Ridley Park

The second manned helicopter in the United States, the first being Igor Sikorsky, and then went on to create Piasecki Aircraft Corporation.

And that corporation's products lead all the way up to the CH-47 Chinook, which is still being built by Boeing in Ridley Park.

Wow.

He is the father of tandem helicopters, and tandem helicopters have rotors that intertwine between—intermix with each other.

my recommendation has always been to let the local municipality where the green space is put up a bond referendum itself and let the voters there within that local municipality do so.

A voter in Clifton Heights or in Ridley Park or Media is, wouldn't have any impact there because that's not green space, say, if it was in Thornberry or in Middletown, that we would be voting on.

That would be for their local municipality and for those taxpayers there to decide whether it was worth protecting or not.

$120 million is massive.

As KYW's Justin Udo tells us, this multimillion-dollar project is literally bridging a community back together.

The Sellers Avenue Bridge in Ridley Park is only 75 feet long, but that bridge that's a century-plus old carries more than just history.

It made a lot of the routes coming into town a lot easier.

Jeff Fowler is one of the dozens of Ridley Park residents who came out to the bridge reopening Thursday.

He says that bridge that sits over top of the train tracks and next to a regional rail station may be small but plays a big part in the community.

I was concerned about the businesses not only getting here, but the parking.

Let's bring in a caller.

We have Maura from Ridley Park on the line.

Maura, you're on Studio 2.

What's your question or comment?

you're not rolling that propane grill inside the house yeah thank

you

i think that would be a safety hazard yeah yeah thank you mara from ridley park i mean that's good advice right uh margaret like if you good at barbecue or you good at spaghetti and pasta or whatever pick your thing and stick with that

totally i mean the number one rule of dinner parties which i'm constantly breaking is make something that you already know how to make um that's a good way of relieving anxiety is just like you know don't bust out the beef stroganoff

In a lot of spots we have accidents on some major roadways.

One on I 95 just near Route 420 in Ridley Park.

Looks like just one lane of traffic is getting by there, so that is starting to get jammed up as you make your way up from Delaware into Delaware County.

We also have a crash in Chester County on 202 southbound at the exit toward Route 252 in Paoli.

And, you know, Willis usually writes speculative literary fiction.

He publishes that under the pseudonym Ridley Park.

Oh, wait.

Fun fact about that.