Article: Planners take different tack with underachieving Philadelphia parkway.

By Stephan Salisbury, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 19--The Benjamin Franklin Parkway is an anomaly -- a thoroughfare that wants travelers to stop, a vista that wants to be visited and not simply looked at. Is it park or highway? Place or passage?

A sense of the Parkway's unfulfilled promise has led the Center City District over the last several years to rethink the design and shape of the area.

A glimpse at the current state of that planning effort came at this month's meeting of the Fairmount Park Commission, which asked district executive director Paul Levy to present a Parkway update.

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