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The Gallery mall covered three blocks on Market Street in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Urban Planning

The Gallery: Past, Present, and Future

Our very first episode considers the forces that shaped the Gallery mall in Philadelphia, and what forces will shape its future incarnation.

Air Date: October 23, 2018

Listen 14:56
Oxford Circle - Google Street View
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Roosevelt Boulevard speed cameras represent rare bipartisan win

Between 2011 and 2015, Roosevelt Boulevard’s 16-mile stretch has tallied six percent of the city’s total of crashes and 13 percent of its traffic fatalities.

8 years ago

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers image.
Down the Shore
Community

Feds consider floodwalls, gates to protect N.J. back bay areas

Could there be some light at the end of the long tunnel for New Jersey's pervasive back bay flooding problem?

8 years ago

A sled speeds down a track during a test of a Hyperloop One propulsion system, Wednesday, May 11, 2016, in North Las Vegas, Nev. The startup company opened its test site outside of Las Vegas for the first public demonstration of technology for a super-speed, tube based transportation system. (AP Photo/John Locher)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

A Philly-Pittsburgh Hyperloop? State House resolution calls for feasibility study

It’s not hyperbole to say that no contemporary transit proposal has received as much hype as the Hyperloop.

8 years ago

(J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo, file)
Courts & Law

New Jersey may require extra steps before utilities can shut off power

A new bill would require electric companies to inquire if customers suffer a health impairment before power was cut off.

8 years ago

Google image.
Down the Shore
Community

Bridge connecting 2 Jersey Shore towns to close until spring

Officials say a bridge that links two Cape May County municipalities will close once again for repair and maintenance work.

8 years ago

Delaware Memorial Bridge (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Community

Delaware Memorial Bridge second span marks 50 years

It may be the only Delaware landmark millions of Americans have ever visited.

8 years ago

President Trump tosses paper towels into a crowd in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria hit the island in 2017.
(Evan Vucci/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

FACT CHECK: ‘Puerto Rico was an incredible, unsung success’?

Last month, the death toll for Hurricane Maria was just revised from 64 to 2,975.

8 years ago

One of Doylestown's decorative street lamps near the intersection of Main and State streets. (Google Maps)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Bill seeks to streamline faster wireless broadband, steamroll local control of the streetscape

Opponents, however, fear the bill will simply preempt local control of an inherently local issue.

8 years ago

Listen 3:44
NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, August 28, 2018

We draw the curtains back to peek behind the scenes at the city of Philadelphia.  All the components of city life, like water and sewag ...

Air Date: August 28, 2018

Listen 21:27
Montgomery County plans to add 800 miles of bike paths to its on-road bicycle system. (Nathaniel Hamilton for WHYY News, file)
Community

Montco approves plan for 800 miles of bike paths

The new master plan approved last week, calls for adding bike lanes in towns, near high schools, colleges, and transit stops, and to connect to park trails.

8 years ago

Metal lid of a channel for rain water (bigstockphoto.com)
Urban Planning

Few municipalities in New Jersey will create stormwater utilities, but some should

The need to improve stormwater management is increasing every year. Costs will rise, putting pressure on local government budgets.

8 years ago

A worker cleans the ornate limestone capitals of the East Portico at 30th Street Station. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Facade work refreshes 30th Street Station as Amtrak shops its commercial-district plan

Engineers and architects overseeing the project detailed the great lengths they’ve had to go to in order to faithfully restore the riverside Art Deco icon.

8 years ago

Listen 2:04
Gregorio Pac Cojulun (left), and Dan Schupsky, an outreach specialist, stroll along one of the new sidewalks. (Meir Rinde/PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Rain, rain flows away, no longer puddles at Malcolm X Park

As happens on many blocks around the city, heavy rains used to turn the southeast corner of Malcolm X Memorial Park in West Philadelphia into a deep puddle.

8 years ago

Homeowner Joan Kimball celebrates her home's conversion to solar power under a the Philadelphia Energy Campaign. Kimball's home, on Fairmount Avenue, became the 150th to go solar since the launch of the campaign to promote clean energy and create jobs
Urban Planning

Solarize Philly celebrates 150 homes switching to solar, more to come

Solarize Philly aims to make solar energy affordable to local homeowners.

8 years ago

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