thus passes the city of brotherly love
I was out of town on business these last two weeks, and plenty has been going down in my absence which I’ll be playing catch-up on, but the really big news is SEPTA’s announcement that it will be closing the Bridgeport Viaduct next summer due to deteriorating safety conditions. The Bridgeport Viaduct is the Norristown …
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There is a part of me that wishes that the sentence that makes up the subject line of this post wasn’t true, but in many ways it is objective reality. Because people prefer to ride trains over buses, as an almost universally revealed sentiment. Of course, people still ride buses, even when given a direct …
I live at approximately Ground Zero of one of the most vitriolic debates over urban gentrification in America: Point Breeze, Philadelphia. I hope to not write very much about it here, because I want this to be a blog primarily focussed on transportation. But of course, transportation and land use are two sides of the …
Continue reading “A Brief Aside: the Kenyatta Johnson Land Grab Bill”
Philadelphia is by no means the perfect urban form, and it has a lot of political handicaps to overcome, some self-inflicted and some imposed from outside. But it has a lot going for it, and a lot of that includes legacy infrastructure from the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroads, and the PRT/PTC and Red Arrow Lines. …
I grew up in the Cincinnati suburbs. I first moved to the Philadelphia area in 2000 to attend Swarthmore College, and I immediately fell in love with this city. I’ve lived nine of the last twelve years in Swarthmore, University City, Roxborough, and Point Breeze/Newbold, and have accumulated some opinions in that time as a …
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