Topic: I-95
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How to Make the I-95 Detour Not Suck (As Much) (Again)
Traffic is gonna be bad for a while. Here’s help making your way up and down the interstate more tolerable — and maybe even … fun?
By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Wm_Penn_Foundation_I-95_CAP_HED-791x400.jpg)
Guest Commentary: Getting the Big Stuff Done
As building has begun on the long-awaited park over I-95 along the Delaware River, the director of the William Penn Foundation lays out how we got here and why the process is a model for major development in the city
By Shawn McCaney![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Fox_News_Josh_Shapiro_School_Vouchers-791x400.jpg)
Josh Shapiro’s Master Class
Sure, the Governor’s handling of the I-95 mess has the nation talking. But in countless other ways — including his support of school vouchers — he’s demonstrating a political inside game, too
By Larry Platt![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Roosevelt_Boulevard_Bridge-791x400.jpg)
Guest Commentary: Build the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway
A Penn urbanist who has helped to revive the 100-year-old idea makes the case for expanding SEPTA in light of the I-95 disaster
By Jay Arzu![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/I-95_Collapse_Construction_Vehicle_HED_Commonwealth_Media-791x400.jpeg)
Your City Defined: I-95 (a Troubled History)
The overpass collapse last week was not the first catastrophe associated with Philly’s stretch of interstate. That dates back to … the beginning
By J.P. Romney![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/95_toward_Philadelphia_styline_traffic_raymond_clarke_images-1-791x400.jpg)
Guest Commentary: A Bold Proposal for I-95
The interstate has splintered neighborhoods and magnified inequities since its construction in 1957. A former mayoral campaign staffer proposes a solution: transportation reparations
By Amanda Steinberg![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/I-95_Collapse_Commonwealth_Media-1-791x400.jpeg)
The I-95 Wake-Up Call
The message is clear, an environmental justice advocate says: We must Stop. Using. Fossil Fuels.
By Charles D. Ellison