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Bicycle Coalition Supports SEPTA Safety Awareness Day
Wednesday, May 4 is SEPTA Safety Awareness Day, and this year, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia and Indego Bike Share are joining forces with the Authority to highlight many of the precautions SEPTA drivers and cyclists can take to remain safe. During...
Our Take on SEPTA Budget; Public Comments Open Until May 5
SEPTA released its proposed $548.63 million Fiscal Year 2017 Capital Budget and Fiscal Years 2017-2028. SEPTA receives 60 percent in funding from the State of Pennsylvania, 38 percent in federal funds and 2 percent in local funding from the five Pennsylvania counties...
Cadence Youth Athlete Allen Williams Selected As Gates Millennium Scholar
Over the past week, we at the Bicycle Coalition have been quietly celebrating the accomplishment of Cadence Youth Cycling athlete Allen Williams. Williams was just selected as a Gates Millennium Scholar, a prestigious grant funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates...
Women Bike PHL Launches Spring Fundraising Campaign!
In the Spring of 2013, I (Katie Monroe) founded Women Bike PHL, a Bicycle Coalition program to help close the bicycling gender gap in Philadelphia. According to our annual bike counts, only about a third of bicyclists in Philadelphia are women. There are a lot of...
Penn Doctor Meets with Cadence All-Stars Ahead of Million Dollar Bike Ride
On Friday April 15th, Dr. James Wilson of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania joined Cadence Youth Cycling All-Stars at one of their weekly practices. The CYC All-Stars are composed of athletes from the seven site teams who have...
Bike To School Day is Wednesday, May 4
Safe Routes Philly has held a Bike To School Day event every year since 2012 – and 2016’s is set to be the biggest ever. Safe Routes Philly, supported by the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health and a National Highway Safety Administration grant awarded to...
Biking with Byko — For a Good Cause
Alexandria Schneider came to me in December with a pretty crazy idea: She wanted to put Stu Bykofsky on a bike. And she wanted my help. Bykofsky is the Philadelphia Daily News columnist who has been a bit, well, negative toward bicyclists and bike lanes in the past,...
What We’ll Be Testifying For in City Council
Budget season is upon us. This can be a stressful but exciting time if you’re closely watching and participating in the process. This year, the Bicycle Coalition has a list of priorities we’re advocating for, and will be testifying in favor of on May 4. There is $4.1...
New Podcast: Bike Share 1-Year Anniversary
On April 24, Indego Bike Share (Philadelphia's public bike sharing system) turned one year old! It's been a very successful program over the past year, and it's only getting more popular. For this week's episode, Randy speaks to Russell Meddin, the person largely...
DVRPC Releases Initial Results from its Regional Cyclical Bike Counts Program
In 2014 the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) initiated a cyclical bicycle count program. Bicycle counters were placed at selected locations for one week throughout the nine county region on different types of bicycle facilities. Now, the DVRPC has...
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