Ryals v. City of Philadelphia

OPINION BY

Judge COHN.

The issue before us is which governmental body, the City of Philadelphia (City) or the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (DOT), bears responsibility for maintaining a crosswalk, formed by interlocking precast concrete pavers (“z-bricks”) and concrete headers, that crosses a City street that has been adopted as a State highway. The resolution of that question is, in turn, governed by whether the concrete headers and z-bricks that form the crosswalk are legally determined to be simply part of the surface of the “highway” or considered to be part of a “traffic…