Philadelphia Seeks Proposals to Pedestrianize Ben Franklin Parkway
The city hopes for transformative solutions to reinvigorate the auto-centric parkway and create safer paths for people walking and biking. March 14, 2021, 7am PDT | Diana Ionescu |
Philadelphia is seeking proposals to redesign the Benjamin Franklin Parkway with a stronger focus on bike and pedestrian infrastructure, reports Ryan Briggs for WHYY. The joint RFP, filed by the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Office of Transportation Infrastructure and Sustainability and the Mayor’s Fund, calls for a total redo of Eakins Oval –– including the removal of a surface parking lot –– and better infrastructure for public gatherings. City leaders want to make the space between Logan Circle and the Philadelphia Art Museum a more accessible, more usable pedestrian-oriented civic space.
The city released a request for proposals seeking designers to guide a major redesign of a stretch of the Parkway between Logan Circle and the Philadelphia Art Museum.
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Man’s arrest at Art Museum steps prompts criticism Robert Moran, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia police were criticized Friday after two short video clips were posted on Twitter showing a man being arrested at the iconic Philadelphia Art Museum steps for allegedly soliciting donations from visitors in exchange for taking their pictures with their phones or cameras.
Claire Wolters, a local journalist, recorded the videos and posted them on her Twitter account. She later wrote an article about the incident that was published by the Billy Penn online news outlet.
Wolters wrote that she saw the unidentified man sitting by himself at the top the steps when he was approached by a police bike officer. She said the officer asked to see his identification and the man refused to provide any.