The Hub 4/6/18: Clean Air Council’s Weekly Round-up of Transportation News
“The Hub” is a weekly round-up of transportation related news in the Philadelphia area and beyond. Check back weekly to keep up to date on the issues Clean Air Council’s transportation staff finds important.
PlanPhilly: Why 35 grown men traveled hundreds of miles to ride a SEPTA trolley – Dedicated transit enthusiasts travel the world to experience and photograph trains. A group of 35 “Railfans” charter a SEPTA trolley the Saturday before the Superbowl annually. They take pictures of it going through intersections, rounding corners, and more to catalog with other images of trains they’ve collected through the years.
Philadelphia Free Press: Residents Learn More About Spruce And Pine Repaving, Bike Lane Plans – Cycling advocates, business owners, and residents came together Wednesday and Thursday evenings to discuss the proposed changes to two of the cities most used bike lanes, along Spruce and Pine from the Delaware to the Schuylkill.
Metro Philadelphia: The case for moving a bike lane to the left side of the street – The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia’s Randy Lobasso explains how moving the Spruce and Pine bike lanes to the left side of the street will lessen conflicts between cyclists and vehicles. His message is clear: the best way to save lives is to create protected bike lanes river to river.
CityLab: Can ‘Bike Libraries’ Fix Chicago’s Cycling Equity Gap? – Giving people of color and low income individuals free access to bikes takes away one of the biggest obstacles to cycling. Equicity in Chicago is working to pick up where bike sharing companies leave off.
Next City: A Blueprint for More Equitable Transportation Planning – Activists in Bay Area cities are working to increase community input in transportation planning. Individuals in historically disenfranchised communities are likely to use transit as their main mode of transportation, so their voices should be central in the design of transportation systems.
