by Sarah Clark Stuart | Mar 24, 2022 | Biking in Philly, News, Vision Zero
Last weekend, PennDOT reopened the Chestnut Street Bridge, restoring one of the five bridges that connect West Philadelphia to Center City and vastly improving the bicycle connection. Closed since August 2019, the Chestnut Street Bridge is now re-opened with a brand...
by Sarah Clark Stuart | Feb 25, 2022 | Biking in Philly, News, Vision Zero
Back in 2012, the Bicycle Coalition put out the concept proposal of a connected high quality bikeway network called “Safe Streets, Healthy Neighborhoods”, which included the idea of high quality protected bike lanes on Market, Walnut and Chestnut Streets...
by Randy LoBasso | Jun 29, 2021 | News
Good news, everyone. The Schuylkill Banks Trail at Chestnut Street, which had been closed since February 2021, is reopening on Friday, July 2nd. The trail under the Chestnut Street Bridge received its first layer of asphalt this morning! The next layer goes down...
by Randy LoBasso | Dec 11, 2019 | Biking in Philly
No one likes riding their bicycle through trash, plastic bags, and leaves. But that’s exactly what everyone traveling along the 4400 block of the Chestnut Street protected bike lane was enduring. So the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia planned a cleanup of...
by John Boyle | Jun 19, 2019 | Biking in Philly, Connecting Greater Philadelphia Bicycle Network, Vision Zero
The Chestnut Street bridge will close — completely — for a one-year period beginning in mid-July. And in preparation for this closure, for the first time ever, PennDOT is working on a full-scale 3/4 mile bicycle detour that will include continuously-marked...
