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Inga Saffron

Inga Saffron

American journalist

Jul 15, 2026

6:40
And I was curious if you could kind of take us into your story of reporting on that rebuild, how you got interested and kind of drawn into it.
6:49
Yes.
6:50
So, you know, they did start from the north.
6:53
And I...
6:53
This is like 10-ish years in the 2010s? Sounds about right.
6:59
And I think when they, when PennDOT, which is, you know, the State Department of Transportation, started this reconstruction, you know, they thought they were being very progressive people.
7:11
And they decided to have a big community engagement process, which probably they didn't have in the 1960s.

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35:52
So if we bring it back to the kind of immediate practical questions at hand, the rebuild of I-95 that is planned but not yet executed for South Philadelphia, is there room to meaningfully change those plans? Are there practical steps, things that we could do that any of you think would make a difference down there?

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