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Cobbs Creek neighbors (from left) Leonard Bonarek, Lisa Love, Marthenia Perrin and Larissa Mogano stand at Cobbs Creek Parkway and Catharine Street, where Avante Reynolds was killed in a hit and run. They’ve been pushing for traffic-calming devices on Cobbs Creek Parkway for a decade. (Michaela Winberg/WHYY)
The Why
Urban Planning

Racism and deadly traffic on Cobbs Creek Parkway

Cobbs Creek residents have been complaining that the road is dangerous for decades. Neighbors there have called for greater safety measures, but little has changed.

Air Date: September 8, 2020

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City recycling truck gets stuck in Port Richmond sinkhole
Urban Planning
Billy Penn

City recycling truck gets stuck in Port Richmond sinkhole

Work has been ongoing on Livingston Street for more than a year.

5 years ago

(Danya Henninger / Billy Penn)
Community
Billy Penn

Indego, Inde-gone: Philly begins installing GPS after record 330 bikes go missing

Ridership is up, but the city has struggled to stop vehicles from disappearing.

5 years ago

High water levels of the Schuylkill River post-Isaias
Weather

I-676 reopens after barge cleared from Schuylkill; Philly region under flash flood warning

Three connected barges that drifted free of their Schuylkill River moorings Tuesday night and crashed into the Vine Street Expressway bridge have been removed.

5 years ago

Some city residents say they are fed up with delayed trash collection. The city says sanitation workers are worked harder than ever, due to more people staying home and making more trash. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

‘Mad or nah?’: Philly residents react to delays in trash pickups

Tamara Russell aka Revive P.O.C hits the streets of Philadelphia to see how residents feel about delays in trash pickups.

5 years ago

Listen 4:29
Some city residents say they are fed up with delayed trash collection. The city says sanitation workers are worked harder than ever, due to more people staying home and making more trash. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Why
Health

Philly’s trash problem was already bad. Now, it’s worse

Sidewalks in Philadelphia neighborhoods are covered with plastic bags full of trash that haven't been collected in a week. And nobody know when it's going to get picked up.

Air Date: July 30, 2020

Listen 13:37
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Community

Pa. Turnpike: Toll hike, 45-percent non-EZ pass surcharge coming

Officials said the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission on Tuesday approved a 6 percent increase for EZ-Pass users as well those without passes in the “Toll by Plate" program.

5 years ago

South Philly bike lane
Urban Planning
Billy Penn

A $2 million Vision Zero budget cut could imperil future Philly traffic safety projects

Current renovations will continue as planned, but capital funding is at risk.

5 years ago

Taylor Corbin, 4, (center) helps block captain Roslyn Myers inflate a hopper ball
PlanPhilly
Community

100 extremely hot Philly blocks are getting super soakers and other toys to beat the heat

Philadelphia is expanding its Playstreets program to help cool the city’s hottest neighborhoods.

5 years ago

A SEPTA bus approaches City Hall in a bus lane.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly officials support automated bus lane enforcement and say it could improve ‘transit equity’

State Rep. Martina White plans a bill that would create two pilot programs using a system in which cameras record and ticket drivers who park in bus lanes.

5 years ago

A street sweeper works along Kensington Avenue
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Street sweeping to continue in 6 Philly neighborhoods and on business corridors

Budget cuts, however, will prevent a planned expansion of the city’s street cleaning program.

5 years ago

(Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Philly police no longer welcome in Vision Zero as bicyclists reckon with racism

The Bicycle Coalition will no “longer advocate for armed police enforcement” of safer streets rules. Philly officials say city policy could shift as well.

5 years ago

City workers and activists paint the words Black Lives Matter in enormous bright yellow letters on the the street leading to the White House, Friday, June 5, 2020, in Washington.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Community

DC paints huge Black Lives Matter mural near White House

“The section of 16th street in front of the White House is now officially ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza,’” Bowser tweeted. A sign was put up to mark the change.

5 years ago

Pennsylvania Turnpike
Community

Pennsylvania Turnpike to go cashless permanently, laying off 500 toll collectors

About 500 fare collectors and other toll workers along the Pennsylvania Turnpike are about to those their jobs.

5 years ago

Police ride through Philadelphia after night of unrest
Community

Philly renews curfew, SEPTA suspends service to Center City amid ongoing unrest

The shutdown was announced amid ongoing protests over police brutality and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

5 years ago

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