🚨 ACTION ITEMS

🚲 Parking-Protected Bike Lane Petition

Parking-protected bike lanes are a great way to make our bikes lanes safer and lower stress, but they are illegal in PA! The Bicycle Coalition is fighting for their legalization. Sign their petition to show your support for safer bike lanes!

🚫 Grays Ferry Is Not a Parking Lot

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is proposing a 1,000-vehicle parking garage at 30th and Grays Ferry Avenue. This garage would be over 70 feet tall, reserved for employees, and would require a separate shuttle service. Sign our petition telling CHOP: Don't Treat Grays Ferry as a Parking Lot

🛣️ Stop I-95 Expansion

PennDOT is planning to expand I-95 in Center City and South Philly by adding lanes and new ramps. This will threaten the well-being of our neighborhoods by worsening air quality, increasing noise pollution, harming our access to the waterfront, and destroying sports facilities. To make matters worse, PennDOT has been deceitful about its engagement efforts.

Join us in telling PennDOT that highway expansion has no place in the core of Philadelphia by signing our petition.

EVENTS

Transit for All PA! - State transit funding, updates from Harrisburg, and HOW WE'LL WIN
Tuesday, July 29th, 5:30 – 7pm | Virtual
Attend the virtual meeting to connect with transit advocates across the state and learn what has happened in Harrisburg so far and what's next.

Plaque Dedication for Mario D’Adamo III Esq.
August 2nd, 10:00 am - 11:30 am | FDR Park Skatepark
Join the family of Mario D’Adamo III Esq. on the 2nd Anniversary of his fatal crash to honor his memory with a plaque dedication.

Discussion with Author of "Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy"
Saturday, August 2nd @7pm | The Ethical Society, 1906 Rittenhouse Square
Paul Prescod will be hosting Pelle Dragsted, a member of the Danish Parliament, for a discussion about Dragsted's new book and democratic socialism in the Nordic countries.

All Out to Ardmore Ride
Saturday, August 9th, 6pm meet, 6:30pm roll | Art Museum Steps

FTWNB Urbanist Meetup
August 14, 6:00pm – 8pm | Triple Bottom Brewing, 915 Spring Garden St
Calling all Femme, Trans, Women, and Non-Binary (FTWNB) urbanists! We want to create a space that's inviting and safe for non-cis men to participate and chat about Philadelphia's urbanist issues important to you!

2025 Northwest Schuylkill River Trails Summit
Saturday, September 27th at 9:30AM | Venice Island Performing Arts & Recreation Center, 7 Lock St
The Bicycle Coalition will be hosting an exploration of current and future trail projects in Northwest Philadelphia and Lower Merion Township. Following the presentations, there will be facilitated discussions covering maintenance, programming, and advocacy to increase expansion of the Circuit Trails network.

WHAT WE'RE READING

🏙️ HOUSING & LAND USE

🌳 PUBLIC SPACE

🚌 TRANSIT

• PhillyVoice / Despite SEPTA's budget cliff, Roosevelt Boulevard subway backers seek path to Northeast Philly extension

• Inquirer.com / A day on SEPTA’s 31 bus, one of dozens that may soon be cut

• Niskanen Center / Making federal transit dollars work: Two reforms for better value

• Inquirer.com / Canvassers have a message for Bucks County SEPTA riders: It’s not too late to save your train

• The Philadelphia Citizen / Guest Commentary: SEPTA, a View from the Inside

• Inquirer.com / A plan to help SEPTA emerges from the GOP state Senate, with no funding attached

• Transportation For America / Dragging the federal transportation system into the 21st century

🚲 MOBILITY

• Inquirer.com / How a simple change to your car can help make roads safer for all | Editorial

• 6abc Philadelphia / Driver sentenced after pleading guilty to hitting, killing Philadelphia physician in bike lane

• The New York Times / Drivers vs. Cyclists: A Battle for the Streets in Canada’s Largest City

• Electrek / If you think electric bikes are bad, there’s a much bigger menace hitting our roads

• Bloomberg.com / The High Costs of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ New Car Loan Deduction