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Driver Verbally Assaults Cyclist for Riding with Kids
On Wednesday, local cyclist Kate Mundie uploaded a video to YouTube which, sadly, shows what some bicyclists have to go through on Philly’s streets. While bicycling with her children in her cargo bike on the 1200 block of South 11th Street on Wednesday, Mundie spotted...
People For Bikes Sets Up TIGER Grant Petition
Money sometimes seems to get lost in the halls of our nation’s Capitol. This appears to be the case for next year’s round of TIGER grant awards which have been an integral part of revitalizing not just our nation’s transportation infrastructure, but also that of...
Safe Routes Coordinator Waffiyyah Murray on the Passing of Deb Hubsmith
We are very saddened by the recent news of Deb Hubsmith’s passing. Hubsmith founded the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, the organization under which Safe Routes Philly was founded, and served as its director for nine years. She was a dedicated advocate for...
Let’s Get to Work on Washington Avenue
Earlier this summer, almost 400 Bicycle Coalition members, supporters and advocates told Mayor Michael Nutter, Council Members Squilla and Johnson, and the Streets Department that the status quo is not acceptable. Washington Avenue is dangerous. It needs to be made...
Tattooed Mom’s Robert Perry on Bike Parking, Neighborhood Advocacy, and Washington Avenue
Lots of bars and restaurants on South Street have come and gone with the times, but Tattooed Mom at 530 South Street has been a mainstay of the corridor since it opened in 1997. And lots of you know that owner Robert Perry has been advocating with Philly’s bicycling...
This Week in Bicycling: Our Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to our new Friday roundup column. Today, and every Friday, we’ll be rounding up the most important local bicycle news we came across this week. Commuting by Car Down. The U.S. Census released a new report this week showing that, in the Greater Philadelphia...
Eagles Give Cadence Youth All Star Treatment
On Wednesday, 20 exemplary members of Cadence Youth Cycling, four Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia staff members, and two generous donors from Capital One got a chance to join the Philadelphia Eagles at training camp. While there, the athletes got to meet...
Commuting by Car Fell 2.7 Percent in Philadelphia Region
According to a new U.S. Census Bureau report, Philadelphia and many other cities are experiencing a decline in automobile commuting. According to the report, titled “Who Drives to Work?” a whopping 85.8 percent of American workers still commute to work in a car—and...
York Street Improvements a Welcome Change for Riverwards
East York Street, which sort of may divide Fishtown and Kensington, or Fishtown and Olde Richmond, depending on whom you talk to, is getting some welcomed safety improvements this month—and they can’t come too soon. After a recent meeting between the Fishtown...
Latest Hit-and-Run Death is a Study in Victim-Blaming
The tape had barely been cleared from outside Police Headquarters when an all-too-typical question arose in Philly media: Was 46-year-old science radio show host Joseph Heard to blame for the hit-and-run crash that killed him? Seriously. This question was asked, and...
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