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Mobility

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Want Your Kids to Grow Up Rich? Move to Bucks

Predicting someone’s future income is not like scouting baseball talent. Statistics on height, weight, arm strength don’t apply. Household income matters, we know that already. But what […]

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SEPTA on Demand? How the Uber Model Can Save Bus Transit

The first urban bus route was created in London in 1829. Four horse-drawn coaches would make the 4.5 mile trip from Paddington to Bank Junction daily, picking […]

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Philly Ranked 4th Most Walkable U.S. City

Philadelphia is the fourth most walkable large city in the country, according to Walk Score (a company that produces the “go-to metric for walkable cities,” says […]

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Lots of Philadelphia Sidewalks Are in Horrible Shape — How to Fix Them?

Walking around Philly, it’s hard to miss the cracked sidewalks, dissolving curbs and tectonic-plate-like concrete slabs converging on top of one another, causing pedestrians to stumble and […]

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Millennials Aren’t Flocking to Cities Anymore—Can Philly Buck the Trend?

Half a million fewer Millennials picked up and left to start over in new locations following the Great Recession, according to a new study released by […]

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Should Cities Embrace Nighttime Truck Delivery?

An immensely success pilot program in New York City is forcing cities to rethink how trucks maneuver their streets. Or more specific, when they’re allowed to. NYC’s Off-Hour Delivery (OHD) initiative has successfully […]

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Op-Ed: Let’s Stop Accepting “Accidents” as Inevitable

(Editor’s note: This is a op-ed column from Alex Doty, executive director of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia.) A 7-year-old boy and 10-year-old girl were […]

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This Is Why Philly Roads Are So Rotten

Pothole season has arrived and, soon the city’s streets will be littered with craters just waiting to bust an axle or fling a bicyclist over his […]