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Range of Tales at Women Bike PHL ‘Bike Stories’
On Friday, August 19 Women Bike PHL, with the collaboration of Neighborhood Bike Works, hosted an event called Bike Stories. This was an open mic-style sharing event for people tell stories about bikes and their experience on bicycles! The range of story tellers was...
What They’re Saying about the Better Bike Share Partnership’s Learn to Ride Class
The Better Bike Share Partnership team at the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia holds 2-hour class Learn to Ride classes for ages 16 and up. Learn to Ride classes help participants learn how to balance, pedal, start, stop, and steer a bike. As well as how to...
When the Sierra Club Met Frank Rizzo: How the Schuylkill River Trail Took Shape
Written forty years ago, Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo wrote a letter to the Sierra Club documenting his support of what is now the Schuylkill River Trail. That letter, recently provided to the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia by Mike Stokes of the...
Results from Azavea’s ‘Summer of Maps’ work with Bicycle Coalition
All summer 2016, local software company Azavea has been working with the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, creating an interactive map image to determine whether traffic crashes in the city...
Podcast Series: Indego Bike Share 1-Year Anniversary
Indego is Philadelphia’s bike sharing system and it turned one year old in April 2016. However, it took almost ten years for bike share to come to Philly. It all started with one person’s trip to France and his and others' battle with the city to bring bike share to...
Podcast Series: Pedal Posse Divas
Stephanie Ford is the founder of Pedal Posse Divas, a three-year old, all women’s cycling group in Philadelphia. Originally Ford would post of Facebook, telling her friends when she would be going on bike rides. A group formed,and 6-8 friends came up with the name,...
Sullivan’s Bridge Opens to Large Fanfare
An estimated 300 people showed up to the opening of the new Sullivan Bridge late last week, a reception that was more than two decades in the making. Cyclists, hikers, politicians, and interested parties were on hand at Valley Forge National Park to witness the...
A New Bike/Ped Bridge Two Decades in the Making
Twenty-three years later, our region is finally getting its bridge back. On Friday, bicyclists will finally have a real bridge trail between the Schuylkill River Trail and Valley Forge National Historical Park when Sullivan’s Bridge, a bicycle/pedestrian bridge over...
The Bicycle Coalition was Nominated for a #SustainPHL Award!
GreenPhillyBlog is putting together the first Annual Sustain PHL awards this year, a “celebration for sustainability visionaries to unsung heroes making a difference in their communities” – and, we’re very honored to say, the Bicycle Coalition has been...
Save the Date: Bicycle Coalition Gala Fundraiser is 9/29
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia’s annual Gala is our biggest event of the year, and helps support our programs and initiatives – connecting our region’s trail network with better bicycling infrastructure, providing opportunities for young people through...
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