This image shows the primary mass transit grid in the City of Philadelphia. Key: Blue = north-south, red = east-west, yellow = north-south...

The new Comprehensive Plan has a new subdistrict of CMX-5 (old C-5), called "Super CMX-5", which has a FAR of 1600% (allowing 16 s...

Henry Avenue is too wide. Drivers treat it like a speedway with traffic lights, and people keep getting run over and killed along it. I...

As time goes by, ideas metastasize and further develop. Philadelphia2050, always intended to be a model long-term transit infrastructure pla...

( Author's note: Ed. put the "...As Light Rail" at the end of Hidden City title. ) Reading Crusader model from Reading Ter...

( Author's note: This was originally intended to be an apology for City Branch rail transit on Hidden City. Its length, as well as the e...

Everything is politics. To do anything, a strong enough coalition must be assembled to counteract the opposition. These kinds of coalitions ...

Last week, Hidden City posted a short news item that Paul van Meter's ViaductGREENE is getting funding for a preliminary study for gr...

Web of lines The Swampoodle Connection was originally proposed in the early 1980s to link the Chestnut Hill West Line (R8) into the SEPT...

This post is inspired by a quote from a Mayor's Office of Transportation and Utilities (MOTU) spokesperson in an interview from Plan Phi...

Last fall, Steven Smith noted that European mass transit is subsidized the same amount as its American counterpart. Yet Europe has extensiv...

Former Chamounix Drive crossing of the run at the bottom of Chamounix Valley. Tucked away deep inside Fairmount Park, on the west bank o...

Source: 1909 G.W. Bromley atlas, courtesy Phila Geo History Glance at any map of West Philadelphia and there it is, almost a bull’s eye...

I found this article about stations as third places, and I'd like to offer my comment on it: The article in question has a bit of con...