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5th Square Advocacy @5thsqadvocacy.org · 30/09/2026

On Monday night, more than 500 of you joined us for the urbanist event of the season: CityNerd Live in Philly: The City’s Scorecard. We hosted @nerd4cities.bsky.social Ray Delahanty for a live show discussing what Philly gets right and wrong when it comes to transit, walkability, and affordability.

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John Mutton (he/his) @wylacot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Still happening - Q&A - with @blvdsubway.bsky.social / Jay Arzu interviewing @nerd4cities.bsky.social / Ray Delahanty at Resurrection Philadelphia

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Paul Spencer @suchprotech.com · 29/09/2026

If you're an urbanist and you're not at the @5thsqadvocacy.org event with @nerd4cities.bsky.social @blvdsubway.bsky.social @mayorjoi.bsky.social and so many others you're missing out. Gives me hope that so many people are here

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

SEPTA Police are on the system with more funding we can hire more.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Route for Change Tomorrow Meetings are coming soon! Hope to see you there

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Imagine a Roosevelt Boulevard Subway station at North 9th Street anchoring a major redevelopment, with a restored Wingohocking creek as its centerpiece.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We want to be clear, we are not waiting for SEPTA's plan to be completed to lunch the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway. We will continue to push for Accleration of its Design and Engineering to get it shovel ready. More greatness to come!

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

SEPTA has released it's Acclerate Plan and it included a map of future SEPTA Metro Extensions! The Roosevelt Boulevard Subway is on there! wwww.septa.org/wp-content/u...

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The 2040 PEL study times the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway using a 23.2 mph average speed. That number was carried over from a study published in 2003. We rebuilt the timetable from actual Broad Street Line train performance. The line runs 13 minutes faster than forecast.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We are releasing a new Roosevelt Boulevard Subway report tomorrow! Stay tuned for that.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Boulevard Tomorrow will improve the street network around N. 9th Street, realigning the roadway to make crossings safer and adding a new shared-use path.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Roosevelt Boulevard Subway has very solid ridership numbers.

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Lisa Deeley @deeleyforphilly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today, I submitted the following public comment to the Philadelphia Planning Commission expressing my support for the @blvdsubway.bsky.social.

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5th Square Advocacy @5thsqadvocacy.org · 18/09/2026

Our housing organizer Dr. Jay Arzu was on @nbcphiladelphia.com to discuss the Roosevelt Boulevard subway and what we need to do as a city to prepare for federal funding.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The future Castor Ave protected Bike lanes will connect to a proposed shared use Sidepath on Roosevelt Boulevard.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A strong showing at the City Planning Commission today. Northeast Philadelphia and Bucks County made it clear: we want the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway. Thank you to everyone who came out and spoke up.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨 Philly Planning Commission takes up Roosevelt Blvd plans TOMORROW. How to comment: 📧 Email planning@phila.gov by NOON Thu 9/17 📝 Subject: Public Comment, Agenda Item 4 💬 Say: move the Roosevelt Blvd Subway into design & engineering.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Have you noticed that the announcements say Westbound or Eastbound L1?

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

11th Street Station has been stripped down to its core, its ready for its year long close.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We wanted to take a moment to Congratulate our Executive Director Dr. Jay Arzu on winning the Dissertation of the Year in Planning for his dissertation, The Roosevelt Boulevard Subway: A Century of Promise, Politics, and Persistence (1913-2026). www.acsp.org/page/Arzu2026

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Erie Station is at the halfway point of its renovation and it looks like a mess but once it's done it will look great and have elevators.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Whatever Alternative is chosen, the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway will not be deep. That is a major victory for our advocacy. PennDOT will be coming back soon.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Race-Vine Station is clean and very large. It has two separate mezzanines at the north and south ends of the station. The mezzanine was originally one continuous space, but it was divided into its current arrangement when the Vine Street Expressway was built.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

SEPTA Police Officers are jacked and ready to give you a ticket. Pay your fare!

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Kensington High School's 400+ students will spend the fall commuting seven miles to a shuttered middle school in Northeast because of asbestos. The Roosevelt Boulevard Subway is what turns an emergency like this into a manageable ride.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

North Philadelphia station is clean, ADA compliant well maintained. In the future Express Trains and the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway (B4) should stop here again.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In one year, 11th Street Station will be transformed into a modern, ADA-compliant facility.

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5th Square Advocacy @5thsqadvocacy.org · 16/08/2026

Tickets are now available to the general public for our @nerd4cities.bsky.social live event next month! Get yours here: www.5thsqadvocacy.org/citynerd

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you don't pay your fare, they'll be a SEPTA Police Officer waiting to give you a ticket!

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Love to see 👀 stations get fully renovated. 11th Street will be closed for an entire year!

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

SEPTA is already doing small work removing the dated yellow tiles at 11th Street Station. It will close Sept 5th for a year of renovation work that will also add elevators to the station.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Very glad that the City of Philadelphia put the L and Trolleys underground.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

When the Schuylkill Valley Metro faltered, a task force was convened to salvage it. Among its recommendations was an extension of the Norristown High Speed Line into the King of Prussia mall district. A spur conceived as a feeder to a regional line that was never built acquired a life of its own.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

After World War II, Philadelphia faced a defining choice: transform the completed but never-used Locust Street Subway into a municipal parking garage or finally finish it and put trains on the tracks.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“Unless the City of Philadelphia forms a definite transit program very soon for the extension of high-speed transit lines into the Northeast and Northwest sections of Philadelphia, the city is going to be depopulated.” — Councilmember Clarence K. Crossan (April 16, 1876 – September 25, 1960)

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Currently, the L has been coming every 8 minutes; 3-minute L service would be a game changer!

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This PATCO map dates back to 1964. Take a moment to imagine how different South Jersey could have looked if this vision had been fully realized. Then imagine what the region could become when we finally complete the system that was originally envisioned.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A fascinating glimpse into how people in the 1940s imagined the 1980s would look. It's a reminder that yesterday's vision of the future often says just as much about its own era as it does about the one it tried to predict.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A 1937 ad from the Philadelphia Transportation Company. This picture shows the L and the 10 (T1) on the Market Street Bridge! In the mid-1950s, this section of elevated track was replaced with the Market Street Subway and demolished.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Love the future design of the Market Street Bridge!

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Big news for Northeast Philly: the Castor Avenue Safety and Streetscape Improvements Project is moving forward. Funding is secured, design and engineering are nearly complete, and shovels hit the ground in spring 2028.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

As we speak, crews are tearing up trolley tracks in North Philadelphia that have sat abandoned since 1996. It didn't have to end this way. The abandonment of North Philadelphia's trolley network stands as one of the most consequential transit planning blunders in recent history.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In 2000, Mayor Street pushed to build a new ballpark in the Callowhill area. The plan fell through and the idea was moved. Today, the neighborhood is seeing major redevelopment, and with a second phase of the Rail Park on the way, it has yet to reach its peak.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Washington Ave road diet has been a massive success. The next big project will be on Castor Ave, construction 🚧 starts next year!

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The Washington Ave Connector is a beautiful thing to see done. Philadelphia be positive a better city is happening!

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

For three decades after World War II, the proposed Crosstown Expressway cast a shadow over South Street, threatening its businesses with demolition and driving sustained disinvestment. The corridor we know today still bears those scars, and it deserves focused attention and reinvestment.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Center City would look much different today. Big thanks to the communities that fought these awful highway plans.

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Philadelphia would look like this had non-interstate highway funding not been cut in December 1969. The Northeast and Pulaski Expressways would have broken ground immediately. RT 309 would have been extended through North Philadelphia, cutting past Temple to connect with the Girard Expressway.

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