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The latest news from Philadelphia’s active transportation advocacy scene – and how you can get involved!
Bike Share Open House—today!
More than 5,000 Philadelphians submitted 10,535 online, text and paper surveys about potential bike share stations between Sept. 17 and Oct. 20, according to the Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities. That’s good. And this week, MOTU and representatives from...
Want More Bike Parking at Love Park?
Love Park is being redesigned. Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, the Fairmount Park Conservancy and PennPraxis want your help and input on making it happen, so they’re hoping you show up to a meeting on December 10 with something to say. During an initial...
Delaware County Bikes Meets November 18th
If you would like to learn more about some exciting developments affecting cycling in Delaware County and meet others who are concerned with improving bicycling infrastructure in the County, you are encouraged to attend tomorrow night's "Delaware County Bikes" meeting...
Wet Leaves in Bike Lanes
It’s autumn. That means the leaves are turning some awesome colors, falling from their trees, getting rained on and potentially causing horrendous crashes on Philly streets. Wet leaves—whether they’re coming straight from overhanging branches or being raked into the...
Better Mobility 2015 meeting highlights Vision Zero, protected bike lanes
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia held a listening session on Monday, Nov. 10, to detail the draft of Better Mobility 2015, a series of recommendations the Coalition and several other groups intend to give to the next group of candidates for mayor of...
SEPTA announces big plans at Philly Bike Expo
A representative at SEPTA announced this weekend they’d begin taking new, improved action steps to make the South Broad concourse more bicycle-friendly and, therefore, much more awesome. At the Philly Bike Expo’s “Better Bike Share: Inclusivity and Accessibility in...
Thirteen Projects in SE PA Win $7.85M in Statewide TAP Funds
Fifty-six projects to improve "transportation alternatives" were awarded $33 million in federal funds by PennDOT today. The full list of all awards is here. Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, the 2012 federal transportation authorization act known as...
Your Philly Bike Expo Agenda
This weekend’s Philly Bike Expo is likely to be the biggest in the tradition’s young history. The two-day event at the Pennsylvania Convention Center is set to hook riders up with 16 separate events, 22 seminars and hundreds of exhibitors, from framebuilders to...
Germantown artist Dan Murphy creates new signs for BCGP
If you made it to one of our bike light giveaway events this week, you probably saw a few of the above signs welcoming you before our volunteers got to making your before dawn/after dusk rides a whole lot safer (and legal.) With that in mind, we wanted to give a...
Next Week: Give us your feedback on Better Mobility Philadelphia 2015
Come out to a listening session this coming Monday. More information available here.
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