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#191 April 2025/Current Issue/transportation/Urban Nature

West Fairmount Park’s trolley system is reborn as a multi-use path

Beginning by the Chamounix Mansion, The Fairmount Park Trolley Trail passes through acres of lush forest. It curves and slopes past trees that are home to birds and squirrels, trees whose trunks sprout mushrooms closer to the forest floor. After a 15-minute walk, visitors arrive at the Skew Arch Bridge, the trail’s most popular feature.

April 1, 2025

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#098 June 2017/Community/transportation

Forging a trail for female cyclists in Philadelphia

Photo by Mark Likosky A Bike of One’s Own by Justin Klugh One journey started on a pair of bike tires, cruising over the flatlands of Lincoln, Nebraska. “On a dare, I got into bike racing in the fall of 2009,” says Nebraska native Elisabeth Reinkordt. It was cyclist Sidney Brown, a National Time Trial

May 31, 2017

3 mins read

#063 July 2014/Community/transportation

Ride With Purpose: CyclePhilly app strives to make the city a better place to bike

Data from the CyclePhilly app can be used by regional transportation planners to make Philadelphia a better place to ride. | Photo courtesy of Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission’s (DVRPC)The future of Philadelphia’s bike lanes is in your hands thanks to the new smartphone app CyclePhilly. Launching the app when you start your ride allows CyclePhilly

June 17, 2014

1 min read

#018 September 2010/Bicycling/transportation/Travel

Along for the Ride …to the Perkiomenville Flea Market

By Julie Lorch
On one of the hottest days of summer, a friend and I embarked on a two-day bike trip to Perkiomenville. Every Monday, over 300 vendors gather at the corner of Route 29 and the Perkiomen Trail for what is widely considered one of the best flea markets around. We had our saddlebags ready

August 20, 2010

3 mins read

#015 June 2010/Bicycling/transportation

Along for the Ride: Via Bicycles’ Curtis Anthony

Julie Lorch pedals along with notable members of Philly’s bicycle community on a route of their choice. They ride, they chat, she reports back.
Nice ride!” shouts a dude on a bike. “Awesome!” yells another. In 2010, a high wheel bicycle is a strange sight in Center City. But in 1886, the year that Curtis Anthony’s

May 11, 2010

3 mins read

#014 May 2010/Bicycling/Circular Economy/Recycling/transportation

Bikes: Along for the Ride with Andy Dyson

In a new column, Julie Lorch pedals along with notable members of Philly's bicycle community on a route of their choice. They ride, they chat, she reports back.
I met Andy Dyson at St. Mary’s Church, Neighborhood Bike Works’ (NBW) headquarters at 3916 Locust Walk. Director of the organization since 2002, Dyson spends his days surrounded

April 7, 2010

2 mins read

#013 April 2010/Bicycling/Design/transportation

News: TIGER Beat

A U.S. Department of Transportation grant should mean big things for the city’s walkers and bikers

The final weeks before spring—when the itch for the outdoors becomes borderline unbearable—is the perfect timing for this announcement: TIGER, The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery Discretionary Grant Program, has awarded our region $23 million in

March 10, 2010

1 min read

#012 March 2010/Art/Culture/Food/transportation

Intersections: Color Wheels

Mural Arts sets its sights on the city’s lunch trucks

After a while, Philadelphia’s omnipresent lunch trucks can blend together, fading into the backdrop of the city. Enter the Lunch Truck Project, a Mural Arts Program bringing vibrant colors and eye-popping designs to our city’s mobile meals.

February 20, 2010

1 min read

#010 December 2009/Bicycling/transportation

Book Review: Bicycle Diaries

Bicycle Diariesby David Byrne Viking, $25.95
In the early ’80s, David Byrne rediscovered the bicycle. It quickly became the Talking Heads frontman’s primary means of transportation around New York City. Soon after, he began taking a fold-up bicycle with him on tour for downtime explorations. A practice born of convenience, cycling through unknown terrain fostered a

December 1, 2009

1 min read

#009 November 2009/Bicycling/GridPhilly/transportation

New Business: Philly Electric Wheels

Wheels that won’t make you tired—unless you want them toThere was a collective sigh of relief from Philly’s bike commuters when extrawide lanes were painted on Pine and Spruce Streets. Traveling across Center City for work or pleasure is now a lot easier!

November 1, 2009

1 min read

#006 August 2009/Bicycling/transportation

Feature: Park that Bike

Philadelphia struggles with bike parkingby Sarah Clark StuartThe lack of bicycle parking racks is obvious around much of Philadelphia; not only in front of commercial storefronts, but inside office buildings as well. This bike parking shortage makes biking to work or other destinations difficult, but additionally, it leads to more bike theft. In 2008, when

August 1, 2009

2 mins read

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