by Nicole Brunet | Apr 25, 2024 | Biking in Philly, Crash, News, Vision Zero
Earlier this month, family and friends of Mario D’Adamo III Esq, members of Families for Safe Streets, Greater Philadelphia, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, and Friends of FDR park came together to remember Mario D’Adamo on what would have been his 38th...
by Nicole Brunet | Apr 18, 2024 | News, Vision Zero
In March, Mayor Parker released her first proposed City Operating and Capital Budgets. We combed through it with an eye to Vision Zero funding, and attended the Streets and Services budget hearing last Wednesday, April 10th, to learn more. Unfortunately, apart from...
by Nicole Brunet | Apr 4, 2024 | News, Vision Zero
Even one traffic fatality is unacceptable — especially for a Vision Zero city — and yet Philadelphia ended 2023 with record high pedestrian and bicyclist deaths. No one wants this year to follow that terrible trend, and we’ve been closely monitoring...
by Nicole Brunet | Mar 29, 2024 | Biking in Philly, News, Vision Zero
City of Philadelphia Managing Director Adam Thiel delivers opening address at Vision Zero PHL 2024 conference. Photo by Chris Young. PHILADELPHIA- Elected officials, community leaders, city staff, safety advocates, engineers and planners came together for the 10th...
by Nicole Brunet | Mar 13, 2024 | News, Vision Zero
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia is excited to announce that Larry Shifflet, Deputy Secretary of PennDOT and Kristin Del Rossi, Commissioner of the Philadelphia Streets Department, will host the Keynote Conversation at the 2024 Vision Zero PHL Conference...
by Nicole Brunet | Mar 8, 2024 | News, Vision Zero
The above photo is from a June 8, 2023 interview discussing now-adopted legislation raising penalties for drifting (in a car) to $2,000.00 In February, Council Member Mike Driscoll introduced a bill to fine users, buyers, and sellers of license plate flipping devices....