Boundaries. The northern boundary, Spring Garden to ridge, ridge to girard, girard to the schuylkill river. The southern boundary, south street, river, to river. The eastbound boundary, Delaware Avenue from south street to Spring Garden street. The western boundary runs along the edge of the schuylkill river, cuts up kelly drive, stopping just below the girard avenue bridge. Reporter there are also restrictions west of the schuylkill river, in university city, extending up around 38th street. Because of an expected million and a half people, who will to have walk to papal events, and some streets, available for emergency authorized vehicles only, inside the box, traffic will be permsible but extremely difficult. Penndot secretary Leslie Richard also outlined that the closures of portions of i76, the vine street expressway, and route one in the area of Saint Charles seminary. I76 eastbound from i4476, the blue route to i95, i76 westbound from i95 to u. S. Route one. The roosevelt extens
The restriction goes into effect, you can come back in by foot but you cannot bring your car with you. The Northern Boundary Spring Garden to ridge, ridge to girard, and girard to the Schuylkill River. The southern boundary, south street river to river. The eastbound dry, Delaware Avenue from south street, to Spring Garden street. The western boundary runs along the edge of the Schuylkill River cuts up kelly drive stopping just below girard avenue bridge. Reporter pope francis is in philadelphia, not as a head of the state but as a pastor, wanting to meet the expected million and a half people, who will make their way here primarily on thousands of registered buses. Leaders emphasized each bus must be registered. Added to Philadelphia Police will be Pennsylvania State police. The state police will provide a little over a thousand state troopers, to primarily assist, with both crowd management in center city and Traffic Control in the surrounding highways. Reporter i95 will be opened bu
Steps being taken for the upcoming papal visit. Tonight we know major highways and the ben franklin bridge will close to traffic during this historic event. If youre coming to the city for the papal weekend pack your walking shoes. Good evening im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. Today city leaders reveal the security perimeter for philadelphia while the pope is in town. Eyewitness News Reporter Charlotte Huffman is live in center city to break it all down. Charlotte . Jessica and ukee, estimated 1. 5 Million People are expected to descend on the city and fill this parkway eventually later in september. And with it, theyre createing logistical problems for all of the businesses trying to serve all those people. Weve been discussing it every day and trying to figure out whats going to happen. What it will look like. Well be told are they going to tell us soon. Sent city owner Restaurant Owners have more questions than answers about pope francis visit. Philadelphia could set itself apar
Down. Charlotte . Jessica and ukee, estimated 1. 5 Million People are expected to descend on the city and fill this parkway eventually later in september. And with it, theyre createing logistical problems for all of the businesses trying to serve all those people. Weve been discussing it every day and trying to figure out whats going to happen. What it will look like. Well be told are they going to tell us soon. Sent city owner Restaurant Owners have more questions than answers about pope francis visit. Philadelphia could set itself apart as the largest in the history of the world meeting of families. Reporter handle influx of estimate 1. 5 Million People mayor nutter laid out the framework for road closures today. Parts of 76, 676 and route 1 will shut down. I95 will remain open with some ramp closures. Ben franklin bridge will shut down and in center city walking or biking is about all youll be able to do. Spring garden to ridge ridge to girard. No vehicles will be allowed to enter t
Ballgame in the afternoon how will it look for that. Not bad at all guys. We can expect to see another dry day. We might see green yet concerned about that and that is fair, i get it. When you see green on the radar you think is there rain copping because that is what you are looking for . But remember radar can pick up on things that are not there. Sometimes we will get the ground clutter effect. We will start off by going outside. We will take you first and information mess to a new camera shot a little idea what we are looking at here, a new shot, sky cam three we are facing east from our station headquarters in center city overlooking Spring Garden street facing east. This is a a nice shot as sun comes up but facing east on Spring Garden here and just quiet a as can be through center city. Here is the ground clutter. We have speckles showing up on the area radar but not precipitation. We will see there is nothing more than a few high clouds out there it is quiet tranquil, wind is l