🚨 ACTION ITEMS

🚲 12th St Bike Lane

Philly Bike Action is advocating for safety improvements and an extension of the existing bike lane on 12th Street when a segment of the street is repaved later this year. Sign their petition here.

🚲 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

JUMPinar: Philly's H.O.M.E. Initiative
August 27th, 7:00 to 8:30 PM | 4701 Germantown Ave
Want to learn more about the City of Philadelphia's new HOME Initiative? Angela D. Brooks, the City's Chief Housing and Urban Development Officer, will discuss Mayor Parker's plan and how Jumpstarters will be involved.

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.

Bikeout 2025: Philly to Schwenksville
September 13 - 14 | Art Museum to Camp Kweebec
A celebration of Philadelphia's beautiful trails, this ride will travel from the Museum of Art along scenic waterways to a summer camp in Montgomery County.

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

• WHYY / Philadelphia’s most demolished street and what happens after the houses are gone

• Philadelphia Business Journal / Carl Dranoff plots next steps for $45M development at former McDonald's site

• CNN / Giving homeless people stable housing was federal policy for decades. Trump is ending it

• WHYY / In Camden and Atlantic City, health care systems are treating housing as a public health issue

🌳 PUBLIC SPACE

🚌 TRANSIT

• Inquirer.com / SEPTA cuts are moving forward, GM Scott Sauer says

• Inquirer.com / Not funding SEPTA could constitute a violation of the Pa. Constitution | Opinion

• Inquirer.com / How SEPTA service cuts impact real Philadelphians, in their own words

• jawntpass.com / A look at Philadelphia's Zero Fare program, two years in

• NBC10 Philadelphia / Protesters gather at Philly Sen. Joe Picozzi's office, demand funding for SEPTA

🚲 MOBILITY

• cbsnews.com / Judge's order could pause bike lane safety project on Spruce and Pine streets in Philadelphia

• Inquirer.com / A dangerous Philly street is getting safety improvements. Expect traffic delays until January

• NBC10 Philadelphia / States rethink long-held practice of setting speed limits based on how fast drivers travel