by John Boyle | Oct 18, 2018 | Biking in Philly, Featured, research, Vision Zero
According to the Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (oTIS), the City of Philadelphia added and improved 33 miles of on-road bike infrastructure (bike lanes and sharrows) in 2017. Included in this number are approximately 4 miles of new bike lanes and... by Randy LoBasso | Aug 15, 2018 | Biking in Philly, Featured
If you’ve ridden along Schuylkill Banks within the last couple weeks, you may have noticed something. The years-long sinkhole that’s plagued the turn underneath the Chestnut Street Bridge has been covered up! This is good news, as the bottleneck effect of... by Randy LoBasso | Jul 2, 2018 | Biking in Philly, Featured, The Circuit
In March 2017, we told you about Hub and Spoke, our vision of a high quality bicycle network for Philadelphia, allowing for easy access to Greater Center City via North, South, and West Philadelphia. The concept is that Philadelphia needs a high quality connected... by Randy LoBasso | Jun 15, 2018 | Featured, Vision Zero
As part of the city’s Vision Zero plan, a new 2-way bike lane—which is partially protected—was installed recently on Parkside Avenue in West Philadelphia, creating a more organized street, safer for bicycling and walking in that section of the city. The project, which... by Bicycle Coalition | Mar 27, 2018 | Featured, Uncategorized, Vision Zero
By Kyle Hearing This week, our ongoing examination of Philadelphia’s Vision Zero Action Plan is focusing on engineering. In many ways, engineering is the most straightforward aspect of Vision Zero; guidelines (such as those published by NACTO, AASHTO or the...