by Randy LoBasso | Jun 23, 2017 | Biking in Philly, Connecting Greater Philadelphia Bicycle Network, Featured
All these years later, two Philly neighborhoods will get protected bike lanes. On Thursday, Council passed two bicycle-related bills—one for a parking protected bike lane on West Chestnut Street between 45th and 34th Streets; and one for a raised center-lane protected...
by Nicole Brunet | Jul 17, 2024 | News
The Streets Department is in the process of finishing the 48th Street traffic improvement project that includes a northbound parking protected bike lane from Kingsessing Avenue to Chestnut Street. This is an important connection to the protected bike lanes on Chestnut...
by Sarah Clark Stuart | Feb 10, 2021 | News, Biking in Philly, Biking the Region, The Circuit
The Bicycle Coalition’s suggested detour around the SRT trail closureStarting on February 15th, the Schuylkill River Trail will be closed under the Chestnut Street Bridge for three months. Schuylkill Banks has been working for several years to make this project...
by Randy LoBasso | Jan 24, 2020 | Vision Zero
For the third time in the last three months, members of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia staff and volunteers set out to do something extremely simple and satisfying. We picked up some brooms, shovels, and gigantic paper bags to clean some bike lanes. We...
by Randy LoBasso | Dec 16, 2019 | Biking in Philly
Maybe you heard we organized a cleanup of the protected bike lane at 45th and Chestnut last week? Well, we did! And, in the Facebook discussion board for that cleanup, local bike shop Transport Cycles asked if we’d planned on cleaning up the new 2-way protected bike...