Newsletter: ✍️ Transit Postcard Writing Happy Hour / 🛠️ Fix the South St Bridge / ⏮️ CityNerd Live Recapped
October 6, 2026
Weekly Newsletter #44 · October 06, 2026
5th Square Advocacy is an urbanist organization of grassroots advocates building a coalition for better transportation, housing, and public space in Philadelphia. Thanks to our growing network of sustaining members
for making this work possible.
✍️ TRANSIT POSTCARD WRITING HAPPY HOUR
Next Tuesday, 10/13,
join us at Dock Street Brewery South for an informal event writing postcards in support of a Transit Access Fund
for Philadelphia!
We will provide the cards, stamps, and pens. Just bring your stories!
Drop in anytime and stay as long or as short as you want! All ages are welcome to this event!
Transit Postcard Happy Hour Dock Street Brewery South, 2118 Washington Ave Tuesday, October 13th, 6 PM - 8 PM
🛠️ FIX THE SOUTH ST BRIDGE
The South Street Bridge is the most biked on bridge in all of PA, but bicyclistskeep getting hit while riding in the bridge's bike lane.
Such a well-used bike lane deserves safer infrastructure ASAP! We're joining Philly Bike Action's call to protect the bike lane with jersey barriers, and eliminate the dangerous mixing zone
by adding a dedicated bike signal.
Last week, more than 500 of you joined us for the
urbanist event of the season, CityNerd Live in Philly: The City’s Scorecard.
We hosted CityNerd
Ray Delahanty for a live show discussing what Philadelphia gets right and wrong when it comes to transit, walkability, and affordability.
Thank you so much to Ray for coming out to our city, our volunteers who worked hard to host the event, and everyone who joined us and bought a ticket. The money we raised from ticket sales will go directly to funding our advocacy for a better Philadelphia.
It's a great article that explains why speed cameras are so important, as well as the strict rules around their use that differentiate them from Flock cameras.
If you support speed cameras, take action here
to help us push back against Council Bill 260699 which would weaken our city's lifesaving speed camera program.
The Roxborough Development Corporation recently hosted the fifth NW Fifth Square
Meet Up in the Pocket giving Philly advocates, activists, and interested neighbors a chance to come together and talk about the future of the city.
With representatives from several organizations promoting positive change through elected officials and grassroots activism, the low key meet up provided an opportunity to interact with those on the front lines of public advocacy.
👋 BECOME A MEMBER
Thank you to everyone who has already joined as a member! Our members fuel our grassroots work
for a more accessible, sustainable, and equitable Philadelphia.
12:00 to 1:30 PM · Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St
Penn Urban Studies is hosting Kian Goh, associate professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, for a free lecture on flooding and urban environments.
PennDOT is hosting a virtual public meeting for Roosevelt Boulevard. Join in and share your thoughts about what you want to see for the future of the Blvd.
5:30 to 7:00 PM · Village of Industry & Art, 320 S Broad St
Join Design Advocacy Group and representatives from DVRPC, SEPTA, and the Philadelphia City Planning Commission for a discussion on how to leverage the region’s transit network to create and sustain neighborhoods that prioritize people and make walking, biking, and transit convenient, attractive transportation choices.
Help shape the future of trails in our city. Attend the open house to learn more about the trail plan, share your ideas, and help create better trail connections.
Making All Stops is a community storytelling production where SEPTA riders read their own short pieces about their metro memories, their SEPTA stories, their moments of transit and trust, care and connection. To be a part of it, fill out this form.
2:30 to 6:30 PM · Penn Museum, Widener Lecture Hall, 3260 South St
Transportation Initiative at Penn is hosting an event designed to connect transportation-focused public agencies with faculty and staff at the University of Pennsylvania to collaborate on applied research projects. Public agency staff are invited to give low-stakes, two-minute pitches on short-term, high-impact projects that could benefit from external expert support.
Attend the free world premiere of Car Brain, a feature documentary about parking and the crisis around car ownership in Philly. The film covers the PPA, the activists of Philly Bike action, and a host of eccentric Philadelphians
6:00 to 8:00 PM · Nikki Lopez, 304 South St, 2nd Floor
Join us for our November social meetup, focused on South Street! We're hosing a data-driven look at more than 50 years of South Street’s economic history and how its vacancy and corridor-health trends compare with East Passyunk, featuring special guests Eleanor Ingersoll, Executive Director of the South Street Headhouse District, and Brandon Engelhardt, author of the Saving South Street study.
5th Square Advocacy is a grassroots nonprofit organization driven to advance a vision for a more accessible, sustainable, equitable Philadelphia for all residents. Donations are not tax deductible.
