by Sarah Clark Stuart | Feb 10, 2023 | News
Based on 311 submissions, Philadelphia has 700 abandoned bicycles lying around, taking up room on bike racks and being otherwise ugly. The Office of Transportation, Infrastructure & Sustainability (oTIS) and the Streets Department are looking for...
by Sarah Clark Stuart | Jan 30, 2023 | Biking in Philly, Crash, News, Vision Zero
This is a grim development for Philadelphia. Almost as many bicyclists have been killed in the last 30 days as in all of 2022. In all of 2022, four bicyclists were killed. By the 27th day in January 2023, three bicyclists were killed on Philadelphia’s streets...
by Sarah Clark Stuart | Jan 25, 2023 | Biking in Philly, Crash, News, Vision Zero
On Sunday, January 22nd, 43 year-old Savoun So who was walking across Oregon Avenue at 5:40pm, and 31 year old Edgardo Rosario was on his bicycle on N. Howard St. at 8:33pm were killed by two separate drivers who struck them, leaving them to die on...
by Sarah Clark Stuart | Jan 24, 2023 | News, Vision Zero
As an outgrowth of the $5M Route for Change study that the City prepared with a federal RAISE planning grant during Mayor Kenney’s first term (read the 2021 final report here), U.S. Senator Bob Casey successfully advocated for a major grant from the U.S. DOT to...
by Sarah Clark Stuart | Jan 10, 2023 | News, Vision Zero
We reviewed the Philadelphia Police Crash Investigative Division (CID) data from 2022 and here’s what we found. We compared the 2022 data reported by the CID to the data reported by PennDOT in previous years. It should be noted that PennDOT takes a year to...
