by Randy LoBasso | Apr 12, 2019 | Bike Share, Featured
We first met Ella Best when she joined us on community rides with our 2015 Ambassador, Kim Smith, and later joined the Better Bike Share team as a community ambassador. Ella, a community organizer in Point Breeze, started the group Don’t Shoot, I want a Future which... by Randy LoBasso | Apr 10, 2019 | Biking in Philly, Biking the Suburbs, Featured, Vision Zero
As supporters of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia know, a bill was recently introduced in Harrisburg to amend the motor vehicle code to allow for “car-parked” protected bike lanes and protected pedestrian plazas in Pennsylvania. And Bicycle... by Randy LoBasso | Apr 9, 2019 | Featured, Vision Zero
On April 30, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, Families for Safe Streets Greater Philadelphia, and the Vision Zero Alliance will travel to the state Capitol to advocate for four pieces of legislation: 1) Painted curb protected bike lanes 2) Radar for... by Randy LoBasso | Apr 5, 2019 | Featured, Vision Zero
Pennsylvania State Senators Lisa Boscola and John Sabatina held a policy hearing on pedestrian safety at Holy Family University in Northeast Philadelphia on Friday morning, as a way to study what can be done at the state level to make Philadelphia safer for... by Randy LoBasso | Apr 2, 2019 | Biking in Philly, Featured, Vision Zero
The City of Philadelphia installed protected bike lanes on South Street, between 27th and 22nd, and a portion of 27th Street, over the weekend. The new protection will make people who ride bikes safer coming off of, and getting onto, the South Street Bridge. The...