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As Philadelphia advances streetscape plan for Spring Garden, historic buildings fall to neglect Inga Saffron, The Philadelphia Inquirer © TIM TAI/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Spring Garden is one of several dreary, overly wide crosstown streets in Philadelphia that need improvement. What if Spring Garden Street actually lived up to its name? Instead of an 80-foot-wide expanse that cuts a dreary and dangerous furrow across Philadelphia’s midsection, what if there were sidewalks edged with rain gardens, tree-shaded bike lanes, and planted medians? What if the vehicular mosh pits at the Broad and Ridge intersections were reorganized into orderly crossings? What if neglected touchstones from the city’s past, like the Reading Railroad station and the Church of the Assumption, were repaired and reoccupied?

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