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At the angel bike memorial for Dr. Barbara Friedes on Spruce st.
A driver in a U-haul parked in the bike lane right behind it.
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This is the way to safer, cleaner, greener city. Nothing else is as effective or cheap.
@PhillyMayor
@phlbikeaction
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Gotta love going for a ride in Fairmount Park on a beautiful Saturday with a protected bike lane...
@PhilaParking
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Unbelievable. 76 West over an HOUR delay due to construction only 1 Lane at Montgomery Drive. It’s 915pm. Wonder why no one comes into the city for dinner anymore??
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21st and Spruce. I guess the building should have been wearing high-vis, right
@PennDOTNews
?
This is in the heart of Philly on one of the busiest bike lanes in the city.
Paint and plastic is not infrastructure.
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Miracles DO happen!
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Look who Is out on the Girard ave Bridge. Isn't she beautiful?
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Look at what Penndot has done to Philly. We are spending 160 million dollars to partially correct this enormous mistake.
We can't let them expand I-95.
We head to Vine St. where the Chinatown Stitch has big plans to reconnect the neighborhood above 676. This cap will add green space to an area that sorely needs it, while also making Vine St. safer for pedestrians. This won't get started for several years still.
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This is Frankford and Allegheny where Christopher Cabrera was killed.
ALL our communities need concrete protection, not just the leafy, touristic, rich ones.
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My friend got hit by a car turning right on red at Pennsylvania and Fairmount Aves. She'll be ok, but this violence is normalized on the streets of Philly. No turn on red should be city wide, and Penn. Ave needs traffic calming NOW.
@PhillyOTIS
@PhilaStreets
@bcgp
@CMThomasPHL
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This type of traffic violence is normalized in Philly. Speeding off to avoid accountability.
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Forget school streets, Philadelphia school district is once again encouraging parents to drive this year with 3,000 dollar subsidy
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This a bigger emergency than i-95. We should expect the same level of urgency from
@GovernorShapiro
#BREAKING
:
@SEPTA
plans to eliminate fare discounts for bus, subway and trolley rides and raise many regional rail fares to address its budget deficit. Hear the story this morning on
@KYWNewsradio
.
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I just want to reiterate this publicly, if/when I get killed by a car on the streets of Philadelphia I want my bloody corpse thrown on the steps of city hall. I want these fucking pols to have to step over it as they continue to ignore the problem.
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"We have tried nothing and are all out of ideas." 🤷♂️
Did Mayor Parker’s plan to clean every block work? Take a before and after look.
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Eagles fans, welcome to
@TheWarOnCars
AJ Brown was almost taken out by a vehicle on his bike ride this morning while participating in the Eagles Autism Challenge race, via his IG Live. 😬
He seems to fully okay, just a close call.
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I would like to personally thank
@PhillyOTIS
for moving the intercity bus "station" to the bike lane on Spring Garden.
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Right now Penndot plans include:
Widening i95 in South Philly
Adding "flex lanes" on i76
Widening roads in Cheltenham
While SEPTA is falling off a fiscal cliff.
Time for the governor to flex some highway funding.
I don't understand why we need endless public hearings for things like SEPTA bus revolution but PennDOT can swoop in and wreck neighborhoods to widen I-95 so people can drive from Bucks to Delco. Once again PennDOT claims more lanes don't increase traffic!
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SUV speeding over 50mph along MLK drive at 6 pm on Sunday.
MLK is "closed" to vehicular traffic on weekends.
Except the gate at Montgomery drive is open and unmanned.
Thanks
@PhilaStreets
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Montreal is what Philly could be if it wasn't run by corrupt idiots.
Montreal’s bike share system (BIXI) hit an all-time record of 75,626 trips yesterday.
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God, the commerce on public spaces really ruins Utrecht.
Thank God we don't allow it along the Schuylkill banks.
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Just missed a train from Amsterdam to Utrecht (30 miles) by secs at 7:30 pm. Next train in 12 minutes. If only getting from CC to Manayunk were this easy.
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This is an absolute travesty and representatives at city Hall, Harrisburg, and Washington need to hear it.
Maybe you thought US learned its lesson about ramming highways thru cities. Maybe you thought we were starting to get serious about climate change. Then you haven’t looked at PennDot’s study for rebuilding I-95 in Philly. I did & here’s my column:
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11 pm on a Sunday night in Paris...
Does any street in philly have this much life even on a Saturday at that hour?
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South Street merchants, east Passyunk, Frankford Ave, Girard Ave, Samson St, Baltimore Ave...
Why are you not screaming for this in Philly every weekend in the summer?
Every restaurant, coffee shop, market, etc was bursting with customers. Bikes are good for business, for community, for physical and mental health, for the planet. ❤️
@CicLAvia
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This (a rendering for the future of Callowhill st) is an absolute abomination in the heart of philadelphia.
Who would want to live next to this car sewer?
Philly leaders and planners should be taking action to have this neighborhood develop as a pedestrian-friendly connector between Old City and Northern Liberties.
The whole city will benefit with more contiguous healthy neighborhoods.
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Which vision of Philadelphia do you prefer? Streets people or streets for cars?
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Can
@PennDOTNews
please admit that the pilot of changing the speed limit w/o any enforcement or infrastructure changes is an absolute failure. How many more people need to be maimed or die?
#BREAKING
: Kelly Drive in Philadelphia is shut down in both directions Thursday evening after a fatal crash, police tell CBS News Philadelphia.
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@eve_215
A) the car is literally blocking the bike lane.
B) bikes have the right to use the travel lane.
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@RepBenWaxman
Thank you for referring to it as a crash not an accident. But it is not a "bike" crash. Dr. Friedes did not crash into anything. She was run down by one of the many out of control drivers on the streets of Philadelphia. It was a "car crash" and it was murder.
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Went to Monday night Phils game. Big win, nice night.
The experience of driving to the game (with suburban parents) was absolutely terrible. Who Is fighting to maintain this csr-centric hellscape? Even for the suburbanites it purportedly servers, it leaves them irritable.
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My friend was hit by a driver turning right on red in Philly. Most cars don't even bother stopping.
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This is blood curdling.
Speed cameras and traffic stops and speed limit signs wouldn't have prevented this woman's death. The city of Philadelphia and PennDOT need to take traffic safety seriously and install speed bumps and other physical infrastructure designed to slow traffic and protect bike lanes
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This is an abomination. Philly can't grow without SEPTA.
Not enough people are talking about the fact that ALL of South Philadelphia will lose our Subway line if we don’t get state funding for
@SEPTAPHILLY
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@Bob_Wachter
Not only confusing,
@CDCgov
recs are weaponized against workers, forcing them back to work (and to infect more)
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So a driver drove off the road, across grass, across the most popular path in the area and into the river.
Why is this even possible? Concete now!
Crews have spent hours searching for a driver after a car was seen going into Philly's Schuylkill River Friday morning.
@Siobhan_McGirl
has
#breaking
details from the scene.
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This is the "protected" bike lane on Parkside at Belmont Ave. Cars enter at the intersection and drive at cyclists.
We need center-lane bollards or posts to keep cars out.
@bcgp
@phlbikeaction
@PhilaStreets
@PhillyOTIS
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Fake, hidden, defaced and removed plates are a scourge on the city and cars should be immediately impounded. It's not just traffic violence but also gun violence.
At least seven people were shot at a SEPTA bus stop in Philadelphia’s Burholme neighborhood.
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Penndot is a highway building company. That needs to change.
The best way to transport people into and out of cities will never be with cars.
Scrolling through PennDOT’s proposal for rebuilding I-95 in S. Philly is like entering a time warp. Climate change doesn’t exist, neighborhoods don’t matter and transit alternatives aren’t even considered. My column offers a better approach.
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Is it carceralist to argue that people who do this should lose their right to drive forever? 100mph. Drunk. at 8 a.m.
Could you imagine the kind of father that raises criminal children like this? Couldn't be me, because my name isn't Mark Fusetti.
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Look
@PhillyOTIS
@PhilaStreets
They are called bollards. They are not plastic, and they actually protect us.
When on Kelly Drive?
Here it is: protection of Chicago’s Lakefront Trail users from confused motorists at Belmont Avenue. 👍
@WorldBollard
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@ASlavitt
Nytimes front page today was the first time I felt the weight of this in a real way.
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Sounds like the PPD are stretched too thin right now.
Maybe we can take things off their plate, like playing candy crush in their cruisers at Open Street events?
Philly police overtime is projected to hit around $103M by year's end, a big jump from $64M in 2021. OT has skyrocketed as the department has struggled to fill jobs
The city's entire Parks & Recreation budget is around $81M, for comparison
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They actually forbade carpooling.
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Cars don't shop, people do.
Why not make this permanent?
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Parker's "signature" achievement was subsidizing drivers to drive to an office that is... (checks notes) an 8 min walk from a PATCO station. 🙄
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Paris closed 205 streets in front of schools to cars so that students could safely get there.
Philly sends out a tweet telling students to "use safe bike routes" and "look both ways."
Back-to-school time is here! 🎒🚸 As students prepare to go back to school, ensuring their safety is the top priority for parents, teachers, and the
#CityOfPhiladelphia
. Here are some traveling safety tips to help everyone stay safe during their commute to and from school.
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Safe streets advocates have the attention of the Parker administration. We need to keep up the pressure.
Concrete protection on Spruce and Pine is a start but ALLEGHENY has to be included as well.
One Philly means ALL communities.
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Parkside "protected" bike lane. Long line of cars parked in the lane. Flex posts really doing the work!
@bcgp
@PhilaParking
@PhillyOTIS
@PhilaStreets
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@jen_keesmaat
I see bump outs and (beautiful) daylighting. Which are far more effective than paint.
As a person who commutes by bike, PAINT IS NOT INFRASTRUCTURE
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THIS 👇 is a quality of life issue.
It is anti-social behavior and should not be tolerated from anyone, let alone someone sworn to protect the public, let alone from someone working for the highest elected official in the city.
Dear
@PhillyMayor
, “safer” is not allowing your staff to illegally obscure their plate when the city is at record numbers of hit & runs and fatalities.
@DPearsonPHL
@tomfitzgerald
@placardabuse
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Callowhill and 5th. It is a highway here as drivers regularly go 50 mph. Construction Co forces cyclists into this dangerous traffic. Why is this allowed?
@PhilaStreets
@6abc
@bcgp
@PhillyMayor
@PhillyOTIS
@CMThomasPHL
@PhillyInquirer
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This is what "forgiving" infrastructure gives us.
Two days later and it is still blocking the crosswalk in front of a children's museum.
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Philly has horribly unsafe streets for anyone outside of cars, amazingly so give it's "good bones."
It needs to change now. Our newly elected mayor promised a "safer, cleaner, greener" city. We need to hold her to that promise.
Barbara Friedes was a beloved doctor and wife in Philadelphia who was cut down by a driver in a bike lane with insufficient protection. Activists want to make sure this never happens again:
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76, 95, 676, giant mistakes which ripped apart the fabric of our city.
Why are we doubling down on auto-centric planning when it simply doesn't serve our city?
In an opinion piece for the
@PhillyInquirer
, Vukan R. Vuchic of
@PennEngineers
argues that a proposed South Philadelphia sports complex is too car-centric.
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The utter refusal of Philly to put in steel or concrete bollards should be a legal liability for the city. Someone will die from this psycho behavior.
In this video taken by one of our members you can see a sedan mounting and driving down a sidewalk at full traffic speeds. In the same video you can see another vehicle parked in the grade-separated two-way bike lane
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When, philly?
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Big shocker here: car-brained mayor likes suburban sunbelt project designed for cars, 19 miles from downtown Atlanta.
V interesting that
@PhillyMayor
made a special trip to Atlanta to look at The Battery, the mixed use sports development that Comcast Spectacor used as a model for the Sports Complex redevelopment. Same architects,
@NelsonArchitect
.
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Gotta love top democratic officials retweeting vaguely xenophobic tropes that seem to imply that public transportation in Philly can't handle basketball arena crowds.
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Penndot is:
Lying about survey results
Expanding an urban highway
Increasing pollution in a residential neighborhood
Taking away ballfields and a beloved hockey rink
All in the name of "improving safety."
How will this actually make philadelphians safer?👇
.
@PennDOTNews
's stated "primary reason" for widening I-95 through South Philly is to "improve safety".
I analyzed 10 years of PennDOT's crash data and they are not being transparent at all with the public or elected officials.
A 🧵with a few observations:
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First Paris, now NYC...
When us Philly?
Kids deserve safe streets.
Where to pedestrianize streets first? Start with schools. Huge congrats to
@OpenPlans
and others for their work expanding School Streets in NY:
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This is the journalism we need.
Don't let Mayor DUI get away with platitudes and claiming credit for automated enforcement (which was Harrisburg), all while cutting vision zero funding.
On WHYY earlier today, Mayor Parker defended her record on traffic safety but would not specifically commit to a protected Spruce/Pine bike lane
Here are some more of her comments, and context about Vision Zero in Philadelphia:
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Safe streets advocates like to joke that the sure-fire way to kill someone and get away with it is to hit them with a car.
Evidently, Philadelphia judges feel the same. Incredible that the PPD and DA believed this was criminal, but not a judge.
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How can we have a hearing and article on climate goals and the city without once mentioning cars and traffic?
How does expanding 95 make us greener? How does refusing to properly fund SEPTA? How does putting in 800 new parking spots in FDR?
The city of Philadelphia has promised to zero out its climate pollution by 2050.
Some City Council members want to get there sooner.
@tough_schmidt_
explains ↓
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Driving in this city and area is absolutely insane.
Every sane DRIVER in the city should be pleading for traffic calming and actual enforcement.
A working mom and 10yo child killed last night. Actual consequences for speeding and road rage before a crash can happen prevents this
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Blew a flat at work so took SEPTA home. Trolley was beautiful. But connections and headways suck. 20 min bike commute becomes 1 hr 12 mins. Just laughably bad.
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Imagine how much better these shops would do if they allowed cars like South Street!
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This is an enormous scandal that our paper of record, politicians, and local activists are ignoring or minimizing.
.
@PennDOTSec
says PennDOT must spend billions to widen I-95 for safety. The reality is I-95 is already far safer than most Philly roads that receive a fraction of the funding.
Still no discussion of the health and economic impact on Philly.
Timestamp:
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To be clear: it is perfectly legal to "stop" there for up to 25 minutes. That law can't change soon enough.
Concrete Now
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Parkside "protected" bike lane 3 days later. Maybe time to switch to tickets rather than warnings?
@PhilaParking
@bcgp
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Why are we subsidizing drivers on the most popular nights?
This is asinine from an otherwise positive-thinking org.
Saturdays in the springtime shouldn't be stressful. Let us help you take the stress out of parking. Tonight and Every Saturday night in
@OldCityDistrict
, parking is only $8 after 5 p.m. under
@PHLVisitorCntr
! Details below: ⤵️
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Schuykill river trail by city ave at ten PM last night.
When we do get bollards to keep cars off the path?
It ain't a protected path if it's not PROTECTED
@PhillyOTIS
@PhilaStreets
@PhillyMayor
@NicORourkePHL
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This is absolutely horrific. SEPTA needs funding NOW.
@GovernorShapiro
needs to make this happen.
The Pa. Turnpike has helped keep public transit afloat for years. Now what? via
@phillyinquirer
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I commute past the sweetbriar cutoff every day, and there is absolutely no reason this couldn't be closed permanently. Drivers do not NEED a shortcut to avoid 76.
MLK Drive will remain closed to car traffic on Monday, Sept 4. Enjoy a car-free Labor Day on MLK Drive!
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Somehow
@penndot
doesn't have the funds to put in concrete bike lanes or safety improvements on state roads, but they are pushing through a highway expansion that NO ONE WANTS.
Sign our petition to Tell PennDOT: Don’t Widen I-95 in Center City & South Philly.
This project threatens the well-being of our neighborhoods by worsening air quality, increasing noise pollution, and harming our access to the waterfront. [2/2]
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Mayor slashes Vision Zero budget. Ok with more traffic deaths.
How high do we need to get before
@PhillyMayor
cares?
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Penn and Temple are truly dropping the ball here.
They need to be publicly shamed until they adopt it.
We're excited to announce
@BrynMawrCollege
as the second higher ed institution to participate in SEPTA Key Advantage UPass! Beginning 9/1 - more than 1,500 Bryn Mawr students will be eligible to ride
#SEPTA
– at no cost to them: !
#ISEPTAPHILLY
#waytogo
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Hey
@PhilaParking
this is earlier today on 13th street bike lane. How about walking the walk?
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It is a policy failure that any airline can make a profit off this route. It should be a slam dunk win for train travel.
Low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines is announcing new twice-daily service to from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, which will come as welcome news to those looking to avoid the ever increasing tolls on the PA Turnpike.
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A quick look 🧵at the state of the traffic safety infrastructure that was put in on South Concourse Dr in Fairmount park 2 yrs ago.
OTIS put in two roundabouts in the blue circles as well as signs and flex posts and a raised crosswalk.
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Let's go!
PPA is planning a crackdown on sidewalk parking and blocked curb ramps that make it hard for people with disabilities to get around via
@phillyinquirer
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@Nerd4Cities
In Philly, the concept has been around for decades: Reading Terminal Market. It's immensely popular, centrally located, for locals and tourists alike. Big thumbs up here.
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How many more,
@PhillyMayor
?
We need traffic safety now, and in ALL neighborhoods.
#BREAKING
: A one-year-old girl died and two women were injured after getting hit by a car while crossing the street in Philadelphia's Feltonville neighborhood Saturday night.
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This is the exact same thinking that gave us sidewalks as clear zones.
Protect negligent drivers at all costs. Better to hit squishy humans than hard concrete or steel.
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What is most amazing is how much fun and positivity there is. It's a party. Come join!
"On a typically quiet Sunday morning outside Tenth Presbyterian Church in Rittenhouse Square, a local group of bike safety advocates gathered for a protest party." Thank you
@_RosaCartagena
@PhillyInquirer
. Read more:
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Where is the outrage over these horrific plans to EXPAND I-95's footprint in Philadelphia?
We get ten years of b.s. hearings for Wash Ave, but the powers that be give this a free pass?
@IngaSaffron
@DPearsonPHL
@tomfitzgerald
@meirrinde
@SenatorSaval
@marksquilla
@RepFiedler
Appreciate
@RepFiedler
asking
@PennDOTSec
about I-95 widening in South Philly.
He concedes highways severing neighborhoods was not 'ideal policy' but also says his goal is to preserve "safe movement of traffic".
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It's SO. FUCKING. EASY.
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them.
Via
@StreetsblogUSA
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We should be tearing down urban highways not expanding them.
on PennDOT’s justifications for expanding the I-95, the pseudoscience of traffic modeling, and the history of the interstate
available to read on the same device you use to subtweet that councilperson & tell your mom you love her
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This is what Broad st looks like. Crossing it in daylight hours is scary.
Cameras are good, but Broad needs a road diet.
A 59-year-old woman was killed while walking across Broad after stopping at a convenience store.
North Broad is well known as a fatal and injurious road controlled by
@PennDOTNews
.
If they want to control Philly's major roads they need to make safety on those roads a priority.
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