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NBC Philadelphia: Speeding, double parking fuel safety concerns on East Girard Avenue – East Girard Avenue in Fishtown is an extremely busy corridor, and advocates held a walkthrough this week to push for safety improvements for pedestrians, drivers, cyclists, and transit riders. Issues facing this corridor include speeding drivers, double-parked cars, illegal turns, and pedestrians crossing outside of crosswalks. Improvements could include dedicated turning zones, pedestrian infrastructure, curb extensions, and more traffic signs.
Mass Transit: Off the Beaten Path: Pittsburgh’s streetcar past keeps rolling at Pennsylvania Trolley Museum – Children can enter the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum for free throughout September. The museum, located in Washington County, has more than 50 trolleys and streetcars on display. Visitors can ride working trolleys along 4 miles of track. Pittsburgh’s trolley system dates back to the late 1800s, and visitors can learn all about that history and more.
Metro Philadelphia: Gusset Plate Project brings art under the El in Kensington – Murals painted by residents over the past few years were installed onto triangular gusset plates that connect columns and beams holding up the Market-Frankford Line along Kensington Avenue. The Kensington and Harrowgate neighborhoods have received a little more color due to the mural plates, which can be found between Huntington and Tioga stations.
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PARK(ing) DAY PHL: PARK(ing) Day is September 18, 2026
Pennsylvania Capital-Star: The Pennsylvania Turnpike is added to Oklahoma’s PikePass system
New Jersey State Democrats: SINGLETON, CCSNJ, SJTA TO ANNOUNCE NEW MICROTRANSIT SHUTTLE IN BURLCO
Virgina Mercury: Amtrak to suspend Virginia-to-D.C. service for critical track upgrades Oct. 16–26
Thanks to a generous grant from the Delaware Health Sciences Alliance, Clean Air Council will install 50 low-cost particulate matter monitors on homes, businesses, and organizations in Delaware this summer. These new monitors are an extension of the Council’s ongoing civic air monitoring campaign in North Philadelphia and this will be the Council’s first air monitoring campaign in Delaware.
In South Wilmington and in the rest of New Castle County there is an abundance of gravel grinding and asphalt based businesses that generate large amounts of unregulated dust pollution in the form of asthma inducing particulate matter 2.5 pollution. South Wilmington, more specifically known as Southbridge, and other chronically flooded low-income communities of color along the Route 9 corridor in New Castle County suffer from an immense and expanding heavy industry zoning that overburdens residents with air pollution.
Businesses and industrial site operators can be fined for dust blowing off material piles, and the data from these sensors will help residents make informed complaints to state environmental regulators and work them to better address the issue. The monitors are made by PurpleAir, and anyone can access data from any PurpleAir monitor running across the globe using purpleair.com/map.
Please contact Russell Zerbo at rzerbo@cleanair.org oe 215-567-4004 x130 to schedule an air monitor installation in Delaware or to learn more about the Council’s air monitoring programs in Delaware and North Philadelphia.
