Philly’s Chinatown started changing before the Rail Park was planned, says Yue Wu, neighborhood planning and project manager at the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation. But since the first phase opened above Chinatown North and the Callowhill neighborhood in 2018, that change has not slowed down. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
SEPTA is going on a hiring binge unlike any other in the transit agency’s history, seeking people to fill more than 200 vacant positions, doing everything from driving buses to customer service. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
The deployment of social-outreach workers on SEPTA transit is set to increase eight fold. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
The legislation will go into effect in 120 days, and prohibits traffic stops for certain low-level offenses. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
The proposed two-year contract provides raises, pandemic-related hazard bonuses and parental leave for some 5,000 Transit Union Workers Local 234 members. A vote to ratify the deal is scheduled for Nov. 5. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
The online resource shares which routes will be closed, altered, and which will remain running. We’ve compiled other resources to guide Philadelphians who rely on SEPTA as they seek alternate means of getting around. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
The new program will allow SEPTA to do so by shaping development near SEPTA services, which will lead to increased ridership, improved social equity, the stabilization of SEPTA’s financial base and reduced reliance on cars. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
Philadelphia police officers will stop pulling over drivers for minor violations in the near future after City Council voted Thursday to approve a bill intended to reduce racial disparities in traffic stops. From: Metro Philadelphia (Read more.)
A strike “would have a devastating impact” on the district and imperil its ability to keep all schools open for in-person learning “five days a week for all students — something we all worked extremely hard to make happen for all students this school year,” he wrote. | From: Chalkbeat Philadelphia (Read more.)
Color Me Back is a component of Mural Arts’ Porchlight initiative, creating public art projects in partnership with the city’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
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