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Streets & Roads

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

8 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)
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Urban Planning
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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.

8 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)
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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

8 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.

8 years ago

The former Gallery Mall parking garage has been transformed into the Parkade at 8th. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Politics & Policy
PlanPhilly

Parking Authority chief Petri offers up a sweeping legislative agenda for change

For most of the Parking Authority’s history, its legislative agenda was little more than maintaining the status quo.

8 years ago

Listen 3:06
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Urban Planning

Floating a solution to Philadelphia’s parking-space quandary

8 years ago

Kelli McIntyre and Andy Trackman check out walking conditions along Germantown Avenue during a FeetFirstPhilly walk audit. (Meir Rinde/PlanPhilly)
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What a walk along Germantown Avenue reveals: Tough going for pedestrians

Kelli McIntyre stood in light rain on Germantown Avenue, holding a clipboard and watching as car after car ignored a “Do Not Enter” sign

8 years ago

City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart announces an audit of the PPA as Pa. Auditor General Eugene DePasquale looks on
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Politics & Policy

City Controller takes aim at Parking Authority’s spending

City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart announced her office would audit the Philadelphia Parking Authority’s on-street parking enforcement expenses

8 years ago

Listen 2:01
Dena Driscoll and her children try to navigate their way to summer camp, blocked by sidewalk parking at 12th Street and Washington Avenue.
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Our Morning Commute: Multimodal living with kids in Philadelphia

For the last seven years, my children and I have primarily moved around Philadelphia by bike, foot, and public transportation

8 years ago

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