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Two pieces of modern trail infrastructure connect Fitler Square to the Schuylkill River. Both tie into sidewalks that were poured generations earlier. The line where new surfaces meet old residential pavement is where a routine walk turns into a fall. At Rand Spear – The Accident Lawyer, our Fitler Square, Philadelphia, slip and fall accident …

It is a Saturday afternoon on Fairmount Avenue. A family steps out of a rideshare and starts walking the last few blocks to Eastern State Penitentiary. Their eyes are on the prison’s tall stone wall up ahead. Their feet are on a sidewalk that was poured before anyone alive today was born. Around 200,000 visitors …

Walk through Callowhill near Spring Garden Street and Ridge Avenue, and the neighborhood’s industrial past is still built into what you see underfoot. Heavy brick buildings, old granite curbs, and worn entry steps remain from a time when this area was designed for factories, freight, and rail traffic, not modern apartment living. Today, those same …

Slip and fall accidents in Northern Liberties often increase during spring due to standing water, poor sidewalk drainage, and lingering wet surfaces. Streets like Canal, Laurel, Bodine, Cambridge, and Orkney are especially prone to recurring wet spots after rain, creating unsafe walking conditions for pedestrians. Even when sidewalks appear normal, hidden moisture, pooling water, and …

The “streeteries” that line Walnut, 18th, and 19th around Rittenhouse Square sit on wood-and-steel platforms built into what used to be the parking lane. Diners step up onto the deck on the way in and back down on the way out. Two surface transitions per visit, on a threshold most patrons never inspect. Wet wood …

The brick sidewalks along East Passyunk Avenue carry weekend dinner crowds across a walking surface that has not been rebuilt in over a century. Tree roots have lifted entire courses of brick by an inch or more in places. Decades of foot traffic have eroded the mortar between the bricks, leaving gaps and unstable edges …