The US Spends More Time and Money Building Transit Than Most Countries. Inefficient Community Engagement May Help Explain Why. Public participation remains essential, and policymakers can take steps to ensure engagement processes reflect the entire community’s needs without increasin…

All of these could be applied to the Route for Change project.

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The debris piling up on SEPTA Metro tracks could soon be a thing of the past. SEPTA's latest budget includes funding for new vacuum trains designed to keep stations clean and trains running smoothly.

Transit advocates in the Northeast favored the Roosevelt Boulevard alignment (photo 2), which would serve the community's center.

City planners preferred the Northeast Expressway alignment because it was tens of millions of dollars cheaper.

This is the final design for the Northeast Expressway, which would have featured brutalist-style stations in its median.

Absolutely 1000% agreed!

2nd Street Station’s entrance renovations alongside the Road Diet on Market Street look fantastic!

Here’s hoping the interior of 2nd Street gets a full renovation in the near future as well.

Connecting the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway to the Broad Street Line will involve underpinning the existing structure to reach the express tracks.

We dug up South Broad, we will dig up Roosevelt Blvd! Build the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway!

We all want to see City Hall Station renovated, but in order for that to happen, the Reverse Signals Project must come first.

During each construction phase of the City Hall Station Reconstruction Project, one platform will be closed while the other remains operational.

This is great news for the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway. Replacement cars for the Broad Street Line likely won't arrive until the late 2030s, which means that when the Roosevelt Blvd Subway is approved, 110 additional cars can be added to that order.

New Photo of M5's from FY 2027 Proposed Budget.

A plan from 1954 to extend the L to Lower Bucks and the BSL to the Stadiums. Also, do these municipalities actually have sewage connections to Philadelphia today?

Be Bold Philadelphia!

Wait? How?!

Visitors heading to Independence Hall will disembark at 5th Street Station.

The station received a $20 million improvement project. Originally built in 1908, the station had not seen a major upgrade since 1976, when it was renovated to mark the nation's bicentennial.

Station improvements and ADA compliance.

Improving safety on Philadelphia’s roads is just as important as preventing violent crime in its streets | Editorial Despite the promise of successive administrations to eliminate traffic deaths, the toll remains stubbornly high.

Castor Ave is back in the news, and fortunately local policymakers are prioritizing traffic safety.

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34th Street Station ADA Improvements continue!

A colorful look at the canceled Northeast Expressway. Every station within the Expressway included a park and ride for the Northeast Line. Also, what's more NE Philly than Trackless Trolleys!

Here are renderings of the improved Spring Garden station! Expanded north-side station headhouse in the style of CTA
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Very very cool!

When I-95 is rebuilt through Northern Liberties, the Spring Garden station will be fully renovated and made ADA-compliant.

It will be a mix of elevated and subway.

Enhanced image of the 1920s Roosevelt Boulevard Line as it would have appeared. This line was envisioned as a fully elevated extension utilizing the junction north of the local tracks at Erie Station.

Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA).

The Locust Street Subway was designed to extend west, but it currently ends at 18th Street, adjacent to Rittenhouse Square.

The biggest stumbling block to extending PATCO west is not tunneling beneath the Schuylkill River; it is finding a way to cross Rittenhouse Square.

Watching Seattle open a new line and realizing we haven't opened a new subway station in Philadelphia since the 1970s. We will do better.

The 30th Street Station stop on the L and Trolleys, abandoned since the early 1930s, saw construction resume in 1949 before finally opening in 1955.

SEPTA Police are present across the SEPTA Metro system!

SEPTA Police are present across the SEPTA Metro system!