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What does a bicycle do for you? Does it get you to work or the park? Is it the way you connect with friends or family? Is it how you unwind on the weekend?
No matter how you use a bicycle, we are working to make your ride better. Since 1972, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia has been our region's best advocate for bicycling and bicyclists' rights.
Beginning in August 2012, we started leading 5 mile rides through a section of Philadelphia. Each ride features a different theme or route highlighting bicycling infrastructure or other programmatic pieces that we are working to improve.
The idea of a region connected by trails is one that the Bicycle Coalition has been working towards since we were founded 40 years ago. The Circuit will make our region stronger by providing a place for healthy transportation and recreation, connecting our communities to greenspace, and making our neighborhoods more attractive places to live and work.
Explore our brand new trail website on ConnectTheCircuit.org and help connect the Circuit by signing our petition!
Do you want your community to be bicycle friendly? BCGP has three presentations to educate and inform interested persons to advocate for better facilities, new trails and safer routes to school.
If you want to install your own bike rack at your own expense, you need a permit (no fee required!). All instructions for obtaining a permit from the Streets Department are here. This fact sheet provides names of bike rack manufacturers.
After four years of work, a final ped/bike plan for the entire City was adopted by the City Planning Commission on June 12, 2012.
The 106 page report can be downloaded here
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Safe Streets, Healthy Neighborhoods works with residents to identify changes to neighborhood streets that make walking, biking and taking transit safer and more enjoyable. Overcoming barriers to getting around your neighborhood helps fight obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and stress through the regular physical activity of walking and biking to school, the store, the park and other neighborhood destinations.
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