Blog: Pedestrian Accident

Grays Ferry Avenue does not behave like the rest of the streets in Graduate Hospital. Most of the neighborhood follows William Penn’s right-angle grid. Grays Ferry slices across it from northeast to southwest, meeting Christian, Bainbridge, Catharine, and South Streets at sharp, uneven angles. Every corner along it has an odd shape that drivers and …

Lombard Street runs one-way through Fitler Square. Every weekday morning, it carries a wave of drivers through Center City. Traffic builds on the expressways, and then vehicles wind up on Lombard within a few blocks. Residents step off their stoops while drivers are still slowing down from highway speeds. At Rand Spear – The Accident …

If you ride the Broad Street Line into Passyunk Square on a Friday night, you climb out of Tasker-Morris Station and immediately face six lanes of South Broad. The Broad Street Line opens five entrances at the Broad-Tasker and Broad-Morris corners. Riders surface on the western sidewalk, look across the street at the East Passyunk …

If you have walked along 2nd Street in Northern Liberties on a Friday night, you have felt how packed it gets. The bars and restaurants between Spring Garden and Girard pull thousands of people onto a narrow stretch of street, and most of them end the night looking for a ride home. The street was …

Northeast Philadelphia is one of the most heavily traveled sections of Philadelphia, shaped by wide arterial roads, dense commercial corridors, and commuter traffic flowing between Bucks County, Northeast neighborhoods, and Center City. While this layout supports regional mobility, it also poses serious risks to pedestrians, especially at large intersections where high speeds, long crossing distances, …