Newsletter: 🍻 Tonight: Transit Postcard Writing Happy Hour / 🕯️ World Day of Remembrance / ✍️ Philadelphia2050 Survey
October 13, 2026
Weekly Newsletter #46 · October 13, 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.
🍻 TONIGHT: TRANSIT POSTCARD WRITING HAPPY HOUR
Join us tonight at 6pm at Dock Street Brewery South for a postcard-writing happy hour!
We'll be writing postcards to send to City Council in support of city funding
for our Zero Fare Program and SEPTA Key Advantage.
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! RSVP here.
Transit Postcard Happy Hour Dock Street Brewery South, 2118 Washington Ave Tuesday, October 13th, 6 PM - 8 PM
Want to do more to advocate for transit and the Transit Access Fund? Join us for these events too!
The Philadelphia City Planning Commission is working on a comprehensive plan update called Philadelphia2050
which will shape the future ofhousing, transportation, and public spaces in our city.
It's a great opportunity to show support for more housing, safer streets, and better public spaces!
👋 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.
Council Bill 260699 would weaken our city's lifesaving speed camera program by cutting speed camera fines, even for reckless drivers going 30+ mph over the speed limit--tell Council: Say NO to Bill 260699!
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.
When transit riders vote, we win. Canvass North Wales Station to help transit riders make a plan to vote in the November 3rd election. We'll share resources for voter registration, requesting a mail ballot, and finding your polling location on election day.
When transit riders vote, we win. Canvass Cornwells Heights Station to help transit riders make a plan to vote in the November 3rd election. We'll share resources for voter registration, requesting a mail ballot, and finding your polling location on election day.
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.
11:00 AM · Butler Triangle (between Germantown Ave, Broad St, W Butler St)
Join us to honor those who have lost their lives or been impacted by roadway crashes. We will hear from local elected officials, city staff, community leaders, and families who have lost their loved ones to traffic violence.
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.
