by Nicole Brunet | Feb 1, 2023 | News, Vision Zero
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding targets high-crash sites in cities and counties; also supports the U.S. Department of Transportation’s comprehensive strategy to reduce roadway deaths, a crisis claiming more than 40,000 lives each year Today, U.S. Transportation...
by Sarah Clark Stuart | Jan 30, 2023 | Biking in Philly, Crash, News, Vision Zero
This is a grim development for Philadelphia. Almost as many bicyclists have been killed in the last 30 days as in all of 2022. In all of 2022, four bicyclists were killed. By the 27th day in January 2023, three bicyclists were killed on Philadelphia’s streets...
by Nicole Brunet | Jan 26, 2023 | Biking in Philly, Crash, News, Vision Zero
Over the past 6 months, the Bicycle Coalition has led a coalition of 10 organizations and drafted the 2023 Better Mobility Platform for mayoral candidates. We are in process of connecting with campaigns now but we wanted to start the conversation about mobility and...
by Sarah Clark Stuart | Jan 25, 2023 | Biking in Philly, Crash, News, Vision Zero
On Sunday, January 22nd, 43 year-old Savoun So who was walking across Oregon Avenue at 5:40pm, and 31 year old Edgardo Rosario was on his bicycle on N. Howard St. at 8:33pm were killed by two separate drivers who struck them, leaving them to die on...
by Sarah Clark Stuart | Jan 24, 2023 | News, Vision Zero
As an outgrowth of the $5M Route for Change study that the City prepared with a federal RAISE planning grant during Mayor Kenney’s first term (read the 2021 final report here), U.S. Senator Bob Casey successfully advocated for a major grant from the U.S. DOT to...