Daily News | Feds award $50 million to Philly for traffic safety and trolley system work
The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded $50 million in grants this week to infrastructure projects in North and Southwest Philadelphia to improve traffic safety and public transit in neighborhoods that have elevated numbers of serious vehicle crashes.
One project will build traffic-calming infrastructure on streets near several North Philadelphia elementary schools, creating to “provide safe corridors for students to walk to school,” said Chris Puchalsky, director of policy and strategic initiatives for the city’s Office of Transportation, Infrastructure and Sustainability.on about 3.85 miles of Southwest Philadelphia streets. SEPTA will work on its program to modernize the trolley system; the city will build bicycle lanes, narrow vehicle lanes, improve pedestrian crossings and install traffic-calming devices.
Slow-traffic zones around the North Philadelphia schools could include raised crosswalks with better markings, curb bump outs and adjusted traffic signals to make it easier for pedestrians, particularly young ones. Such “complete streets” projects are part of the
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