by Bicycle Coalition | May 7, 2014 | Biking in Philly, Featured
One of the challenges of the better bicycling game is figuring out where people ride. We conduct our annual bike counts, and organizations like DVRPC can put down counters on select streets, but these give us snapshots at best. Philadelphians take thousands of bike... by Bicycle Coalition | Apr 30, 2014 | Biking in Philly, Featured, Women Bike PHL
May is Bike Month! Yes, bikes work year round. We don’t celebrate “Shoes Month” after all. But we suppose at some point May wasn’t anybody’s month, and Bikes saw an opportunity for naming rights, and now here we are. Here is a guide to... by Bicycle Coalition | Apr 21, 2014 | Biking in Philly, Featured, Women Bike PHL
This year’s National Bike Challenge is nearly here! Registration is open at nationalbikechallenge.org, where you can set up teams and workplaces and log practice miles. The challenge begins for real on May 1st, and runs through September 30th. (Miles recorded... by Bicycle Coalition | Apr 10, 2014 | Biking in Philly, Featured
The Parking Authority has given us the preliminary results of the #unblockbikelanes Twitter campaign and has promised us additional measures to improve the enforcement of parking restrictions in bike lanes. This past December, we helped the Philadelphia Parking... by Bicycle Coalition | Feb 19, 2014 | Biking in Philly, Featured
The University Bike Collective which launched last year is undertaking its first public campaign – to identify areas in need of more bike parking. They announced the initiative February 14th on their Facebook page: In an effort to make biking more convenient in... by Bicycle Coalition | Feb 14, 2014 | Biking in Philly
Philly has, at times, flirted with something of an inferiority complex. Various organizations and people have attempted to address it, using popular contemporary means of mass messaging. In the 1970s, that was billboards: Today, it’s Twitter. The Philly...