City of Philadelphia v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Opinion by

Judge MacPhail,

The City of Philadelphia (City) appeals here from a decision of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) ordering, mter alia, that upon completion of improvements to the Wissahickon Avenue-Queen Lane bridge the City must at its own expense furnish material and do all work necessary to maintain the curbs, sidewalks and parapets of the bridge and the Queen Lane approaches to the bridge. The PUC also refused to order reimbursement to the City for expenses incurred in emergency repairs to the existing bridge from 1975 through May of 1983. By the same order the PUC…