by Randy LoBasso | Feb 28, 2018 | Featured, Vision Zero
The Bicycle Coalition recently met with the Philadelphia Parking Authority to talk about ways we could better work with them to enforce illegal parking in bike lanes, install better bicycle parking, and take fresh looks at where, and how, their officers could patrol... by Randy LoBasso | Feb 28, 2018 | Featured, Vision Zero
In a move the Bicycle Coalition has been advocating for several years, the City of Philadelphia recently announced it has hired a second paving crew to help pave our streets. The paving crew will likely begin this spring, when 2018 paving season starts. As... by Bicycle Coalition | Feb 27, 2018 | Featured, Uncategorized, Vision Zero
By Kyle Hearing Since 2014, the Bicycle Coalition has been urging the City of Philadelphia to adopt Vision Zero. In early 2015, it called for Philadelphia to adopt a Vision Zero policy in its Better Mobility mayoral platform. In the fall of 2015, BCGP hosted the first... by Leonard Bonarek | Feb 26, 2018 | Biking in Philly, Biking the Suburbs, Connecting Greater Philadelphia Bicycle Network, Featured, The Circuit, Vision Zero
Hot off the presses: As also reported in PlanPhilly, Governor Wolf just announced today that 35 municipalities will receive funds from the Automated Red Light Enforcement (ARLE) fund to improve traffic safety, including 22 in our PA region. The funding will support... by Randy LoBasso | Feb 23, 2018 | Crash, Featured, Vision Zero
On Friday, members of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia held a memorial for the still unidentified victim of a traffic crash on the 4700 block of Whitaker Avenue in the Feltonville section of North Philadelphia. The crash occurred on February 17 while the... by Leonard Bonarek | Feb 23, 2018 | Biking the Suburbs, Connecting Greater Philadelphia Bicycle Network, The Circuit, Vision Zero
Maybe you haven’t noticed yet, but we’ve stepped up our game in the suburbs in the past year. With new funding from the William Penn Foundation, we’ve been able to hire our “new” Regional Planner Leonard Bonarek, our first full-time...