Press Release: Intercity Bus Terminal Relocation
Press Release: Intercity Bus Terminal Relocation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
PHILADELPHIA —
While we recognize the temporary relocation of Philadelphia’s intercity bus terminal as forward progress in addressing some of our concerns, the City and bus carriers still have a long way to go in serving both riders and city residents.
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Tell PennDOT: NO highway expansion in Philly!
Tell PennDOT that there should be no highway expansion or new interchange between the Walt Whitman Bridge and Broad St, and that we should instead create more walkable and bikeable streets, and expand public transit (eg the BSL Navy Yard Extension).
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General Election Endorsements - 2023 Philadelphia City Council
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMonday, October 2, 2023
5th Square is proud to announce its endorsements for the following candidates running for City Council in this year’s general elections.
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Newsletter: ⛰️ Ben Franklin Pkwy Redesign Pop-up / 🤝 September Meetup: Manayunk / 🎫 SEPTA Contactless Payment Pilot
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 243
⛰️OVAL MEETUP
JOIN US! For a conversation with the Ben Franklin Parkway redesign team at the Oval Pop-Up Festival, this Sunday at noon!
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Newsletter: 🏖️ Beach Trip & Meetup / 📱 SEPTA Contactless Fare / 🧪 Pennovation Car Dependency
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 242
🏖️ Beach Trip this Saturday
It looks like this Saturday is going to have perfect beach weather! Join us in a daytrip to Atlantic City by beach train! We have a fun day planned of hoagie-eating, jitney-riding, beach-laying, and of course, margarita-drinking.
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Newsletter: 🏖️ Come to Our Beach Trip! / ⏸️ Conshy Garage Paused / 🅿️Finally! Sidewalk Parking Enforcement
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 241
🏖️ 5th Square Beach Trip
What are you doing next Saturday? Join us in a daytrip to Atlantic City by beach train! We have a fun day planned of hoagie-eating, jitney-riding, beach-laying, and of course, margarita-drinking.
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Newsletter: 🚸 A Kid-Friendly Philly / 🐕 Demand Shelter for Greyhound Riders / 🏖️ Beach Trip
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 240
5TH SQUARE IN THE NEWS🚸 Ways to Make Philly Kid-Friendly
Philadelphia Magazine published a recently listed 17 ideas to make Philly a kid-friendly city. All of which are priorities which we embrace here at 5th Square.
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Newsletter: 🐕 Demand Shelter for Greyhound Riders / 💳 Fare Wins In Effect! /💰 Vision Zero Ideas / 🏖️ Beach Trip
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 239
🐕 PETITION: Give Greyhound Riders Shelter
We demand the Mayor and the Streets Department to require Greyhound to shelter their waiting riders and begin work on a new bus terminal.
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Newsletter: 🚘 I-95 Carmageddon Never Came / 🤝 Meetup Next Week / 🚇 Blvd Subway News
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 238
🤝 Meetup Next Week
Join 5th Square organizers and volunteers for an informal, in-person meet-up
Resurrection Philadelphia’s Annex401 S 42nd St - West PhillyNEXT Thursday, July 6th at 6 PM
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Newsletter: 🛣️ Transportation Reparations / 🌳 48th St Greenway / 🚌 Bus Lane Enforcement Bill
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 237
🛣️ A Bold Proposal for I-95: Transportation Reparations
The interstate has splintered neighborhoods and magnified inequities since its construction in 1957.
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Newsletter: 🚇 Blvd Subway WIN / 🍻 Meetup TOMORROW / 🌬️ Our Car-Choked City is Killing Us
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 236
🚇 Boulevard Subway Council Hearings
Philadelphia City Council will hold hearings about a proposed Roosevelt Boulevard Subway, a move spurred by the I-95 collapse in Northeast Philly over the weekend.
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Newsletter: 🍻 June Meetup / 🚘 Paved Paradise / 👕 Roosevelt Blvd Subway Crop Tops
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 235
🍻 June Meetup
Join 5th Square organizers and volunteers for an informal, in-person meet-up over at the newly-opened Walnut Garden! This is an outdoor, family-friendly event where we will provide updates on our recent campaigns.
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Newsletter: 📝 How is Parker on Our Issues? / 📩 SEPTA Budget Action / 🏎️ West Philly's Deadly Speedway / 🏢 Legalizing Affordable Housing
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 234
📝 How is Cherelle Parker on Transit and Litter?
With Cherelle Parker as the Democratic nominee as Mayor, she is heavily favored to win the seat in November's general election. We are eager to see how she will govern as Mayor, and whether she will work to further our common goals for a more robust and resilient city.
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Newsletter: 🏇 Post Election Roundup / 📩 Email SEPTA Budget Asks / 🏛️ Harrisburg Lobby Day
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 233
🏇 Post-Election Roundup
Congrats to all our endorsed nominees who won last Tuesday's primary! We're excited to work with you to make Philly more sustainable, affordable, equitable, and safer.
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Newsletter: 🗳️ Election Day TOMORROW / 📝 Contest: Guess Who Wins / 🏛️ Harrisburg Lobby Day
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 232
📝 CONTEST: Guess Who Wins the Election
Election Day is gonna be a nail-biter! We're holding a contest to see who can correctly guess the results of tomorrow's Mayor and Council race.
Wager your best guess to win a Roosevelt Blvd Subway T-Shirt and bragging rights!
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Newsletter: 👕Free Shirt! / 📮Mail Ballot Reminder / 🚫Tell SEPTA: No More Parking
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 231
📮 Mail Ballot Reminder
Only one week left until election day! Here is our voter guide (and where to find our endorsed candidates on your mail-in ballot)
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Newsletter: 👕Free Blvd Subway T-Shirt / 📮Mail-In Ballots are Here / 🚲 PPA Unblocking Bike Lanes
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 230
📮 Mail in ballots are here!
Only two weeks left until election day! Here is a reminder of our endorsed candidates (and where to find them on your mail-in ballot)
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2023 Mayoral Primary - Steering Committee Recommendation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, April 20, 2023
5th Square’s Steering Committee recommends both Rebecca Rhynhart and Helen Gym for Mayor of Philadelphia
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Newsletter: 🦺Looking at SEPTA's Priorities / 🎙️Mayoral Mobility Takes / 💳 Expand Low-Income Fares
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 229
🦺SEPTA'S NEW CAPITAL BUDGET
With the demise of KOP rail, SEPTA's latest capital budget is showing the agency now shifting priorities, and money, to acquire replacement transit vehicles and address repair backlogs.
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Newsletter: 🏆 SEPTA Fare Wins! / ✅ Our Endorsements Matter / 💳Expand Low-Income Fares
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 228
🏆 SEPTA FARE WINS!
Advocacy works! SEPTA proposed two important fare changes in their recent operating budget that moves towards our long-standing fare asks to increase ridership and make the system more user-friendly.
A Second Free Transfer
Zone 1 + PHL Airport Regional Rail access for TransPass users
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April Fools!
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 227 // April 1, 2023
Thank you for reading our second April Fools Newsletter, if you aren't already a newsletter subscriber, sign up here!
All of these news items are satire, but obviously, with a kernel of truth touching on systemic issues with Philadelphia's broken political process and the way its affects our built environment and its residents.
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Newsletter: ✅ Announcing City Council Endorsements! / 🤝 Chinatown Stitch Survey / 🚇 Life after KOP Rail
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 226
✅ CITY COUNCIL ENDORSEMENTS
Our City Council endorsements are out!
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Primary Endorsements - 2023 Philadelphia City Council
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, March 22, 2023
5th Square is proud to announce its endorsements for the following candidates running for City Council in this year’s primary elections.
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Newsletter: ⚰️ R.I.P. KOP Rail / 🗳️ Endorsement Vote Time / 🏟️ Our Statement on the Arena
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 225
⚰️ KOP RAIL PROJECT PAUSED
Last Friday, SEPTA announced that they are pausing the 4-mile King of Prussia rail extension to its Norristown High Speed Line. The project was expected to cost more than $3 billion.
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Statement on 76ers Arena Proposal
5th Square stands in full solidarity with those working to ensure that Chinatown remains a vibrant, affordable, and accessible center of the Chinese community in Philadelphia.
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Newsletter: 📹 Catch up on the candidates / 🚌 Sign up for the Bus Revolution draft network webinar!
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 224
5th Square is Philadelphia's urbanist political action committee, organizing and advocating for better transportation, land use, and public space policies. Our work is made possible through the support of over 400 members donating anywhere from $5 to $25 a month.
🤝🍻 CANDIDATE MEET AND GREETS, QUESTIONNAIRES, & ENDORSEMENTS
We recently held two meet and greets with mayoral and council candidates. if you missed these, don't worry! Recordings of candidate introductions are on YouTube:
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Newsletter: 🍻 Catch Up with the Candidates! 📅 Plus, tons of events!
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 223
🤝🍻 NORTH PHILLY CANDIDATE MEETUP
The second of our two candidate meet & greet events is THIS Thursday at 6:30 PM, at Attic Brewing in Germantown.
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Newsletter: 🍻 Meet (and read) the Candidates / 🚃 SEPTA Capital Budget news / ❄️ Pics from the Phreeze
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 222
🤝🍻 CANDIDATE MEETUPS
Endorsement season is kicking off, so come meet us at two events! We will be joined by candidates for the Mayor and City Council running in the upcoming primary on May 16th.
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Newsletter: 🚃 Support the trolleys! / 🍻 Candidate Meet & Greet Events / 🚨 RCO actions!
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 221
🚃 SUPPORT NEW TROLLEYS
The monthly SEPTA board meeting is THIS THURSDAY at 3pm, and Trolley Modernization is on the agenda. We need you to voice your support for new trolleys!
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Newsletter: ❄️ So close to our Philly Phreeze goal! / 🍴 Streetery recap / 🍻 Candidate Meet & Greet Events
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 220
❄️ FEEL THE PHREEZE
The chill of winter may make us long for a summer day by the pool, but our public pools are still in jeopardy. Parks and Rec needs more lifeguards and updated buildings, otherwise pools will have to stay closed.
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Newsletter: ❄️ Help Open Pools with Philly Phreeze / 🍻 Candidate Meet & Greet Events / 👔 Our 2023 Questionnaire & Platform!
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 219
❄️ PHILLY PHREEZE FOR PUBLIC POOLS
5th Square is willing to dive like polar bears to help Parks and Rec raise money for lifeguards to keep public pools open.
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Newsletter: 🚇 Roosevelt Blvd Subway News / ⚠️ Safety Study for Cecil B. Moore
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 218
🚇 ROOSEVELT BLVD SUBWAY NEWS
SEPTA General Manager, Leslie Richards, weighed in on the Roosevelt Blvd Subway, saying it would be good for the city but is beyond agency's financial means.
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Newsletter: Read city emails 📧 👀 or sign up for the Marketing Committee meeting 👥
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 217
🚲 BIKE LANE RTKL
You may be familiar with the new Market St bike lane extension that was approved last year. Bike lanes on Market and JFK have been a long battle, first envisioned in 2009 and finally executed in 2018.
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Newsletter: Fill out the funnest Transpo Survey 🗺 and apply for a Slow Zone 🚶
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 216
🚶 SLOW ZONE APPLICATION EXTENSION
The Neighborhood Slow Zone application deadline has been extended to February 15th. The Slow Zone Project offers residents the opportunity to work with the City to reduce vehicle speeds and improve visibility on neighborhood streets.
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Newsletter: ⌛️Looking back ⏳ and setting our sites on the future! 🎆
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 215
⌛️ A LOOK BACK AT 2022
We hope everyone had a great holiday season with plenty of fun and relaxation. We accomplished so much in our 8th year! We nearly doubled our membership. Lots of us wrote op-eds and made videos. Our meetup game was on point, with notable guests like Chuck Mahron, Dr. Jenny Schuetz, and M. Nolan Gray. We got over 40 mentions in the press, too!
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Newsletter: 🏠 Houses for more neighbors!!
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 214
🏠 TURN THE KEY
Councilmember Darrell Clarke has put forth a new program called "Turn the Key", which intends to put around 1,000 new houses on the market, specifically for first-time low-income residents. Civetta Property Group has already broken ground in Grays Ferry, being tasked with the first round of 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom rowhouses that will cost $230,000. Prospective owners will be given a loan of up to $75,000 matched with a second mortgage, and then the loan will be forgiven after 30 years.
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Newsletter: ⛄❄️🎁 Come party on Tuesday! 🔎 and apply for a city Advisory Council
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 213
⛄❄️🎁 LET'S CELEBRATE!!
Feeling urbanely festive? Put on your favorite sweater* and join us at 990 Spring Garden on Tuesday, December 20th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM for our Holiday Party! We'll be holding our Fourth Annual Urbanist Awards ceremony, featuring your favorite champions of urban policy! We'll also have plenty of food and drink, so bring a friend.
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Newsletter: ⛄❄️🎁 You’re Invited to our Holiday Party!
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 212
⛄❄️🎁 PARTY ALL THE TIME!
Feeling urbanely festive? Put on your favorite sweater* and join us at 990 Spring Garden on Tuesday, December 20th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM for our Holiday Party! We'll be holding our Fourth Annual Urbanist Awards ceremony, featuring your favorite champions of urban policy! We'll also have plenty of food and drink, so bring a friend.
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Newsletter: ⛄❄️🎁 Upcoming Holiday Party + Urbanist Awards 🏊 Big Win for Sayre-Morris Pool
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 211
⛄❄️🎁 YOU ARE INVITED TO OUR HOLIDAY PARTY!
Join 5th Square members and friends for our Holiday Party at 990 Spring Garden on Tuesday, December 20th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, where we'll be holding our Fourth Annual Urbanist Awards ceremony!
Come celebrate with other Philadelphia advocates at the urbanist holiday party of the season!
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Newsletter: 🤝 Helping out is 😎 totally rad! 🚌
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 210
🏆 2022 AWARD NOMINATIONS
The year end party is coming up on December 20th, and 5th Square will be presenting awards to a few members of our community for their outstanding contributions to Philadelphia’s urbanist movement.
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Newsletter: 🤝 Volunteer! (And pester the Mayor's office too!)
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 209
👥 VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION
If you've been wanting to help out 5th Square with your time and skills, we're now holding orientations for new volunteers.
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Newsletter: PA Grant awards 💵 and a chance to shape the city budget...
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 208
💵 RACP RECIPIENTS
The list of recipients for the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program is out.
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Newsletter: Go to the 🗳 polls or 🚌 Bus Revolution open houses
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 207
🗳 VOTE!
If you didn't vote by mail, go vote today! The polls are open until 8pm. You can use Atlas to find your polling place by searching for your address. You can also use the Pennsylvania state website.
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Newsletter: 🚇 Subway news, 🍻 November meetup, 🚌 Bus Revolution open houses
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 206
🚇 ROOSEVELT BLVD SUBWAY
The Roosevelt Boulevard Subway Workshop was this past Saturday morning, and featured Jody Holton of SEPTA, Ashwin Patel of PennDOT, and Mike Carroll of OTIS, the city transportation department.
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Newsletter: ♿️ Curb cuts for all! Plus a 🚇 Roosevelt subway and a 🍻 November meetup!
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 205
♿️ ACCESSIBLE PHILLY
Last week, the city settled a lawsuit with three disability advocacy organizations and four residents with disabilities.
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Newsletter: Check your mailbox 📬 and mark your calendars for 10/29! 🚇
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 203
🗳 MIDTERM ELECTIONS!
Just like pumpkin spice and Halloween candy, midterm election season has descended upon us. It's time to get out your favorite sweater and No. 2 pencil and mark those mail-in ballots.
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Newsletter: 🚸 Want safe routes to school? Apply for a Slow Zone! 🐟 Chat at our Fishtown Meetup
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 203
🚸 SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL
School is in session, and WalkWorks has a webinar to educate everyone about the Safe Routes to School program that encourages kids to bike or walk to school.
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Newsletter: 💰 Bounty for Blocked Bike Lanes / 🚋 Don't Mess with Transit / 🐟 Our Next Meetup in Fishtown
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 202
🍻 MEETUP NEXT THURSDAY
Our October meetup is at the Mural City Cellars Wine Garden in Fishtown. Next Thursday 10/13 @ 6:00pm
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Newsletter: 🍂Time for a fall beer 🍻 outside and some YouTube 🎥 inside
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 201
🍻 MORE MEETUPS!
We have lots of things going on these days, like launching a blog, working on marketing, and keeping track of SEPTA changes. The City Council candidates are coming in each week as we gear up for election season. It's a great time to get together and talk shop with your fellow urbanists.
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