The cover to the June 1932 PRT Route Guide issued by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company with a modernist view of PRT's elevated, streetcar/tram, bus, taxi & limo services against a soaring cityscape. It is by artist Geo. T. Lloyd. #transportation #philadelphia #1930s ↘️ flic.kr/p/2seBzUz

Basel's train station has a real time video of the tram station down a flight of stairs and outside.

Installation of Philly's first Zicla bus boarding island at 16th and JFK! Hope we get more throughout

The bridge, designed by the esteemed French-born Philadelphia architect Paul Philippe Cret, may have newfound importance, but a rescue isn’t on the way anytime soon.

CDOT lost the best of our team yesterday. We're heartbroken. In memory of Riley O'Neil, please refer to these bike racks as "Riley Racks". He led Chicago's bike parking program for several years. Our hearts are broken, but we want to make sure his legacy lives on 💙🚲 Please spread the word

Sad to see CBS3 stoop down to both sidesism on bike lanes, but lack of loading spaces has nothing to do with the bike lane! Only in Philly do we let drivers get away with usurping travel lanes for as long as they like

Our Working Families Party flagbearer seems to be going down the road of tech-friendly slopulism. Bizzaro Philadelphia

Chris Rabb putting out a cosponsorship memo saying to reapportion the wards in Philadelphia Link: www.palegis.us/house/co-spo...

it was a City of Chicago employee who was killed someone I talked to a couple times but not in a long time

The City’s rules make street improvements like parklets and streeteries onerous for organizations. A pair of transportation researchers found no good reason to keep them. https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/guest-commentary-insurance-regulations-public-spaces/

I’ve been shaken. My priors shall now be adjusted. Efficiency isn’t the end all be all. Value is. In global markets where solar has driven the daytime price of electricity to zero for many hours of the day - installing more output with better modules isn’t the number one technology driver anymore.

this is exactly why the internet was created

Qatar Airways expected to commence Doha (DOH) to Philadelphia (PHL) route after it was cancelled 3 years ago. Qatar is hiring several airport services roles for PHL.

One glaring omission: the Controller should have gone to a @centercityphila.org Open Streets event and saw these beautiful Archer barriers take the place of every PPD car collecting thousands in overtime

The biggest a-hole drivers in Philly always have tinted windows. They’re like online trolls, empowered to be absolute d-bags but only when nobody can see their face. There’s a lot of cocky cowards out there.

Seattle's light rail & streetcar lines carried 4.8 million riders in April—a 44% increase above March, after Link Line 2 was extended to connect Seattle & Bellevue across Lake Washington. Seattle's light rail & streetcar lines are now the most-ridden in the nation, above LA, Boston, or San Diego.

Now that the City will be owning a literal $200 million white elephant, they should open up the clock tower as an observation deck

Very sad it's only for the existing 13 MFL stations and not systemwide (like Chicago), but a good incremental step forward

City Council continues to prove that it is unwilling to do anything that might raise revenues. Apparently they're content to let the city run on fumes. We underfund schools. We underfund parks. We underfund transit. We strangle small businesses. And worst, there's no real plan to stop.

Confusing stance by the majority of Council: opposing school closures but also opposing the revenue to prevent them

COUNCIL TO CITY SERVICES: DROP DEAD

This is a great writeup that anyone interested in civic tech should read. Colorado is fundamentally shifting its IT department to act more like the digital service teams that have been in vogue. This is a big bet on actually scaling & institutionalizing that approach.

Gov Shapiro: let's give $30 million to more drunk drivers leaving the stadiums and $0 for SEPTA improvements

City Council ignoring the one person who knows anything about business? Shocked. $80M turns into $200M just like that

Meanwhile in Philadelphia.

There's some TIDES data over here: tides.dds.dot.ca.gov

SMART weekly ridership is up TWENTY PERCENT since the MASCOTS change on April 12, aligning bus schedules and increasing service by 19%. And it's only been 5 weeks.

News: A bill to levy a 5% tax on digital ad sales revenue in Pennsylvania has passed out of a Democratic-controlled House committee along party lines. Supporters say it raises millions from big tech companies but opponents say the cost will be passed on to consumers.

"But contrary to online discourse full of suggestions that Philadelphia is ground zero for the robot resistance, people were largely welcoming of the machines they encountered in Center City, protective even"

It's not just coho (and getting pointed to articles like this is why I subscribe to @theoverheadwire.com newsletter. thanks Jeff!)

"The city cannot decide whether AVs operate here, or when, or under what safety conditions. What it can decide is how to tax them...Cities that have not established robust frameworks before that transition will find them very difficult to build afterward"

Much like with streetcar nostalgia, I think 95% of “why don’t we make pretty buildings anymore” discourse is pining for an unrecoverable configuration of markets and materials and values that produced the old building, not the building itself

It'd be one thing if City Council followed the slopulist trend of suspending gas taxes & freezing property taxes. But to not charge the tech companies that abuse our public infrastructure every day is disgraceful. Zero backbone in the face of weak lobbying

Anti railroad sentiment was the slopulism of its time

Congrats for discovering the one weird trick bad consultants use to stay in business

At last! Tuesday's architecture column critiques the Obama Presidential Center. Last year, I said the museum tower "looks funereal enough to fit in at ... Oak Woods Cemetery." But after spending time last week on the completed campus and inside its buildings, I gotta say I like it.

Porch fest was stellar and allowed for a lovely ride on the newly parking protected Walnut Street bike lane. Even the orange construction cones were effective and made me feel safer 🎉🎉

The PROWAG ADA curb ramp requirements were basically not designed with East Coast cities in mind, only perfectly flat Sunbelt cities with perfectly uniform intersections, corner radius, curb heights, and drainage. www.access-board.gov/prowag/techn...

The highway expansion you committed $30 mil to is going to impact actual residents of south Philly and save drivers maybe 1 minute for about a year. How about you commit that money to SEPTA instead of a project that nobody here wants, that was pushed through in a deceitful way by PENNDOT?

A woman and four children are in the hospital after being hit by a car in Northeast Philadelphia Friday night. www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio...

Pretty clear they’re trying to buy the 1893 World’s Fair off temu

The combined busway/tramway near Country Club Plaza is very well done too. Things you’d love to see more of in the US.

Yesterday, Philadelphia's City Council passed a resolution in support of ranked choice voting! It calls on the state legislature to pass a law letting cities & counties use RCV in local elections. Congrats to @endpacorruption.bsky.social & the other Pennsylvanians who made this happen!

Awful, right at the Lindbergh/Island intersection which just got a big road diet. It's clear that more improvements are needed, including a Lindbergh road diet and full concrete bike lane protection

Afghanistan's rail freight capacity boosted with opening of additional terminal https://bit.ly/43CSsta

Today’s announcement from Gov. Shapiro spending $30 million in state funds for Stadium District roadways is a major disappointment when SEPTA is still facing a long-term funding crisis threatening transit service

Been fussing with these photos for a few months now, taken during the Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys charter back in March. They chartered @septaphilly.bsky.social trolley. #septa #trolley #lightrail #philly #girard

Slides for the Fairmount Line Stadler KISS BEMU are here cdn.mbta.com/sites/defaul...

Aside from this being a huge middle finger to SEPTA, this new on-ramp at 7th will also bring tons more traffic right next to SEYAA's baseball fields, endangering kids every day. The first step in the I-95 widening disaster

The mayor previously proposed a 2% increase to the hotel tax to fund her goal of eliminating street homelessness. The new proposal is for a 0.6% increase, plus a 6% tax increase on short-term rentals. www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio...