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October 5, 2026

A Future Philly: Car-Free Streets, a Roosevelt Boulevard Subway & Biking Through Stop Signs

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A Future Philly: Car-Free Streets, a Roosevelt Boulevard Subway & Biking Through Stop Signs

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What might be the future of our streets? We’re listening back to conversations we’ve recently had about a bill that would allow cyclists to treat red lights and stop signs as yields, upgrades coming to Roosevelt Boulevard, and where we’d like to see Center City District’s Open Street initiative replicated in other Philly neighborhoods. Host Trenae Nuri is joined by executive producer Matt Katz, senior creative producer Abby Fritz, independent journalist Claudia Vargas,  and contributors Cassidy Leyendeckers and Nic Esposito.

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