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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 20h

Did not expect the 4x difference between Bucks and Montgomery counties share.inquirer.com/YdrhTK

Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is up there with the DA complaining to a reporter about undelivered campaign contributions for craziest story of the year

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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

maybe consider expansion to the booming region of Center City, Philadelphia. Just saying

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bilal and the Sheriff's office is the prime example of the political elite all going "yeah this sucks, so shameful haha", no one doing anything meaningful about it, and thus affecting zero people's political careers

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You ain’t wrong but a living wage’s a living wage

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can read PBJ articles fo free with your Philly Free Library card I just can’t find the link right now because ~restructuring~

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

~Philadelphia exceptionalism intensifies~ "At full capacity, the manufacturing plant will be able to pump out about 3,000 cans per minute and 5 billion cans a year, making it the largest beverage manufacturing facility in the world, DrinkPak CEO said Tuesday" www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia...

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DrinkPak investing $350M to make Bellwether beverage manufacturing site the world's largest - Philadelphia Business Journal

DrinkPak has already discussed the possibility of leasing more space in South Philadelphia as its plans for the city's biggest industrial building keep getting bigger.

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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

More Jobs = More Housing Thank you for coming to my TED talk

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

plenty of people would try their hands at interesting little businesses if it they did not need to generate a huge profit at the outset and i think this is something governments should encourage. (and lots of little businesses makes a place more livable!)

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5th Square Advocacy @5thsqadvocacy.org · 19/09/2026

Councilmember Young wants to weaken our lifesaving speed camera program by reducing fines even for reckless drivers going 30+ mph over the speed limit! Tell City Council not to let it happen: www.5thsqadvocacy.org/Speed-camera...

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Speed Cameras Action | 5th Square Advocacy

Tell City Council to stand up for safe streets and protect Philadelphia families: Say NO to Bill 260699!

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Larry Davis @thephillyguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Opinion: ‘The Philadelphia police simply do not seem to take enforcing traffic laws seriously enough.’ (gift article free to all) share.inquirer.com/PONaMf

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Will a pedestrian death move Philadelphia police to step up traffic enforcement? | Shackamaxon

Plus: An effort to rid the city’s commercial corridors of “smoke shops” and City Council’s return from summer break.

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The south street bridge really is needlessly dangerous for bike commuters and pedestrians. There’s plenty of room for concrete lane dividers to order the chaos

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So it turns out that LeBron decided to live in Philly after all

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5th Square Advocacy @5thsqadvocacy.org · 10/09/2026

Yesterday, a woman wearing scrubs was hit while biking eastbound on the South Street Bridge. This is the most biked bridge in all of PA. On any given day, an order of magnitude more people walk, bike, or take the bus across this bridge than drive personal vehicles.

Picture of the eastern end of the South Street Bridge. Cones are blocking off the section where the right-turn lane and bike lane intersect

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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"“After [the Simonson deal], we realized the younger people wanted to [be in the city],” Kondisetty said."

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Joseph N DiStefano @phillyjoed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My Q&A with Gary Kim: "Shipyards are great for everyone except the people who work there. The economic boom is paid in blood." My latest, on why the real audience for shipyard recruiters shd be our 30MM construction, transport, factory workers. Q&A with Gary Kim: www.inquirer.com/business/han...

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Why don’t construction and factory workers want to build ships?

Gary Kim, formerly a junior officer with U.S. Navy construction units in Asia, detailed the painful conditions and skilled labor shortages at shipyards around the world.

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Why aren’t there any food options in terminal a very west?”

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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Stu Bykovsky supporting speed cameras: hell freezing over

Stu Bykofsky supporting speed cameras

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Speaking as someone who got a $100 ticket, it has made me more conscious of the speed limit on South Broad Street.
I know there are those who regard the cameras simply as a money grab. The FACTS show they influence behavior toward safety. See less
Speed cameras credited with slowing down Broad Street drivers
A speed camera mounted on North Broad Street at Arch Street captures drivers who go more than 11 mph over the posted speed limited. Tom Gralish/Staff Photographer
By Thomas Fitzgerald
Staff Writer
Speed enforcement cameras along
Broad Street seem to have nudged drivers to slow down: Violations. have dropped 67% from October 2025 through March 2026, according to the first available data from the Philadelphia Parking Authority.
Broad Street, also designated State Route 611, has 31 speed cameras spread over 13 miles between Philadelphia's northern and southern city limits. They began operating last September.
Since then, PPA has issued warnings or violations to nearly 800,000 speeders.
In October 2025, the Broad Street cameras issued 213.057 formal
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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Shoutout to the Department of Aviation www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia...

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5th Square Advocacy @5thsqadvocacy.org · 04/09/2026

As anti-Flock sentiment gains momentum, we want to remind everyone: red light/speed cameras ≠ Flock cameras Flock cameras are used for surveillance. Red light and speed cameras are used to enforce specific traffic violations in a privacy preserving way--and they save lives! 🧵

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Shapiro is wary of Flock cameras and the potential loss of privacy

The governor believes Pennsylvanians' privacy may be at risk, according to a spokesperson.

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There’s no excuse when a similar commercial corridor a mile south is sub-5%

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

South Street east of Broad has a THIRTY percent vacancy rate. If that’s not a desperate enough situation to warrant a pedestrianization pilot I don’t know what is

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’ve started seeing more PPD pullovers than during the Kenney years but there’s still an insane amount of blatantly fake and blatantly illegally covered plates out there

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The next time @5thsqadvocacy.org hosts a follow-on to their wildly popular powerpoint fest I’ll put together a deck with every single second order impact discussed ~in detail~

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Sic Transit PHL @sictransitphl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

*extended profanity*

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hopefully it’ll get more people riding the MFL!

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It sounds like the commonwealth made them an offer they couldn't refuse but I'm sure it didn't hurt that UC is one of the more transit convenient neighborhoods in the entire northeast corridor

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Burlington moving HQ from the burbs to University City will have huge knock-on effects… Philadelphians who work there and currently have to drive to work will be able to walk/bike/SEPTA Moving near a SEPTA stop will start looking more attractive I’m out of room but there’s lots more

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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Atwater Kent museum part 2. As soon as Drexel publicly disclosed its financial troubles years ago it should have been obvious that its external ventures led by John Fry would be in trouble too. Yet we the public are powerless to have any voice in its future

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

True, but the topic naturally leads to thinking about the barriers that keep people from going carfree in spite of all the benefits

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"The cities have vast differences, but possess a few common ingredients that seem to have spurred their growing population of children: high-paying jobs and decent local schools." www.wsj.com/us-news/seat... (🎁)

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Seattle and D.C. Are Bucking the Trend by Attracting Families With Kids

The number of kids rose 10% in both places, even as it fell in most other similar cities.

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Lol listen anonymous keyboard warrior I yearn for the day when I can go back to being carfree

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Whatever they need to do to take credit for what results I’m here for

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Pass the Driscoll/LIFT Act @bradwilhelm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’s a how-to guide for those who sell going carfree to the carfull

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