{"id":215035,"date":"2026-06-09T22:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215035\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:57:12","slug":"philadelphia-completes-market-street-upgrades-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215035\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia completes Market Street upgrades \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia leaders gathered Tuesday at The Plaza at Second and Market to celebrate the completion of a renovation project aimed at improving safety and accessibility ahead of America\u2019s 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n

The project included the installation of new traffic and pedestrian signals along a busy stretch of Market Street between 2nd and 6th streets. Crews spent months completing the improvements.<\/p>\n

Everything from wider sidewalks to protected bike lanes, new accessible curb ramps and new bump outs for anyone boarding buses. <\/p>\n

City officials credited Old City residents and businesses with helping launch the renovation effort as part of the Old City District\u2019s Vision 2026 plan.<\/p>\n

The upgrades are part of broader preparations underway across Philadelphia ahead of the nation\u2019s semiquincentennial celebration in 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC Philadelphia. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC Philadelphia journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia leaders gathered Tuesday at The Plaza at Second and Market to celebrate the completion of a renovation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4000,8120,88470,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-215035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america-250","tag-america250","tag-our-250","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215035","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=215035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}