5th Square

08/27/2024

Join us on a transit & walking tour to Roosevelt Blvd discussing recent improvements and the potential for rail transit

Monday 9/16, 9am
🥟$20, Lunch included!
The tour is led by Matt Wysong from OTIS, Pearl Hyunh of NECPA, and Jay Arzu

Join us on this transit and walking tour to Roosevelt Blvd with Dim Sum Lunch! We will be starting/ending at 17th & Race Streets with Dim-Sum Lunch at China Gourmet at 2842 St Vincent St.

07/22/2024

07/21/2024

Now is the time to demand safer streets from our elected officials

We need protected bike lanes on Spruce and Pine Streets with permanent hardened barriers and an end to the dangerous practice of using these lanes for vehicle parking and loading.

We are shocked and horrified by the images and stories of Dr. Barbara Friedes, who was killed while biking on the 1800 block of Spruce Street. Murdered by a reckless motorist and by a city government that has failed to provide for her safety.

09/20/2023

Thanks to 5th Square and Philly Transit Riders Union for supporting !

Have YOUR community organization sign our Grassroots Transit Funding Platform ----> https://www.transitforallpa.org/platform/

09/20/2023

Great meetup in at Manayunk PHS Pop-up Garden last week! We heard updates from SEPTA on progress with the new Wissahickon Transportation Center and discussed state legislation for transit funding and safer streets. State rep Tarik Khan also came!

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10/05/2022

5th Square transit volunteer Ben She is on WHYY News as part of a panel talking about the way forward for increasing safety and service on SEPTA. Tune in!

https://www.facebook.com/WHYYNews/videos/1391940941335388

09/12/2022

🔨No doubt you’ve noticed that apartment buildings are sprouting like weeds all over Germantown. One developer, West Powelton Development (WPD), headed by Germantown native Anthony Fullard, is about to submit a formal proposal to the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation to acquire the Germantown Town Hall and rehabilitate it. In order to make that happen, however, Fullard’s company will build a 39-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail behind it, on its parking lot.

🧱Read more about the plan at nwlocalpaper.com/back-to-life, and comment below what YOU think of this plan.

06/07/2022

The Reading Terminal Market is getting ready to undergo an expansion.

06/06/2022

The federal grant would come from a program designed to reconnect communities separated by highway construction.