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Streets & Roads

A city street sweeper cleans Chester Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia on Jan. 3, 2019. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Why
Urban Planning

Why some Philadelphians are paying for dirty streets

Why is the Philadelphia Parking Authority ticketing cars for blocking street sweepers — on streets the city doesn’t actually sweep 75 percent of the time?

Air Date: January 16, 2019

Listen 14:54
Cyclists cross the South St. Bridge as they ride towards Center City on Bike to Work Day. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY, file)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Safer streets within reach in 2019

Randy LoBasso, policy manager at the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, looks forward to 2019 with hope for the safety of Philly streets.

7 years ago

Family members react at the scene of the fatal 2013 collision that took the life of Samara Banks and her three children.  (JOSEPH KACZMAREK/AP)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Philly’s most dangerous roads clustered in black and brown neighborhoods

46 percent of Philly's most dangerous roads are in poor areas mostly populated by people of color, according to an analysis of city crash data done by the Bicycle Coalition.

7 years ago

A deer carcass on the side of Interstate 95 in Pa. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Why is this deer still here? And other things on I-95

Whose job is it clean up public roads in Philadelphia?

7 years ago

Plans for a new waterfront park over I-95 at Penn's Landing (Courtesy of  Hargreaves Associates & redsquare)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

From trucks to trails, Philly’s new $181 million bond will pay for improvements citywide

A new dock for dragon boats, HVAC systems for the city’s homeless shelters, and a cap for I-95 along Penn’s Landing are among the capital projects.

7 years ago

Ontario and C streets is rated a “3” on Philadelphia’s Litter Index. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Trash talk: Bigger fines, free neighborhood cans in Philly

Residents are tired of construction companies — or their neighbors — dumping debris in vacant lots and public parks.

7 years ago

A view of the skyline from University City
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

Good news and the bad in Philadelphia’s transportation plan

Philadelphia deserves a serious transportation agenda.

7 years ago

Lisa Strickland and her mother Ann say they love their Eastwick neighborhood. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Mapping Philly’s most walkable neighborhoods

Ann Strickland, 87, has lived in the southwest corner of Eastwick for 37 years.

7 years ago

Traffic on Washington Avenue at 9th Street in South Philadelphia
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Killing SEPTA transfer fees, charging for parking differently — it’s all in Philly’s new transportation plan

The City of Philadelphia released what may be its most ambitious and concretely detailed transportation plan yet on Wednesday.

7 years ago

Listen 1:25
Shake Shack bought and installed a bike corral for its Center City location. (PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

City seeks to stop cars from parking illegally in front of fire hydrants by parking bikes there instead

The $7,500 grant from Philadelphia’s Innovation Fund will help develop a prototype bike corral

7 years ago

(Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philadelphia officials promise crackdown on Center City traffic scofflaws

Added enforcement of traffic laws will focus on Market and Chestnut streets.

7 years ago

Workers set up up for the NFL Kickoff Experience at Penn's Landing, leading into the Eagles' home opener Thursday. (Sara Hoover for WHYY)
Community

Philly hosts 2018 NFL Kickoff Experience at Penn’s Landing Thursday

The daylong festival leads up to the regular season opener when the Eagles take on the Atlanta Falcons at Lincoln Financial Field.

7 years ago

Protesters demanding protected bike lanes form a human barrier on Nov. 28, stretching for two blocks along Spruce Street near 11th Street, where a cyclist was killed by a garbage truck the previous morning. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Volunteers count vehicles in the bike lanes as upgrade work on Pine and Spruce is delayed

The bike lanes on Pine and Spruce streets are Philly’s versions of the watched pot that never boils.

7 years ago

Customers often park in the bike lane while they run into the Wawa on 22nd Street, which opened a few months ago. (Jim Saksa/WHYY News)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Frustrated by Philly politicians’ failure to upgrade bike lanes, cyclists turn to the courts

For years now, bike-safety advocates have pressed Philadelphia’s elected officials to build more bike lanes and protect them with physical barrierrs

7 years ago

Listen 2:36
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.

7 years ago

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