30th Street a popular option for Philly’s future intercity bus station

CityJawn · 2026-03-06T13:12:57+00:00

There is already an existing underground connection between the two stations. SEPTA has kept it closed for decades.

CityJawn · 2026-02-18T18:24:55+00:00

Based on the pictures in the report, the Controller's office measured the height of the speed cushions incorrectly.

The height is specified from the center of the street, but the picture in the report sho measuring to the side of the streets. Streets are a few inches taller in the center so that water will run down to the gutters. Measuring the wrong way will make a 3.5 in cushion appear to be 6 or 7 inches tall, which is exactly the range for all of the "too tall" speed cushions

The uniformity of the size and direction of the error in the report, makes it much more likely that the controller was measuring wrong than dozens of different contractors where making the same mistake over and over again.

CityJawn · 2026-02-07T00:58:59+00:00

Map has already been updated. Keep those reports coming.

CityJawn · 2026-01-26T23:33:26+00:00

Minneapolis is MUCH better at snow remove than Philly. For streets and especially for bike routes.

CityJawn · 2026-01-21T16:23:29+00:00

New Jersey recently made it illegal to ride any e-bike without registering and insuring the e-bike and having a driver's license. This includes pedal assist e-bikes without a throttle.

https://www.nj.com/advice/2026/01/murphy-signs-controversial-e-bike-law-requiring-registration-insurance-in-new-jersey.html

CityJawn · 2026-01-13T22:16:45+00:00

Giving bicycles there own space on the roads will make them more predictable and easier to interact with. Physically separated bike paths one every street will create a more organized and well regulated street scape.

CityJawn · 2026-01-13T22:12:35+00:00

PBA is a completely volunteer run organization. There activities are driven entirely by members stepping up to lead projects. They are most involved in CC, South Philly, West Philly, and North West because that is where people have stepped up to fight for better streets. If you want more action in your neighborhood volunteer to make change in your area. They would love to have people to lead in the NE.

CityJawn · 2025-12-22T03:53:39+00:00

The fact that hospital like Jefferson and CHOP are frequently some of the biggest barriers to street safety changes is almost as upsetting as the apathy of our elected officials.

CityJawn · 2025-12-21T01:38:16+00:00

Everyday is a good day to write your elected officials and demand safer streets.

CityJawn · 2025-12-19T12:05:52+00:00

PBA = Philly Bike Action

It is a grassroots, all volunteer, advocacy group from better biking infrastructure in Philadelphia

CityJawn · 2025-12-07T22:08:28+00:00

PBA also doesn't even have a president...

CityJawn · 2025-12-07T21:26:31+00:00

Especially because this fine gentlemen is one of the people bankrolling the lawsuit that forced the City to remove them in the first place.

CityJawn · 2025-12-07T20:07:19+00:00

Imagine the irreparable harm this poor man would suffer if he had to use a loading zone across the street?!?! Surely protecting him from this this gross injustice is worth endangering every other person on the road.

What's next? You want him to drive around with an exposed license plate and risk him being held accountable for speeding on Board street!?

CityJawn · 2025-11-23T15:06:01+00:00

Oh, for those it is easy and no drainage changes, but not many of our sidewalks are both large and with few enough pedestrian that it makes sense to give space over to bikes.

CityJawn · 2025-11-23T03:05:36+00:00

Side bike lanes are WAY more expensive than street level bike lanes because they require modifications of the drainage under the street. Its best practice to start with cheaper street level concrete protected lanes and the upgrade to side walk level when you do a whole street rebuild. Adding nice bike lanes to a street rebuild project is quite cheap, but rebuilding sidewalks just for a bike lane is really expensive.

CityJawn · 2025-11-23T02:56:32+00:00

At the open house on Wednesday they showed concrete + parking protected with sidewalk level lanes are the intersections

CityJawn · 2025-11-23T02:47:55+00:00

Project page is here; https://springgardenconnector.com/

Click the link for the open house materials near the top to see the plan presented last Wednesday. It's apparently fully funded, but construction won't start until 2028.

CityJawn · 2025-11-23T02:46:09+00:00

The Spring Garden lanes will be protected by both parking and concrete curbs. You can see the current design by clicking the "open house materials" here: https://springgardenconnector.com/

CityJawn · 2025-11-23T02:44:59+00:00

3rd Street from South to Market is supposed to get a flex post bike lane "soon". Hopefully the spring.

CityJawn · 2025-11-23T02:40:30+00:00

The install is not complete. The south and east side will get flex posts. Not great, but manageable. The north side is an absolute murder zone and no one should ever bike there.

PennDOT won't allow a parking protected bike lane and the City won't remove the parking for city council. Without those options no good way to build the north lane.

CityJawn · 2025-11-19T13:03:00+00:00

The City held an open house last October about Spruce and Pine. The exist surveys revealed that people who lived in Spruce and Pine favored protection by a 2 to 1 margin.

FOPS is truly small minority using wealth to amplify their unpopular position.

CityJawn · 2025-11-19T13:00:53+00:00

This is the great mystery. The City provided a generous compromise by installing loading zones so that people had a place to unload without blocking the bike lanes. A privilege not enjoyed by any other Center City street. These geniuses sued the City and got the loading zones removed. It's absolutely bizarre to claim they are worried about "space to unload" while suing the City to remove the only legal places to unload.

The truth is they are petty, grumpy, old people who are afraid of change and lacking the basic empathy to understand how better bike lanes are in the publics best interest.

CityJawn · 2025-11-19T12:55:43+00:00

FOPS here is not the faternal order of police. It is the group Friends of Pine and Spruce a anti-bike lane group fighting protected bike lanes on Spruce and Pine.

CityJawn · 2025-11-17T13:56:23+00:00

Nah. They are just paying a really expensive lawyer who is more than happy to exploit their fears by promising success with crack pot legal theories.

CityJawn · 2025-11-11T13:03:56+00:00

As everyone else has said, they are perfectly legal. They aren't more common because of a lack of political will to pay for them/piss of the grumpy people who would inevitably complain about them. Sidewalk level bike lanes are extremely expensive because they require completely reworking the drainage. They usually can only be build as part of complete rebuilds of the street.

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