Update this, this is a yearly or every other year . Its usually every two years. Er really that was my only question, it was a very interesting reading and it was a great wrap up so i will make a motion to approve . Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. The ayes have it. Mr. Chairman item 12 on your agenda amends the transportation Code Division ii, section 601 to extend the transit only area on Market Street from 8th street to 3rd street westbound and from 5th street to 3rd street eastbound and approves various traffic and parking modifications to implement the safer Market Street project, i will not read all of the traffic modifications. Mr. Mcguire, are you going to present . Okay thank you. Good afternoon again director im joined with marie hunter from our staff, im excited to be here to talk to you today about a great opportunity to support vision 0 and to support the safer Market Street project. The top priority of our agency and of the sustainable Streets Division is Public Safety
Were following the construction on north side near broad street. We have police at the scene. You do have lane restrictions. One lane of traffic is getting by. Its still too early so were not seeing delays. Were following a fire on Clifton Heights and you can take East Providence road if you need to get around it. And we still have this accident in north philadelphia, broad street between tioga and venango street. You can take old york road as your alternate. A driver is in the hospital after police say he crashed his car into an ambulance. Nbc10s katy zachry live on the scene. Katy, whats happening now . Reporter hi, chris, take a look behind me. Were at the intersection of broad street and tioga. You can see the tow truck driver is getting rid of debris behind the ambulance that was involved in the crash. The ambulance, im told, in a few minutes, is going to be towed from the scene. You can see the black sedan that has significant front end damage. New information i got is that the d
Telaviv, israel at least for the next 24 hours. We just spoke with a couple of those passengers minutes ago. The impact here one inbound, one outbound flight here at Philadelphia International airport. Tonight u. S. Airways flight 796 from philadelphia to telaviv has canceled. A flight that was due to take off about 9 00 oclock tonight and inbound flight 7977 scheduled to arrive tomorrow morning at 5 20 also canceled. Delta airlines, United Airlines also saying earlier its suspending its service indefinitely. Now, all of this coming just hours after a rocket landed its about a mile away from international airport. Ive flown into telaviv myself. It is only about 50 miles from the gaza strip. Well within range of rockets fired from militant group hamas. More than 2,000 rockets have been fired at israel in recent weeks. Faa makes these decisions when they feel its warranted again for the safety of United States citizens. And they in response to the recent attack at ben good recent airport
Allegheny avenues. Eyewitness News Reporter Elizabeth Hur is live with more on what drivers can expect. Liz . Reporter chris, what drivers can expect is basically what you see behind me here. Overnight lane closures with cones up and then crews off to the side busy at work. Now, we are told Officials Say these crews will be at work during the week from 10 00 a. M. To 5 00 a. M. A familiar sight for commuters construction work along i95 will be extended starting wednesday night. Now to include the stretch between the girard avenue and allegheny interchanges. This Officials Say is part four of sick phases. The ultimate goal here to reconstruct and improve 3 miles of i95 and in the end the corridor will be widened to four travel lanes in both directions. So for now the changes you will notice immediately Officials Say will be the repainting the lanes and shifting of the traffic pattern. The work will be done overnight but for some commuters, they believe the added confusion will only mean
Just outlying ought of those charges against kevin roper but it was an opportunity for him for his lawyer to dress those accusations that he had no business behind the wheel saturday morning. If kevin roper was ever looking for 152nd of fame, this wasnt it. Ropers accused of being sleep deprived when he crashed a walmart tractor trailer in the limo bus in the new jersey turnpike saturday carrying Tracie Morgan critically injured. One of his fellow comedians james mcnair was kill and several others were injured. Roper faced arraignment in criminal court. Roper is being charged with vehicular homicide for death of mcnair, assault by auto for others who were injured. Under new jersey law a driver can be convicted if there is proof he has been without sleep for 24 hours when the accident occurred. Ropers Attorney Says he didnt commit the crimes. Authority say roper failed to slow for traffic and tried to swerve at the last minute to avoid a crash. Instead the rig slammed in the back of the