by Sonja Bontrager | May 15, 2025 | Bike Month, Biking in Philly, News
2025’s Bike to Work & Wherever Day celebration, group ride, and press conference is sponsored by Independence Blue Cross. Thank you to the Penn Museum, Philly Bike Train, the Office of Multimodal Planning, Senator Saval, Council Members Squilla and Landau, Center...
by John Boyle | May 13, 2025 | Biking in Philly, Biking Outside The Region, Biking the Region, News, research, Scooters, The Circuit, Vision Zero
We are excited to announce the release of the I Bike PHL Fall 2024 Report. The report focuses on our Philadelphia bike counts, but also highlights new infrastructure across the 9-county region, census data, the status of micromobility and how better bike lanes...
by Nicole Brunet | May 9, 2025 | Biking in Philly, Crash, News, Vision Zero
On Thursday, May 8th at 8:15am a Jeff Ishibashi, 50, was riding a bike on Baltimore Avenue going east into the 58th St. intersection. At that time the driver of a Mack truck was also traveling east and made a right turn hitting and killing the bicyclist. This crash...
by John Boyle | Apr 21, 2025 | Biking in Philly, News
Change can be slow—but not this time, at least by Walnut Street Bridge standards! The journey from the Bicycle Coalition’s 1990 die-in protest at the bridge’s grand opening to today’s protected bike lane has been 35 years in the making, and the transformation is...
by John Boyle | Apr 18, 2025 | Biking in Philly, Connecting Greater Philadelphia Bicycle Network, News, Vision Zero, We Bike PHL
The City of Philadelphia is looking to make upgrades to Market St (between 23rd St and 15th St), JFK Boulevard (between 15th St and 20th St), and 20th St (between Market St and JFK Boulevard). This will include improving the bike lanes, installing more permanent...
by Nicole Brunet | Apr 16, 2025 | Biking in Philly, Vision Zero
In March, Mayor Parker released her second proposed City Operating and Capital Budgets. We combed through it with an eye for Vision Zero funding, and attended the April 2nd Streets and Services budget hearing to learn more. Recap: Last year’s budget included a...
