by Lor Song | Mar 2, 2022 | Bike Share, Biking in Philly, News
As the weather begins to get warmer, so does our need to get on a bicycle and explore new adventures! The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, in collaboration with the Better Bike Share Partnership (BBSP), has new seasonal jobs and volunteer opportunities...
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...
by Sarah Clark Stuart | Jan 25, 2022 | News, Biking in Philly, Biking the Region, Featured, Vision Zero
In pursuit of our mission to promote bicycling as a safe and fun way for anyone to get around Greater Philadelphia, we advocate for consequential and equitable policy changes at the local, regional and state level. In 2022, the Bicycle Coalition and Transit Forward...
by Patrick Monahan | Jan 14, 2022 | Biking in Philly, News
In August 2021, when the City of Philadelphia reopened MLK Jr. Drive to cars, it announced in its press release that they’d be looking into continuing weekend closures towards the end of the year. We talked to the Kenney Administration and Council staff to...