Bicycle Friendly Community

Philadelphia, PA| Silver Level

Community Highlights: The City of Philadelphia is making great strides in its bicycle friendliness. It recently hired a Pedestrian Bicycle Coordinator to pave the bikeway for more bicycling infrastucture and city-sponsored programs. Its redesign of the South Street Bridge, colored bike lanes, advanced stop lines, bike signalization, and a bike access ramp to Schuylkill River Trail, are impressive signs that the city is serious about bicycling. Philly also launched a Bicycle Ambassadors Program to help encourage safe bicycling throughout the city.

Most Recent Significant Accomplishment: Elected in 2008, Mayor Nutter has publicly indicated that he wants his administration to be bicycle friendly, and that Philadelphia should be the "greenest city in America." Mayor Nutter committed to and hired in Septmber 2009 a professional transportation planner as the City's first Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator. He also created the Mayor's office of Transportation and Utilities in which the Bike/Ped Coordinator is housed. "We are a walkable, increasingly on to bicycles, we want to preserve our urban form. We do not want the automobile to dominate our landscape. We are a mass transit, bike sharing, power walking, proud city."