Bike lanes
A few days after Christmas, a late-arriving gift from Santa Claus was received by the Friends of Pine and Spruce nonpartisan, nonprofit citizens’ advocacy group. Today it is announcing to its members that the Common Pleas Court on the last day of the year denied the city’s motion to
Bike lanes
Bochetto describes what happened as "legislation by ambush” that “is not only morally despicable, but illegal as well.”
Bike lanes
Year after year, over the last 15 years, the percentage of Philadelphians commuting by bike has hovered around 2%, irrespective of the growing number of bike lanes.
Bike lanes
FOPS President Lloyd Brotman said the group was energized by “a runaway city bureaucracy hell bent on installing concrete barriers along the full length of bike lanes.”
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FOPS has the will to fight the fight for everyone who feels abused by the city’s betrayal.
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“We’ve done everything possible to avoid this action – petitions, testimony, meetings, outreach – to reason with officials,” said Brotman.
Bike lanes
The war has moved from the broad expanse of the ocean to the small inlets along the shore. The battle is over to what extent the bicycle cult can dictate free movement to the lives of everyone else. Hearings on a bill to ban even momentary stopping in bike lanes
Bicycle Lanes
A Wednesday press release from the Mayor’s office touted two bills that would enhance public safety and quality of life. One was renaming Taney Street, which has no effect on public safety or quality of life. This is like the mayor’s dubious claim that the 76ers Arena would
Culture
Locked out, that’s what I was Thursday morning, locked out. Locked out of what, you ask? Out of the City Council meeting that was going to hear testimony on the insane idea to ban even momentarily stopping in bicycle lanes, a subject I wrote about it last month. Council
Bicycle Lanes
No one wants to see an unnecessary death — not a pedestrian, not a bicyclist, not a motorist. The question is, how far are we willing to go to prevent all traffic deaths, and severe injuries,, which is the beautiful, unattainable goal of Vision Zero. Why unattainable? Because people are stupid