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
To effectively move emergency vehicles as well as a large number of buses that are expected. Lets talk about bridges, the ben franklin bridge is going to be shut down from new jersey into philadelphia. This is the first time officials have confirmed that for us. This will allow people to literally from new jersey walk across the bridge on the road into center city to see the pope, and lets hear from the drpa from a few minutes ago. The bridge will be closed to all vehicles except for emergency vehicles. And we will use it to allow pedestrians to cross into philadelphia from new jersey and back. Real quick, the walt whitman bridge will remain open. That will allow people to get from 95 into new jersey and back. As for when this all gets back to normal back to open again. It could take until monday by noontime. Live at city hall Randy Gyllenhaal nbc10. Our Team Coverage continues now with nbc10s george spencer. A lot of the popes events are in center city philadelphia. The street closure
As the day goes on we will see more cloud cover and that is going to lead to some showers. The first showers could be moving into parts of the area tonight. The hourbyhour future cast show you when the showers will arrive in your area when i come back in ten minutes. Right now take a look at the roads with Jessica Boyington in the first alert traffic center. We are on the schuylkill expressway right now. We are doing great in terms of the drive times around montgomery drive. Whether youre heading westbound or eastbound you can see its a tie right there. 11 minutes from the vine street expressway up towards the blue route so no real problems there. Ongoing construction not tying things up. The blue route here. 14 15 minutes at the most southbound from the schuylkill expressway up towards 95. Mass transit no problems currently delays this morning. A Beautiful Day to come especially right now not dealing with any Philadelphia International airport delays. Coming up we will check in with m
One company is hiring dozens of new Security Guards for the popes visit to philadelphia, but we begin this news with developing news, the search resumes this morning for a missing boy in delaware county. 11yearold lakwan lattimore has been missing since monand now the police and fbi are working to track him down. Chad pradelli spoke to the family and he joins us live with an update on the search. Reporter sara the search for lakwan lattimore was called off overnight and resumed at 8 00 this morning, you can see the command post set up behind me. The boy family lives in this immediate area and i spoke to them a short time ago, and as each hour passes and his whereabouts are unknown fear and worry builds. Please help us please come home. Cousin and Guardian Thompson is making a plea. He was last seen dropping off potato chips to his little sister. I dont allow him to stay out. Not at anybodys house. They got on bikes and take off to different parts of neighborhood. The sense of urgency g
Shutting down. It is wednesday night and the big story on action news tonight is the plan to turn whole neighborhood and major highways into traffic free zones. Mayor Michael Nutter put it this way. Be prepared to walk, at least a few miles or more depending on where you are and where you are trying to go. Private vehicles will really not be a viable option on the weekend in center city. And heres why everything highlighted on this map will be what the city is calling a traffic box. Residents will be able to drive within the border but once you leave you cannot come back. Septa buses and trolleys will not be operating inside. This all goes into effect friday september 25th at 6 00 p. M. The Northern Boundary starts at Delaware Avenue along Spring Garden up ridge to girard. South street is cut off line on the south end. Then at 10 00 p. M. That night restrictions take effect in portions of University City and west philadelphia. That is from powellton avenue to the north between 32nd and