Federal and city officials say a new $78 million federal grant will be used to make major safety improvements along a Philadelphia boulevard called one of the most dangerous in the city.
The US Department of Transportation grant will be used to modernize and upgrade traffic signals along Roosevelt Boulevard, as well as to reconfigure intersections, place new median barriers and “pedestrian refuge” islands, and install lanes designated for buses, authorities said.
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Philadelphia has received a $78 million grant to repair a highway known as the most dangerous in the city.
A nearly 14-mile maze of chaotic traffic patterns, the 12-lane boulevard winds through some of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods and census tracts with the highest poverty rates. Cars moving between the inside and outside lanes can make driving dangerous, but bicycling or walking can be worse with long crosswalks that can take four light cycles to cross.
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US Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pennsylvania, announcing the funding earlier this month, said crashes along the boulevard since 2016 have killed at least 75 people, 41 percent of them pedestrians trying to cross, and another 119 were seriously injured.
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Michael Carroll, deputy managing director of the Philadelphia Office of Transportation, said Monday that near-term projects are expected to be underway by 2025 and the city is targeting zero deaths along the boulevard by 2030, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. .
