History 170 Years In The Making: Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor In West Philly Follow the history of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor in this video by Brad ...
History Is This The Train Tragedy We’ll Learn From? (Updated) It's hard to imagine last night's Amtrak tragedy being any worse when at least seven people are confirmed dead. But the derailed Train 188 stopped just shy of a parked oil train. Brad Maule ponders ...
Development The Other Side Of The Tracks: A Tale Of Two Trestles The city is full of incidental boundaries that can often shape an area's socioeconomic character and influence housing prices and future development. More often than not, rail lines break neighborhoods into highly divided sections, creating ...
Urbanism The 30th Street District Plan Is Attractive, Ambitious, And Complicated The partners of the 30th Street District have compelling plans for the area surrounding the busy transportation hub. Still in the infant stages of planning, transforming the area into a lively, active space is rife ...
Urbanism Gray Area: The Future Of “30th Street Station” In August, the President's signature enacted a law that renamed 30th Street Station for former Congressman Bill Gray. So does that mean we should expect a blitz of Amtrak marketing announcing the change like SEPTA ...
History The Monument Men As the Bartram's Mile phase of the Schuylkill Banks development inches closer, the fate of the Newkirk Viaduct Monument remains unclear. Brad Peniston revisits the 176-year-old obelisk to learn more about the people inscribed on ...
Uncategorized Mural Arts, Crossing The Tracks In Living Color With two weeks of work on Katharina Grosse's psychylustro set to begin today (weather permitting), the Mural Arts Program will brighten up five miles of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor with striking color. But what about the ...
History Superstructure At 33rd In Thirds Little fanfare accompanies the short trek between Fairmount Park's East Park and Lemon Hill sections, but under your feet (or tires), the 33rd Street superstructure, including an unusual brick skew arch tunnel, is still doing ...
