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The City of Philadelphia released what may be its most ambitious and concretely detailed transportation plan yet on Wednesday. Called CONNECT, the seven-year plan details the goals, strategies and tactics officials hope will address the city’s most pressing transportation challenges, including increased congestion, declining bus ridership, and a bike commuting trend that’s gone flat.
The plan represents the first time city officials have publicly endorsed a number of proposals long sought by Philadelphia’s small but outspoken community of multimodal advocates, such as increasing local contributions to SEPTA’s budget; providing free transit passes for college students; killing SEPTA transfer fees; introducing dynamic pricing to on-street parking; and deploying “speed cushions” and other traffic-slowing interventions to create “Neighborhood Slow Zones.”
