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Ten years later Ardmore Transportation Center still in the works
In 2003 the Lower Merion Township Board of Commissioners approved the Ardmore Transit Center Conceptual Master Plan. A decade later, one element of that plan, phase one of the Ardmore Transportation…
Feb 4: Blatstein casino update | Bakers Centre ShopRite job access | Overbrook parish merger | St. Bonaventure's grim future | Pittsburgh-Harrisburg Amtrak jeopardized
Good morning, and welcome to the working week. Enjoy the sunny, albeit chilly, morning: The skies are going to cloud up and bring another evening dusting of snow our way. Bart…
Developer feud: Blumenfeld v. Caplan | 30th Street reno work | Toll bridge traffic down | 'More park, less way'
It is a beautiful morning, Streeters, but we're heading for 96º today (feeling more like 105º). It's back to the territory of excessive heat, so do your best to stay…
Public hearing tonight on design for AMTRAK's new transmission line, electrification system
AMTRAK and representatives from Burns Engineering will hold a public meeting tonight in Radnor Township to discuss an electrification transmission line project, now in the design and planning phases, that will…
The Porch: a super-sized parklet full of potential
On November 2, the new public space on 30th Street Station’s south side officially opened with much fanfare. Circus performers unfurled a small banner above the large crowd, revealing the plaza’s new…
Name Game
As PlanPhilly reported earlier this month, the south side of 30th Street Station is getting a new public space created from a former parking lane on Market Street. The space is currently being…
U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood announces $2 Billion for high-speed intercity rail projects
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced $2 billion in high-speed rail awards providing an unprecedented investment to speed up trains in the Northeast Corridor, expand service in the…
Philadelphia businesses and planners tally economic benefits of high-speed rail
Amtrak unveiled its $117 billion high-speed rail plan for the Northeast Corridor in September.Three months later, a panel began tallying up the potential economic benefit to the Philadelphia region at…
PennDOT allocates money for a new train station for Coatesville
In an unusual move, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has allocated a little more than $15 million for a new station before it is designed.The station, at Coatesville, lies along…
PRR steam plant chimney imploded at 30th Street
Nov. 15 By Matt GolasFor PlanPhillyUnder the watchful eyes of the City of Philadelphia emergency management folks, police and hundred of onlookers, the 400-foot, brick facaded chimney that loomed…
"Drexel Shaft" at 30th Street Station to be demolished Sunday
Necessary Ruins: Eulogy for a Shaft I consider the Drexel Shaft to be that good friend with a quiet solid presence. Like a lot of utilitarian remnants of Philadephia’s industrial…
How SEPTA is spreading stimulus dollars
Wayne Station renovation June 25By Anthony CampisiFor PlanPhillyWASHINGTON — In an occasionally testy hearing ostensibly about the federal stimulus package, SEPTA general manager Joseph M. Casey and top transportation…
