Overview 

This page contains information about the 48th/47th Streets Traffic Safety & Complete Streets Project. The project area is 48th Street from Market St to Kingsessing Ave and 47th Street from Chestnut St to Paschall Ave. 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.

• Three public open houses occurred Fall of 2023 and Winter of 2023/2024. 

• 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 

• 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 – 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 – Paschall Avenues) 

• Winter 2023
  48th Street: An open house meeting 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

• June-September 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