Walkable Jenkintown calls for PennDOT to put York Road in Jenkintown on what planners call a “road diet”. In order to reduce traffic, its speed, and to catalyze the revival of commerce on the York Road and the surrounding commercial district, PennDOT must reduce road capacity by removing a lane of traffic in each direction through Jenkintown between Washington Lane and Cloverly Avenue. Your questions, please. Q: This idea is […]
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Jenkintown’s community conversation gets hot and spicy
For this walkability advocate, it’s deja vu all over again. Twenty years ago, my former home town considered a plan to demolish a five-story, historic retail store on prominent corner in its downtown and replace it with a McDonald’s, Shell gas station, convenience store combination. This poor city had long since suffered the ravages of having teeth kicked out of its main streets for thirty years before that, and those […]
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Sign the Petition: Put Parking back on Old York Road in Jenkintown
Route 611/ Old York Road traffic is making it impossible to revitalize Jenkintown’s commercial district. It’s four lanes of traffic make what is the heart of our town hostile to pedestrian traffic. Thanks to the fact that parking is not allows on the street, there exists no buffer between the traffic — which is both voluminous and typically in violation of posted speed limits — and pedestrians. Unfortunately, this road […]
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Taco Bell tolls for Jenkintown’s fiscal mismanagement
Is Council about to sell us out to cover for an impending financial crisis? We seem to have a Borough Council that relishes controversy — or is perhaps clueless about how they cause it. The latest tempest to thunder into our fair borough comes on the back of a chihuahua, that despite our laws against it, sports a drive-through window. My experience has taken me down dozens and dozens of […]
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Jenkintown Borough Council meeting for November 27, 2017
Last week’s Borough Council meeting brought us good news, bad news and worse news. Good news: No property tax increase. Bad news: It will still cost more to live in Jenkintown. Worse news: No property tax decrease. Rick Bunker, social media bully and council member, proudly announced that the 2018 budget will contain no property tax increase, but trash collection will cost more and parking fees will double. The worse […]
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Stepping on Jenkintown’s political third rail
It’s time to talk School District and why the school tax is unravelling our community Any discussion of Jenkintown inevitably leads to how much the community values its tiny little schools, and if the school has any shortcoming at all, it’s an unnamed need not yet met. By most measures, Jenkintown schools fare well in most state-wide comparisons of test scores, and everyone from parents to administrators to realtors all but […]
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Voting the Write-ins to Win!
If you are supportive of the write-in council candidates, it is very important that you vote ONLY for them if you live in the wards where they are running. Ted Histand is running in Ward 3 against Rick Bunker and Kieran Farrell. If you vote for Kieran and Ted, you can hurt Ted’s chances of winning by adding to Kieran’s total votes. In a three-way race, a handful of votes […]
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Jenkintown Borough Council Meeting October 23, 2017
We skipped more than a few meetings thanks to summer activities, but we’re back with the last Council meeting before the election. (Vote for Peggy). No real drama here, except yet another resident comes to complain about the Borough’s lack of code enforcement. Rather than tell George Locke to do something immediately, Borough Council President Pancoe resorted to her typical wishy-washy stance to ask George to maybe look further into […]
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Why vote for Jenkintown’s write-ins?
Because Jenkintown deserves discussion, civility, and disclosure from our Borough government. The three write-in candidates for office here in Jenkintown have issued their talking points explaining their positions. These fully explain why Walkable Jenkintown fully supports this write-in effort, if for no other reason than to remind the entrenched council that too many Jenkintonians can’t count on a fair hearing or even basic respect from our Council. We are dismissed, […]
Legal Issues / Policy
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Bring Walnut Street parking into compliance before a lawsuit does
Jenkintown’s selective enforcement of its own laws risks expensive litigation. As most people who live in Jenkintown know, the sidewalk along the 300 and 400 block on the south side of Walnut Street exists primarily as a parking spot for the residents who live along that road. Of course, this is not actually the case. Jenkintown regulations, as they do in most cities and towns, prohibit cars from parking on […]
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A Final Word about Rick Bunker
“Think about it. We have a president who is so easily played by a cable news host. What does that say to our allies?” — Mika Brzezinski I heard that this morning as I sat down to write this. Replace “a president” with “Rick Bunker”, and “cable news host” with “blogger” you have some idea of Mr. Bunker’s thin skin,$general demeanor, and disregard for his position and his community. Our […]
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Is SEPTA leaving the station?
SEPTA’s proposed ADA-compliant platforms diminishes the future of the train station The last time that SEPTA announced a major development at the Jenkintown-Wyncote station back in 2009, it raised quite the outcry in the neighborhood. At the time, SEPTA proposed building a new garage for the area, and mostly Cheltenham residents mobilized to stop the project in its tracks. I attended one hearing agnostic on the matter, and that night […]
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