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Streets & Roads

Wilmington officials say the new LED lighting will make the streets safer, and cut energy consumption by 40% to 50%. (Zöe Read/WHYY)
Community

Wilmington’s installing thousands of new, energy-efficient LED street lights

Wilmington officials say the new LED lighting will make the streets safer, and cut energy consumption by 40% to 50%.

6 years ago

A SEPTA bus travels west on Walnut Street.
Urban Planning

SEPTA gets bold with new transit map

New transit maps coming to 100 stations

6 years ago

Vine Street Expressway  (Ashley Hahn/Plan Philly)
Urban Planning

The downside of highways: Philly Fed economists research freeway revolts, barrier effects

Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia found that between 1950 and 2010 highways slowed growth in income, population, and land values in city centers.

6 years ago

A worker bolts on a sign changing a block of Broad Street Patti LaBelle Way. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

City misspells Patti LaBelle’s name on honorary street sign

Philadelphia honored singer Patti LaBelle with her very own street earlier this week. Unfortunately, the signs didn't get her name right.

6 years ago

A pedestrian threads his way through snarled traffic at Broad and Chestnut streets. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
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PlanPhilly

Report: Congestion costs Philly $152 million a year

SEPTA makes “the economic case” for fighting congestion with increased parking enforcement and other measures.

6 years ago

A police officer stands by a sheet covering the remains of a young child and a baby stroller at the scene of a fatal accident on Roosevelt Boulevard in the Olney section of Philadelphia on Tuesday July 16, 2013. (Joseph Kaczmarek/AP Photo)
PlanPhilly
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PlanPhilly

City: Roosevelt Boulevard speed cameras to be live by end of year

The speed cameras are coming to a 12-mile stretch of Roosevelt between 9th Street and the Bucks County boundary line — a section of road that ranks as the city’s deadliest.

6 years ago

Trucks and cars move through a Pennsylvania Turnpike toll plaza in Carlisle, Pa
Courts & Law

Bucks, Montco are ground zero for turnpike toll-dodgers

Drivers in Bucks and Montgomery counties account for $2 million in unpaid Pa. Turnpike tolls. The most egregious scofflaws could face criminal charges.

6 years ago

A sinkhole in Baltimore Avenue at 43rd Street was caused by a faulty sewer pipe. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Massive sinkhole will disrupt Baltimore Ave. traffic another 3 weeks

City workers repairing a 400-square-foot cavern just below the asphalt on Baltimore Avenue at 43rd Street will need three more weeks to get the job done.

6 years ago

The city's street sweeping pilot in June 2019. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

$2.73 million later, Philly realizes street sweepers are too wide for city’s narrow blocks

Philly’s street sweeping experiment has hit a sizable snag — a nine-foot-wide snag, to be exact.

6 years ago

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The Walnut Street ramp onto I-76 will be closed for 25 days. (Google Maps)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Everything you need to know about the I-76 detours in Center City

PennDOT will close off several lanes of the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76) and a busy on-ramp in Center City on May 20.

6 years ago

Filbert Street will soon have the potential to transform into a pedestrian plaza.
Filbert Street will soon have the potential to transform into a pedestrian plaza. (Bellevue Communications)
Community
Billy Penn

A $1M pedestrian plaza is coming to Reading Terminal Market

Filbert Street outside Reading Terminal Market will become Philly’s first roadway designed to transform from vehicle pathway to pedestrian plaza, officials announced Thursday.

6 years ago

A road crew paves 5th Street in Philadelphia, Pa. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Want to know when the city is filling that pothole? There’s an app for that.

More than 95 miles of city streets are expected to be paved by the end of 2019. Find out if your commute is due to get smoother.

6 years ago

(Richard Vogel/AP Photo)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Striking in the gig economy

On Wednesday, Uber drivers across the country walked out in a strike, demanding better pay, more stable hours, and fairer treatment from the company.

6 years ago

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A residential parking permit on the back of a car
Politics & Policy

Philly Councilman wants city to reclaim control of street parking

Unfortunately for critics of the Philadelphia Parking Authority, City Hall still doesn’t have the power to wrest control of on-street parking from the state-run agency.

6 years ago

A group of boys play a game of basketball at Vogt park in Mayfair on Saturday, April 6, 2019. (Kriston Jae Bethel for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Critiquing Kenney: Mayfair residents see neighborhood changes, with City Hall in the backseat

As the Mayfair section of Philadelphia becomes more diverse, residents are united in their hopes for a way of relieving the traffic congestion.

6 years ago

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