Results tagged “blueroute”

  • The Inquirer tells the story of how a plan to convert an empty convent in Germantown into apartments for formerly homeless men went south, in order to underscore the problems Mayor Nutter is likely to face with his initiative to fight homelessness.
  • Pretty soon Mayor Nutter will have to negotiate new contracts with Philadelphia's four municipal unions; the Daily News suspects the ordeal will be the end of Nutter's honeymoon.
  • A bunch of insane people actually had a bike race in Manayunk this past weekend, and other insane people actually went outside to watch it. Uh, whatever. We were inside keeping cool.
  • Some big traffic messes this morning: I-95 North in Delaware County is backed up due to an accident, which also created a gaper delay on the southbound side, and slowed things up on the southbound Blue Route. To make things worse, as of 8:15AM the Ben Franklin Bridge is backed up westbound due to some malfunctioning traffic signals. Motorists are advised to take the Walt Whitman instead.
  • The enormous amounts of traffic and congestion on the bridge across the Schuylkill linking Conshohocken with I-76 and the Blue Route is actually threatening the town's growth, besides slowing people down and annoying them.
  • Looks like the region's flu season for this year is going to be a mild one, but the CDC warns it's not over yet.
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