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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