Snow Causes Delays, Cancellations At PHL
Officials at Philadelphia International Airport say the FAA has issued a ground delay of up to two hours for arriving flights due to snow.
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Officials at Philadelphia International Airport say the FAA has issued a ground delay of up to two hours for arriving flights due to snow.
As retail outlets, restaurants, and other places of business found themselves working with skeleton crews on Wednesday, SEPTA says it did, too.
KYW's Hadas Kuznits was on a bridge tour hosted by the councilman pointing out the bridge problems in the city's Grays Ferry/Point Breeze neighborhoods.
Council president Darrell Clarke, who also represents the district where the tower will be located, says there will be meetings for residents to voice concerns.
If you've driven the Vine Street Expressway and parts of the Schuylkill after sunset over the past couple months, you might have noticed fewer lights along the way.
The bitter cold temperatures and left over snow are making a mess of mass transit this morning.
The School District of Philadelphia will be open Thursday but officials want parents to be aware of challenges students may face getting to and from school.
Talk about the last thing you want to see at an airport, no, not snow. One word: cancelled.
With more than a foot of snow covering the ground, commuters should be prepared for delays on Wednesday.
South Philadelphia has dozens of streets that are too narrow to plow, so neighbors have no choice but to do it themselves.
According to city officials, crews are "lifting" it.
Mayor Nutter said the city's snow emergency will be lifted as of 6pm Wednesday, and that the nonessential portions of city government that are closed today will be open tomorrow.
Samuel Snyderman, of Snyderman's Gulf, at Second and Vine Streets in Old City, says these very low temperatures can be really hard on car batteries and other components.
"This morning I knew the bus was probably going to be a little bit unpredictable, and obviously the bike was not gonna work, so I decided to cross-country ski," says Mark Fallon, a naturalist at Briar Bush Nature Center in Abington.
Bus Route 117 will have no service to Polytech High School, and Bus 8 will have no service at all.
