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Philadelphia needs to manage the return of the car as the pandemic subsides

Philadelphia needs to manage the return of the car as the pandemic subsides Inga Saffron, The Philadelphia Inquirer © YONG KIM/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS An in-line skater tries out the newly paved recreation path along Martin Luther King Drive. The Schuylkill Expressway runs parallel to the drive. The pandemic has been terrible in a hundred ways but wonderful in one particular instance: It allowed us to experience a Philadelphia nearly empty of cars. Without the noise and exhaust of daily traffic in the first months of the lockdown, birdsong became the score of city life, and the air took on a country freshness. Center City’s streets turned into jogging courses, cyclists sped across town without fear of being sideswiped, and full-service restaurants sprouted from empty parking spaces.

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FYI about GSI: The Recipe for Green Stormwater Infrastructure Success

FYI about GSI: The Recipe for Green Stormwater Infrastructure Success New research highlights some of the ways planners can increase the social benefits and public acceptance of green stormwater infrastructure. Share Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) has become an increasingly common way for cities to rely less on traditional gray infrastructure such as curbs, gutters, and drains to mitigate flooding and stormwater runoff. GSI is especially useful in legacy cities, usually older and often shrinking in population, with combined sewer systems (CSS) that manage both stormwater and sewage and are easily overburdened during heavy rainfall, forcing polluted waters to divert into nearby waterways.

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Philadelphia Transit Plan provides blueprint for 2045 — WHYY

Philadelphia Transit Plan provides blueprint for 2045 — WHYY
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SEPTA, DVRPC to study Regional Rail fare equity

WHYY By A train pulling into 30th Street Station. (Emma Lee/WHYY) SEPTA made a push in 2020 to make transit more equitable and now Regional Rail may get the same treatment. The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) approved a plan Thursday to spend $100,000 on an analysis of the commuter rail system looking at ways to make the system work better and cost less for Philadelphia riders. The approval to study Regional Rail comes more than a month after SEPTA awarded Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates a $3 million contract to oversee a redesign of its bus network, amid a financial crisis that has made adapting to changing needs and serving new riders essential to the survival of the system.

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