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Meet our 2018 Gala Honorees
On Thursday, October 4, 2018, the Bicycle Coalition will be celebrating three of the Greater Philadelphia region's champions for the cycling community at our Fifth Annual Gala and Awards Dinner. It's going to be a great party, and we'd love to have you there to help...
Academy Road: Still Dangerous After Road Work
By Kate Norris and Randy LoBasso Over Labor Day weekend, this past Sunday, the driver of a Ford F-150 hit and killed a women walking to or waiting for the bus on the 10900 block of Academy Rd. The person driving the car hit her at excessive speed, fled the scene of...
Pa. Municipalities Can Be Sued for Causing Harm While Illegally Parked
Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Jason Laughlin recently reported that if someone is killed or hurt due to an illegally-parked public vehicle in the right of way, the municipality is legally at fault. As noted in the article: The Aug. 21 ruling shifted a 30-year...
Time to Report Those Abandoned Bikes
Each fall, we ask our members and supporters to report abandoned bikes that have been left to die on bike racks and posts around the city. Abandoned bikes are forms of blight in the city, and the more of us who report them, the cleaner the city. Here’s how it’s...
Bicycle Coalition and AARP PA to Host Vision Zero Listening Sessions
Over the coming months, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia and our partner, AARP PA, will host a series of listening sessions throughout West and North Philadelphia in order to gain a better understanding of the traffic issues local residents face in those...
NJ Trail Funding Will Be Wasted if We Don’t Take Action
Do you want New Jersey to have more miles of connected walking and bicycling trails? Sure you do. Unfortunately, due to inefficient management, the state is actually on the verge of losing funding it's already received for Circuit Trails and other bicycle and...
Throwback Thursday: Bicycle Coalition Youth Cycling Sojourn on the GAP Trail
From August 13th - 17th, the Bicycle Coalition Youth Cycling (BCYC) All Star Tour Team biked from Pittsburgh, PA to Cumberland, MD on the longest Sojourn yet. [video width="720" height="1280" mp4="/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IMG_3102.mp4"...
Northwest Philly and Lower Merion Circuit Trails Open House in September
Have you been wondering about the status of various trail and Schuylkill River or Canal-related projects that are in progress or being planned on the Circuit in NW Philly and Lower Merion Township? Come learn about the Circuit Trail projects that are being managed by...
PennDOT’s 5-Year Paving Plan Is Here
In recent years there has been significant interest in improving bike infrastructure in Philadelphia's PA suburbs, where many roads that would be suitable for the addition of bike lanes are maintained by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT). The...
Mercer County: Your Long Wait is Over
On Monday August 27, Don Pillsbury came by the office to be confirmed as our Affiliate Chair for Mercer County. This was particularly exciting for us as we now have a Chair in all eight of the suburban counties in our region for the first time in BCGP's 46-year...
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