by Sarah Clark Stuart | Mar 24, 2022 | News, Biking in Philly, 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 | Mar 11, 2022 | Biking in Philly, Biking the Region, Vision Zero
Last November, Representative Brett Miller (R-Lancaster) introduced (for the second time) a bill that would define “vulnerable highway users” to include: (1) A pedestrian, excluding a personal delivery device (2) A bicyclist (3) An individual on a...
by Sarah Clark Stuart | Feb 25, 2022 | News, Biking in Philly, 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 Sarah Clark Stuart | Feb 25, 2022 | Biking in Philly
oTIS is going to conduct a spring “round up” for abandoned bicycles. Here’s a map of what they have so far on their list. We mapped “open” 311 reports of abandoned bikes from 2016-2020. If you know of a bike that is not on this map,...
by Sarah Clark Stuart | Feb 23, 2022 | News, Biking in Philly, Vision Zero
On Monday, March 1, 6:30pm, at the Christian Street YMCA, Philadelphia’s Office of Transportation Infrastructure and Sustainability (oTIS) will reveal their final plan for re-configuring the pavement markings of Washington Avenue from Gray’s Ferry to 4th...
