Two thoughts: 1. I would like to call attention to two images in this post . While the author does not flat-out say it, if you take...

This has also run on Strong Towns and This Old City ; these are the permalinks for both . Looking at these two links-- Hector Street, Co...

While still an undercurrent in urbanist media, people are starting to take note of our fundamentally broken approach to passenger rail safet...

Short and sweet. Make sure there are facilities to dispense and charge NPT cards at every single subway, El, Regional Rail, NHSL, and 101...

How it's done: SEPTA's NPT wants to act like London's Oyster Card, but with an open platform. Many Oyster best practices are ...

I must admit, I was wrong. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Some time ago I went on a rant about how SEPTA and PATCO need to co...

or, why NPT and the Freedom Card need to be compatible a working paper à la Nate Hood "Organization before electronics before c...

Somehow it's unsurprising that, in our state's game of political brinkmanship between PennDOT and Amtrak, the right wing supports ki...

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...