{"id":136771,"date":"2026-03-12T22:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136771\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:07:06","slug":"this-weeks-biggest-winners-losers-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136771\/","title":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s biggest Winners &#038; Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the week that pedestrians got the upper hand \u2013 or foot, or hoof, as the case may be. First came the announcement that Philadelphia\u2019s Center City District <a href=\"https:\/\/billypenn.com\/2026\/03\/11\/philadelphia-open-streets-car-free-rittenhouse-midtown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">will expand its Open Streets<\/a> program of car-free thoroughfares, which, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstatepa.com\/politics\/2026\/03\/philadelphias-open-streets-report-reveals-massive-benefits-carless-events-have-center-city-businesses\/412020\/?oref=cspa-skybox-hp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data shows, brings lucrative foot traffic<\/a> to downtown businesses. And on Wednesday, cars and trucks traveling on I-279 near Pittsburgh were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/escaped-calves-pittsburgh-area-farm-found-along-i-279\/REVDJIRWSBEA3NYCDFWOPIWZOQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">forced to brake for two adventurous calves<\/a> who had escaped two days earlier from Eichner\u2019s Farm in nearby McCandless Township. The mischievous bovines were corralled and herded back safely, according to State Police.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading for more winners and losers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This was the week that pedestrians got the upper hand \u2013 or foot, or hoof, as the case&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,4219],"class_list":["post-136771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-winners-losers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}