New: four million people could be forced to leave public housing and other federally assisted housing under new plans from the Trump administration, according to experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by @propublica.org.

Appreciate the intent, but positioning tactile strips diagonally to run right into the cheek wall is strange and almost certainly runs counter to international standards

Some very major barriers to more efficient buildings are right-leaning code/fire professionals and craft unions. Sunrise and their ilk are bad and all, but liberals’ problem is that they can’t stand up to *anybody* with a plausible-sounding concern, not just those on the left.

The EIR for the 1978 citywide downzoning in S.F. archive.org/details/fina...

Paying multiple row offices millions to perpetuate blatant corruption, the Philadelphia way

Its insane that American politics now more or less revolves around infrequently passing a single comically large overstuffed money bill instead of like... normal legislation

Featured in the latest Digest: Private Sector Responses to Public Transit Initiatives https://www.nber.org/digest/202509/private-sector-responses-public-transit-initiatives

Waymo is still shutdown in the Phoenix area, per users there. >24 hour outage bc of rain in Arizona. FWIW, I imagine Waymo's Phoenix ops team has been overwhelmed by the dozens if not hundreds of immobilized and/or partially submerged robots they've had to retrieve and inspect, repair, clean, etc.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

1. We don't have a transit funding problem in the U.S., we have: - a transit costs problem - a transit operation competency problem - a land use problem - a car subsidy problem

A 72-year-old woman is dead after a suspected drunk driver hit her with his truck in Northeast Philly Friday night, then drove off.

Camden's 500k sq ft office high-rise at Walter Rand TC now has a conceptual rendering? Wish them the best of luck but yet another example of pursuing corporate white whales with ludicrous tax breaks instead of quality mixed-use infill re-nj.com/aiming-high-...

It is fantastic that the Ben Franklin Parkway vision is still moving forward despite Mayoral change, but any time someone has to convince you that you won't feel the "irrelevant" cars anymore, it's a major red flag that road dieting hasn't gone far enough!

Please tell me they aren't going to switch out the railroads that were literally based in Philly!

HELL YES

Cities make America great

If there was ever anything to unite the private sector *and* transit agencies competing on a limited pool of CDL drivers, it's this

How much farther could Philadelphia's Rebuild program have gone if we allowed mixed-use redevelopment on small, cramped, and squat libraries? Sadly we'll never know because this city does not care about effective housing production

thinking some more about this I am a little disappointed that the extended discussion about transit safety seems to have crowded out any discussion of traffic safety, which statistically is a much bigger public safety issue for people in an area that includes several high crash corridors

Not enough blame goes to the Hamilton charitable trust, who by scuttling the proposed acquisition of UArts by Temple, has now resulted in invaluable artworks lost to public view

tired: defensive walking wired: offensive walking

Türkiye, Syria, and Jordan agreed to revive the historic Hejaz Railway through a trilateral MoU. Türkiye will help complete the missing 30 km in Syria, Jordan will handle locomotive maintenance.

Soemthing that is always notable to me about Americans is that they struggle to find the right language to discuss transit or cities at all. You often hear them say things like “build bus lines” or call things light rail when they definitely are not.

Interesting that while all of the counties in our region saw growth among domestic and foreign born populations, Montco and Chester are the only ones with significant increase in U.S. born pop

Are we finally going to save transit funding by actually funding state police through proper methods (not PennDOT)? Very unlikely, but one can dream

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB5a... a neat little lecture on the basics of a Taktfahrplan and the basics of how railways schedules are built in the german speaking world

Let a hundred cultural markets bloom

Kongjian Yu, a landscape architect known for "sponge cities," has died in a plane crash in Brazil

A broken rate review process reinforces Class I railroads’ monopoly power over shippers. This hinders reindustrialization, forces freight onto trucks, and raises costs for consumers and the public. Listen at: www.solutionaryrail.org/podcastinter...

This is a really revealing and rich passage in what is overall a really good piece. The reason nonprofits aren't producing more affordable housing isn't that they "can't operate at the scale of the federal government"—they literally are operating at the scale of the federal government('s subsidies)

i feel like this problem could be avoided if the railroads didn't have a business model that required 200-car, 2.5-mile-long trains full of imported TVs and washing machines to idle in unsecured sidings for hours on end while waiting for other traffic to clear

Turn it into a Center City District Open Streets event, as apparently police are fine with Archer barriers when they deploy them

They say that one day they will release the final part of Philadelphia International's master plan update

Latinos and Preservationists Celebrate Saving Teatro Puerto Rico A cultural cornerstone in North Philadelphia comes back to life. hiddencityphila.org/2025/09/lati...

In today's @inquirer.com SEPTA GM Scott Sauer outlines his vision for SEPTA’s future and explains why recent approval to use state capital assistance to cover operations does not solve the need for a long-term funding solution—it's a band-aid: share.inquirer.com/b10ryi. #ISEPTAPHILLY #HowWeRoll

Member deference tends to be stronger in single-party bodies, and the council member (Kristy Marmorato) is a Republican among mostly Democrats

Among Democrats - "Have you heard of the Abundance agenda?" No: 88% Yes: 12% Echelon / Sept 22, 2025

Not sure if this is the right long-term outlook. The level of wage/business tax the city sets as a matter of policy is functionally inversely proportional to the set level of property tax. The current valuation crisis has as much to do with the former policy as it has to do with WFH.

Keeping our city’s biz taxes the highest in the nation has costs share.inquirer.com/6u0Sm6 (🎁)

No matter where you live in Boston, your fare on the Commuter Rail should be the same. Join us in supporting the Fare Equity bill before the State Legislature.

Fairmount Park is one Philadelphia's most underused assets, because it's not designed to be safe or usable as a park. Since 2019 41 people have been killed by crashes in the park. @bikeaction.org is trying to fix that. Sign their petition to call for a safer park: bikeaction.org/campaigns/de...

This problem is fundamental to our system, so it’s worth thinking about solutions that sidestep it rather than hoping for enlightened self-interest at the state or national level. Plug for an article I wrote fleshing this out, applying the lessons congestion pricing: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

To put some color on this: SEPTA tried the expansion strategy in Schuylkill Valley Metro with proper electrification and frequency, but they were repeatedly shot down by FTA no matter how hard they tried to make it work. Infrequent diesel commuter rail was the flavor of the day

"The transit funding crises now unfolding in PA, OR and IL are happening because in these states, too much taxing power is in the state instead of in the cities. The same problem bedevils the politics of urban regions, whose suburbs will never support transit the way the inner city does."

The wealthiest people in Philly have hijacked a local civic org and has effectively turned it into a funnel for money to fight roadway safety citywide. 😡

Don't mind me, I'm just celebrating

New prayer for when your electronics and technical problems just dropped

Governor Murphy has defunded investment in NJ Transit by $2.4B over 10 years while increasing funding for highway expansions to $24B over 10 years. It is no accident our trains and buses are constantly breaking down. #turnpiketrap

"It's going to ruin the small town feel!" I yell over four lanes of traffic on both Lancaster Ave and Montgomery Ave www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

union bus station sign, walker and sheridan streets, oklahoma city, oklahoma, 1993