Results tagged “congestion”

  • There aren't many details available, but a schoolbus accident occurred before 8AM yesterday morning at 28th Street and Passyunk Avenue, injuring nine of the passengers, six of them children. All passengers were taken to area hospitals - the uninjured for evaluation and the injured for treatment.
  • Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend's annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what's becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one of the participants. Chicagoist's decidedly opinionated readership was also appalled that one of their staffers found a popular local brewpub to be a great place to bring a kid. They also think that an unlikely activist for immigration rights should just take her medicine and offered their own suggestions to how the city should capitalize on the local music scene. And everyone thinks that a suggested tax on bottled water is a great idea.

  • Although the Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, and Tacony-Palmyra Bridges are still officially "safe," they're also described as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Most will be undergoing repair or updating soon.
  • 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.
  • This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too – two of them in -Ist cities.

    This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us.

    With all that went down this week, we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs.

  • A couple of crazy bastards parachuted down off the Comcast Center Sunday morning. Of course, as is requisite these days when you do something stupid and dangerous, a video was taken and promptly posted on YouTube (although sadly, it has since been taken down). Police are looking for the guys, whom they plan to charge with "criminal trespassing, reckless endangerment and risking a catastrophe."
  • Things are not looking good for a quick resolution to the now three day old SEPTA strike.

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