This emerged as a comment to this Old Urbanist post , but was rejected because of its length: So the conventional theory is dead wrong; t...

So PennDOT and Amtrak are engaged in a chicken game for the question: Whose responsibility is it to fund the Dail y Penns y lvanian ? Neithe...

Stroad to Boulevard is a blog dedicated to a single policy recommendation: the replacement of American-style arterial avenues (aka stroad...

One of the blogs I follow is " Stroad to Boulevard ", run by a Vancouverite. It documents how the difference between what Strong T...

The St. Stephen's Square proposal for 10th and Market Market East is at a crossroads. PREIT has bought out the former Gimbels at 9...

The Planning Commission has decided to pursue BRT in the City Branch. The importance of this route as a transit linkage was identified in th...

Something interesting is happening in the village of Lafayette Hill. A Main Street is coming to be. This, despite the majority of this Mai...

The North Broad casino proposal, the "Provence". Late last week, just before Sandy's wrath broke over the Northeast, Bart ...

With the recent announcement that they are acquiring 901 Market from Vornado (a New York landlord's only significant Philadelphia holdin...

The 30th Street area is marked by a few very large presences: the railroad and the two universities, Penn and Drexel. Both are putting hea...

Flourtown . Jenkintown . Ardmore . What do all these places have in common? They're all four-lane Main Streets in rights-of-way really...

Earlier today I was reading the Atlantic Cities article on whether or not Millennials will stay in the cities they now call home, and thro...

In the comments on the last post, the conversation--inevitably--turned back to Zoo, and I pointed out in the comments that ...Zoo does hav...

In the main post on this matter, I mentioned that the actual pinch point on 30th St.'s southern approach occurs where it passes under t...

Professional transportation engineer Liam left me this comment on my previous post, The Alternative to the Market East Tunnel : What would...

I have already spoken about my criticism of Amtrak's proposed Market East tunnel, a cogent enough piece Alon Levy relies on it and The ...