The Wildwood tram car got a major update this week when officials unveiled new all-electric Volvo SUVs towing some of the beloved boardwalk trams. Naturally, Shore people immediately began debating whether this was innovation or the collapse of civilization.

For generations, the tram cars have been one of the Jersey Shore’s defining sounds:

“Watch the tram car, please.”

Now, that warning is being delivered by something that looks like it should be parked outside a Main Line Wegmans.

Still, the alternative was apparently the tram system slowly dying while workers searched eBay for replacement parts and swapped out 2,000-pound batteries every afternoon. So the Volvos arrive less as a flashy upgrade and more as a “please keep this thing alive” measure.

The tram car is one of those rare Shore traditions that basically everybody likes. It’s slow, slightly ridiculous, weirdly relaxing, and deeply tied to Wildwood itself. Sitting on it after a long beach day while rolling past arcades, Curley’s fries, and burned-out parents carrying inflatable toys is part of the Shore experience.

So yes, the sleek electric Volvo towing it around looks a little strange.

But as long as somebody keeps saying “watch the tram car, please,” most people will probably get over it.

Tina Fey revealed this week that despite decades in New York, she still occasionally falls back into her Delco accent when she’s tired. Which is important for the region to hear.

On the Kelce brothers’ podcast, Fey said the accent especially comes out late at night, when suddenly she’s “goin’ home” and talking about “all-monds” again. Jason Kelce rightfully understood.

The Delco accent may be one of the strongest regional accents in America because it survives absolutely everything: education, Hollywood, money, moving. You can leave Delco, become Tina Fey, win Emmys, sit courtside at Knicks games with celebrities… eventually, though, your body will betray you and you’ll pronounce a vowel like somebody arguing in a Wawa parking lot.

Cristopher Sánchez broke a 115-year-old Phillies record this week by extending his scoreless innings streak to 44⅔ innings, surpassing Grover Cleveland Alexander and continuing what has quietly become one of the most dominant pitching stretches in baseball.

And maybe the most impressive part is that none of this even feels fluky anymore.

Every fifth day, Sánchez just casually walks out there and throws seven shutout innings while barely appearing emotionally affected by anything happening around him.

Meanwhile, the rest of Philadelphia sports exists in a constant state of psychological warfare.

The Phillies also seem fully aware they’re watching something special. Bryce Harper immediately secured the baseball after Sánchez broke the franchise record, and teammates were grinning through half the outing waiting for history to happen.

And the Manny Machado moment — where Machado nearly ended the streak with one swing before smiling at Sánchez — somehow made the whole thing feel even cooler.

At this point, Sánchez taking the mound has become one of the few reliably peaceful experiences available to Philadelphia sports fans.

Which honestly may be his greatest accomplishment of all.

Spirit Airlines leaving Philadelphia earlier this month inspired a lot of jokes from people who had clearly never desperately needed a $79 flight to Florida.

Now Allegiant is moving in with low-cost routes out of PHL, including flights to Knoxville, Tenn., Des Moines, Iowa, and Grand Rapids, Mich. Which may not exactly scream “dream vacation,” but the bigger point is this: Airports actually do need budget airlines.

Because the second that Spirit disappeared, everybody immediately remembered that not all travelers are trying to spend $640 to visit relatives for a weekend.

Sure, Spirit was chaotic. Every experience felt one minor inconvenience away from becoming a viral TikTok, and a carry-on bag somehow required advanced financial planning. But it also got people places cheaply.

And Allegiant already announcing Florida flights for Phillies spring training season tells you exactly who this is for: people willing to endure almost anything if the flight is cheap enough and lands somewhere warm.

Quinta Brunson’s campaign to help fund field trips for Philadelphia public school students has already raised more than $154,000 in just a few months, reported Axios, which is both genuinely cool and a very Philly use of celebrity influence.

The Abbott Elementary creator launched the campaign in December with a goal of raising $200,000, which would establish an ongoing endowment to help schools pay for trips in future years. Nearly 400 people and organizations have already contributed.

And it feels very aligned with everything people like about Brunson in the first place. She’s one of the few celebrities whose connection to Philadelphia still feels authentic and specific, especially when it comes to public schools.

Anybody who grew up in Philly schools knows field trips were treated like major events. The Franklin Institute. The zoo. Constitution Center. Missing an entire day of class and sitting next to your friends on the bus.

So the fact that Brunson looked at the district’s problems and decided helping kids experience those moments was worth investing in feels especially meaningful.

Roxanne — the experimental Queen Village restaurant shut down by the city for operating without a food license or health inspections — is now taking reservations again despite still having an active cease-operations order posted on the door.

To recap, the Michelin-recommended restaurant had apparently been operating for more than a year without proper licenses or inspections, first in Bella Vista and then in Queen Village.

That is objectively wild. But the entire saga also feels extremely Philly: Michelin hype, performance-art food, confusing city permitting rules, public panic, and diners still aggressively trying to book a Resy anyway.

Now the city appears willing to let Roxanne go through the licensing process normally, meaning the restaurant may genuinely reopen soon.

Which raises the question: What will make Philly stop wanting a reservation there?