🚨 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

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!

Market St. Bike Ride in Support of Local Businesses During Bike Lane Construction
September 6th at 10am | 2nd and Market (start and end)
Philly Bike Action is holding a relaxed-pace 6 mile bike ride to support local Old City businesses along the Market St corridor through the construction of its protected/sidewalk-level bike lanes. Coffee/snacks provided beforehand and attendees are encouraged to get lunch from local businesses following the ride.

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.

Inaugural Montgomery and Bucks Counties Trail Summit
Saturday, Oct. 11, 10 a.m. to 12pm | Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust
The Circuit Trails, Bucks County Planning Commission, East Coast Greenway, Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, National Memorial Trail and Montgomery County Planning Commission are hosting the inaugural trail summit including presentations, networking opportunities, and field trips.

WHAT WE'RE READING

🏙️ HOUSING & LAND USE

🌳 PUBLIC SPACE

🚌 TRANSIT

• Inquirer.com / The Pa. Senate is back on Tuesday and poised to pass a short-term budget. Will it have transit funding?

• The Philadelphia Citizen / Holding SEPTA Funding Hostage

• Inquirer.com / Philadelphia can choose to lead on public transit — or be the first domino to fall | Opinion

• Inquirer.com / SEPTA supporters demand Senate Republicans finish the budget, fund transit before service cuts begin

• Pennsylvania Capital-Star / Pa. House holds a Sunday vote on transit funding as the consequences of a late budget loom • Pennsylvania Capital-Star

🚲 MOBILITY

• Billy Penn at WHYY / Philly Running Alliance aims to give running community a seat at the table

• The New York Times / Opinion | They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They’re Felons

• usa.streetsblog.org / Katie Wilson's Success in Seattle Shows Again that Urbanism Is A Winning Campaign Issue