Overview
This page contains information about the 48th & 47th Streets Repaving and Traffic Safety Project. The project area is 48th Street from Market Street to Kingsessing Avenue and 47th Street from Chestnut Street to Paschall Avenue. The project goals are to address the high rate of traffic crashes and install traffic calming measures on each street.
- 47th Street from Chestnut Street to Paschall Avenue sees a high number of crashes, and is on the City’s Vision Zero High Injury Network (HIN), which is the 12% of streets in Philadelphia that experience 80% of all traffic deaths and serious injuries.
- 48th Street from Market Street to Kingsessing Avenue is excessively wide and has also seen many crashes. The street was repaved in 2023 and will be fully restriped in 2024 with a layout reflects safety conditions and feedback from the community groups.
- Traffic calming measures considered for the corridors include but are not limited to painted corner areas, speed tables, traffic signal to stop sign conversion, all-way stop sign conversion, and separated bike lanes.
Project Timeline
- Summer 2025
47th Street: Repaving and restriping with new layout and curbside regulations from Kingsessing Avenue to Chestnut Street
- Spring 2025
47th Street: Additional resident, stakeholder, and business outreach to finalize the curbside regulation changes. Finalizing design of 47th Street, including locations of striping, speed cushions, and updated curbside regulations. Pre-paving block meetings with stakeholders to explain the layout changes.
- Winter 2025
48th Street: Striping and installation of flex posts on select blocks that had construction late last paving season
47th Street: Design coordination between CM Gauthier’s office and City staff
- Fall 2024
48th Street: Finalizing striping, speed cushions, and repaving of select blocks
47th Street: Focus Group Meetings and Public Meeting to share the concept for the 2025 repaving and traffic safety project (Chestnut to Kingsessing)
- Summer 2024
48th Street: Restriping of the new layout
47th Street: DVRPC announced the award for a Transportation Community Development Initiative (TCDI) Program 48th & Woodland Area Traffic Safety Study (including 47th, Kingsessing to Paschall avenues)
- Winter 2023/2024
48th Street: Three (3) public open house meetings to share the City recommended designs and gather feedback on the 48th Street design decision for 2024 restriping
47th Street: Applying for funding for a transportation safety study south of Kingsessing Avenue
- Summer 2023
City discussions with RCO & community leaders on traffic calming
- Fall 2023
Two open house meetings held in September to discuss options for each street
Additional smaller community discussions to discuss options and trade-offs on both streets
- May 2023
Department of Streets announced 48th Street repaving
- September 2022
Neighbors reached out about a 48th Street Greenway Concept