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Our Fight for Parking Protected Bike Lanes: A Setback, Not a Defeat
November 13th was the last day of the 2023-2024 PA legislative session and we saw the day come to a close without the passage of HB 1283 or SB 1147 further delaying the legalization of Parking Protected Bike Lanes across the commonwealth. While obviously this is not...
World Day of Remembrance 2024
On Sunday families of traffic crash victims, community members, and faith leaders gathered on World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims in Carroll Park to demand that decision-makers do more to reduce deadly hit-and-run and drunk driving crashes. In...
Dominique Jones is the second person in Philadelphia to be killed while riding a bicycle this year
On November 18th at 2pm – just one day after our World Day of Remembrance, on the 6th anniversary of the crash that killed Jayanna Powell – Dominique Jones was struck and killed by an intoxicated driver who attempted to flee the scene of a crash. Dominique will be the...
Recap: The 2024 Circuit Trails Semi-Annual Meeting
Photo by Sarah Clark Stuart On November 14th, members of the Circuit Trails Coalition held its semi-annual meeting at the AIM Academy in Conshohocken to understand the Coalition's strategic planning process, purpose, timeline and next steps as we look ahead to 2025. ...
Empowering Youth Leaders: Kicking Off a New Year for Our Youth Advisory Council (YAC)
We’re thrilled to announce the start of a new year for our Youth Advisory Council (YAC) and the eight passionate and dedicated youth ambassadors of BCYC who will serve on the council. Representing their peers, these young leaders are poised to make a powerful impact...
12th Annual Bike Light Giveaway: Spreading Joy and Safe Biking in Kensington, West Philly & South Philly
Spreading Joy and Safe Biking in Kensington, West Philly & South Philly It’s back to getting dark closer to 4:30pm, so Bicycle Coalition staff, volunteers and community partners hit the streets for our 12th Annual Bike Light Giveaway on Wednesday, November 6th, in...
Celebrating Our October Better Bike Share Partnership Classes and Rides
This October, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia (BCGP) Better Bike Share Partnership (BBSP), and Indego had the privilege of hosting an exciting series of Learn-to-Ride classes and community bike rides, aimed at promoting biking as an accessible and fun...
The World Day of Remembrance 2024 is Fast Approaching
We are just 10 days away from this year’s World Day of Remembrance. The theme of this year’s event is ‘Remember. Support. Act.’ We will take time to remember all who have been lost from traffic violence since last year’s World Day of Remembrance (11/19/23) with a...
Better Together! Our Incredible Volunteers and Their Impact
Want to join the Coalition as a volunteer? Fill out this interest form Last week, we had 22 volunteers at our offices to help prepare over 1,000 bike lights ahead of our annual giveaway, an effort we do to help all cyclists have the necessary equipment they need to...
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop Fighting for Better, Safer Bike Lanes
It’s been a busy Fall (and Summer) for our policy department. We’ve seen a lot of progress in our priority campaigns, including expanding the bike lane network, creating safer bike lanes free of parked cars, and movement on our campaign to legalize parking protected...
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