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
Slight hint of low lying included cover as we tend to see but right around this time of the year it picks up a little bit here over pennsylvania farmland. 55 degrees with that west northwest wind flow. The not very windy. That is allowing low lying included cover to form but it really is a crisp comfortable morning across the region. Storm scan is quiet as can be. We mentioned there is a disturbance. We will call it a storm system that is head willing our way. So by tonight the clouds in the only rebuild but the pockets of the rain start to move in. The thing is, this is a system that will be splitting the region in two. Further south, we have to deal with the rain and further north we will go, we will not have much impact at all. We will break those details down as show progresses but walking through your day planner, it is a nice day more sun then anything but clouds do start to build but we will keep you dry through whole day. Not until later tonight that anybody has to worry about
Boxes and the schuylkill expressway i76 is closed eastbound the blue route to i95, be westbound 76 will be closed from i95 to route 1, the vine expressway, 676 will be closed in both directions riff to river and the ben franklin bridge is closed until noon monday. And in addition route 1 is closed from belmont avenue to ridge avenue because the pope is staying at the seminary in that area. As for the boxes, bicycles and pedestrians, will be able to move around in the boxes but its not clear yet if there will be taxi Service Within the boxes, that has not been decided yet, only one bright spot, i95 will not be closed despite speculation that it would. Sharrie . Im sure drivers can take any bright spot. Lets switch now to action news reporter, Annie Mccormick live on the steps of art museum for reaction to these closures. Reporter the art museum is probably the neighborhood that will have the best view when the pope is here in town the mayor said we are opening the city to the world and
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
Center city philadelphia is a busy place, with lots of traffic but for two full days and parts of the two others in late september, that is going to change. Pope francis is coming to town, and major arteries, are 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. S