by Sarah Clark Stuart | Nov 14, 2022 | News, Vision Zero
Image is from World Day of Remembrance 2021. This year’s World Day of Remembrance will be on Sunday, November 20th at the intersection of Broad St., Germantown Ave., and Butler St. at 12:30pm. The Bicycle Coalition analyzed the 2022 fatality data as reported by...
by Elly Porter-Webb | Nov 8, 2022 | News, Biking in Philly, Vision Zero
It’s back to getting dark at 4:30pm, so Bicycle Coalition staff, volunteers and partners hit the streets for our Annual Bike Light Giveaway last night in North and South Philly. Between our locations at 11th and Washington, 13th and Cecil B. Moore and 29th and Girard,...
by Sarah Clark Stuart | Oct 11, 2022 | Vision Zero
After seven years of advocacy, the Philadelphia Police Department responded to numerous requests from Families for Safe Streets Greater Philadelphia and the Bicycle Coalition to abandon the name “Accident Investigation Division” and rename the unit Crash...
by Nicole Brunet | Oct 6, 2022 | Biking in Philly, Vision Zero
October 6, 2022 Vision Zero annual report shows 2021 traffic fatalities remain high PHILADELPHIA – On Thursday, October 6th, the City of Philadelphia released its annual Vision Zero report that shows that Philadelphia ended 2021 with 121 traffic fatalities. This...
by Nicole Brunet | Oct 3, 2022 | News, Biking in Philly, Vision Zero
We are happy to report that after several years of advocacy by the AARP-led Livable Communities Network and our Policy team, Philadelphia’s Vision Zero budget has increased for fiscal year 2023. Since 2020, the Bicycle Coalition, along with AARP and the Livable...
by Nicole Brunet | Sep 23, 2022 | News, Biking in Philly, Crash, Vision Zero
We are so excited to hear that the City of Philadelphia is going to conduct a pilot of expanded residential sanitation pick up times. Since November of 2017, when Emily Fredricks was killed by the driver of a private sanitation truck early on a weekday morning, we...