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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!

Guess the Primary Results

🗳️ Election Day is TOMORROW!

These candidates best represent our mission to make Philadelphia a more affordable, accessible, equitable, sustainable, and transit-friendly city for everyone.

ENDORSEMENTS

  • City Council, at-Large
    • Rue Landau (# 63)
    • Eryn Santamoor (#71)
    • Katherine Gilmore Richardson (#75)
    • Job Itzkowitz (#77)
    • Isaiah Thomas (#79)


RECOMMENDATIONS

Polling places will be open on election day, May 16th, 2023, 7 AM - 8 PM. If you are in line by 8pm you are legally allowed to vote. Find your polling place here.

What about the other races? Check out this voter guide from the Inquirer or see this endorsement spreadsheet from PA Youth Vote.

📮 Mail Ballot Info

Your mail ballot must ARRIVE by TOMORROW to be counted -- you can submit your ballot at any drop box by 8 PM on May 16th. Please don’t mail because they may not get to the Board of Elections in time.

DON'T FORGET!

  • Use the secrecy envelope
  • Sign and date the declaration outside the return envelope

Ballot Curing is Back! The City Commissioners released a list of folks who have not done one of the above. Here is a combined Google Sheet by ward/div. Please check to see if it's you or someone you know.

Still have you mail ballot and want to vote in person?

  • Bring your ballot and the pre-addressed outer return envelope to your polling place to be voided. You can then vote a regular ballot.

  • If you don't surrender your ballot and return envelope, you can vote by provisional ballot at your polling place.

Find Our Slate on Your Mail Ballot:

🥀 Tragedy on Arch Street

A reckless motorist has killed a mother after a hit-and-run at Broad and Arch Streets near City Hall on Tuesday night that also left her 8-year-old child seriously injured.

This story is far too common with our dangerous streets, serving a strong reminder of why advocacy for safer streets matters. Please consider donating to this gofundme campaign to support the affected family.

🏛️ Harrisburg Lobby Day

Join the Bicycle Coalition and Families for Safe Streets in Harrisburg in June!

The Roosevelt Boulevard Automated Speed Enforcement pilot is set to expire in December of 2023 and we need your help to make sure our legislators know how important this technology is for the boulevard and all of Philadelphia.

Tuesday, June 6th -- Meet at 30th St. Station 7:00 AM and arrive back in Philadelphia at 5:05 PM.

If you’re interested in joining please sign up

🚏🚌 Wissahickon TC Groundbreaking

The Wissahickon Transportation Center is finally moving forward! improving the facility serving over 7,000 pre-COVID daily passenger trips -- more than nearly every regional rail station.

The Groundbreaking Ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, May 18th at 10 AM and we want transit supporters to come!

RSVP Here

👕 FREE SHIRT

GET A FREE BLVD SUBWAY SHIRT TODAY by becoming a member of 5th Square for as little as $5 a month!

Get a FREE Shirt!

Waiting for the right time to become a member? NOW IS THE TIME! Once you sign up, the link to order your free shirt will be emailed to you.

You can help us make a walkable, transit-friendly city for everyone with your financial contributions. Become a 5th Square member today!

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EVENTS

Ride of Silence
Wednesday, May 17, from 6:45 pm – 8 pm
The annual Ride of Silence is an international ride that honors bicyclists killed or injured by motor vehicles. This ride will start at the North Apron of City Hall and will travel an 8-mile route through Center City before ending at the Art Museum. Rain or shine.

Taking your bike on Amtrak | League of American Bicyclists
May 22 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Ever thought about taking your bike on the train, but weren’t sure how to do it? In this webinar, hosted by the League and the Amtrak Bike Task Force, we’ll hear from Amtrak about how riders can use their website to determine which routes have roll on access, which require bike boxes, etc. The Amtrak Bike Task Force will also announce a new survey.

Let Manufactured Homes In: Removing Regulatory Barriers to Manufactured Housing
MAY 23, 2023, 12–1 P.M. ET
In this webinar, leading experts will discuss why and how policy makers can allow manufactured homes in more places as a solution to the housing affordability crisis.

WHAT WE'RE READING

🏙️ HOUSING & LAND USE 🌳 PUBLIC SPACE 🚌 TRANSIT

SURVEYS

PennDOT District 6 Survey - Interstate 95 Girard Avenue Interchange Project Sections GR5 and GR6.
The project team is seeking feedback on potential designs of spaces under and adjacent to I-95 as a follow-up to information presented at recent Near Neighbors Meetings held in Northern Liberties and Old City. Meeting materials from these meetings can be found at 95revive.com. The survey will be open to the community until June 30.

GRANTS & OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

Lehigh Ave Safety Project Liaison Application
City of Philadelphia’s Office of Complete Streets, is recruiting Lehigh Avenue Safety Project Liaisons. Liaisons will help organize their community on traffic safety and transportation accessibility. This project focuses on Lehigh Avenue between Kensington Ave and American St.
$1,800 stipend, apply by May 31st !

Philadelphia Water Department - Stakeholder Advisory Group
The Stakeholder Advisory Group (SAG) will be made up of community members with an interest in Philadelphia Water Department infrastructure projects. SAG members will serve as important advocates for the Water Revitalization Plan (WRP) and will engage with the community on plan progress as well as gathering and sharing of information related to the program.

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