavate at the intersection of 5th and Chestnut. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Broken pipe closes 5th Street in heart of Old City for 2 weeks

The Philadelphia Water Department has closed South 5th Street between Chestnut and Walnut in hopes of preventing a road collapse in the heart of the busy historic destination.

8 years ago

Salvadoran migrants wait for transportation after turning themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas — where a border fence is under construction. The Pentagon says it will spend up to $1 billion to help build the fence. (Paul Ratje /AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Money

Pentagon takes $1 billion from military personnel account to build border fence

The Department of Defense is shifting $1 billion from a military personnel account to build a 57-mile fence at the southern U.S. border.

8 years ago

Mustafa Santiago Ali (left) discusses water system vulnerabilities in the U.S. with Zoe Roller (middle) and Emily Kutil (right) at the 12th Annual Global Water Alliance Conference. (Dana Bate/WHYY)
Health

Water access is a problem in the U.S., affecting minority and rural groups the most

The Global Water Alliance symposium focused on challenges to clean-water access and underscored that the problem isn’t confined to the developing world.

8 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf visits Taggart Elementary School in South Philadelphia to stump for legislation that would tax natural gas extraction to pay for school improvements. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Gov. Wolf highlights Philly school conditions in severance tax push

Gov. Tom Wolf is once again pushing for a severance tax on Pennsylvania’s natural gas producers — this time by focusing on how the money could be used for schools.

8 years ago

A logo sign on a Hyperloop test track outside of the headquarters of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., also known as SpaceX, in Hawthorne, California, on December 10, 2017. (Kristoffer Tripplaar/Sipa USA via AP Images)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Regional Roundup – 3/18/19

In our Monday Regional Roundup, we talk about a proposed hyperloop for Pa, Delaware's popular vote bill, and teenage sleep and school start times.

Air Date: March 18, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:44
Nuisance tidal flooding in Seaside Park, N.J. (Dominick Solazzo)
Down the Shore
Urban Planning

N.J. offers $250k grant program to enhance coastal resilience planning

The Resilient NJ program seek to identify and implement innovative regional solutions to address coastal and river-related flooding.

8 years ago

A rendering shows the design of the members-only Fitler Club. (Photo courtesy of M-Rad Architecture/Fitler Cub)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Swank swim club to top off former PHA building

For any more evidence of Philadelphia’s changing cityscape, look no farther than the intersection of Ludlow and 23rd streets in Center City.

8 years ago

The coal-fired Tata Mundra power plant in western India was funded by a branch of the World Bank. A group of farmers and fishermen are suing, claiming that contamination of local water sources has disrupted their livelihoods. (Sami Siva/International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)
NPR
Courts & Law

Supreme Court rules that World Bank can be sued

The World Bank can be sued when its overseas investments go awry. And so can some other international organizations.

8 years ago

A rendering of a storm surge barrier. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers image)
Down the Shore
Urban Planning

Study: Storm surge barrier a ‘viable option’ at numerous N.J. inlets

Is a storm surge barrier at New Jersey inlets an option to mitigate back bay flooding? A joint federal and state study as it's a "viable option."

8 years ago

Vehicles arrive at the Delaware toll plaza
Politics & Policy

1,000 drivers revving up to test idea of replacing fuel tax with mileage-based user fee

Delaware won a third federal grant to explore the pros and cons of a system that would charge drivers a tax based on how far they drove.

8 years ago

(Emma Lee/WHYY)
Radio Times
Urban Planning

Driving in Philly: What’s behind the city’s traffic

Why is congestion so bad in Philadelphia and how can transportation be improved for drivers, cyclists, walkers, and everyone in between?

Air Date: February 19, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:37
An Atlantic City Rail Line train to 30th Street Station in Philadelphia arrives in Lindenwold, N.J. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Down the Shore
Community

Congressman slams NJ Transit over ongoing Atlantic City Rail Line closure

The shutdown of rail service between Philadelphia and Atlantic City that began late last summer is going to last a few more months, officials say. 

8 years ago

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