Year-end bicycling blog posts are a strange undertaking. The best parts of a year's worth of bicycling are not easily ordered, numbered, or even classified. My personal "bicycling year in review" would include things like this:
- February: The first day in months I rode without gloves.
- June: Rode down Locust and banked perfectly into the turn such that I got nearly to the intersection at South Street without pedaling.
- December: Got caught riding back from Belmont Mansion Plateau during a snowstorm.
- Every month: All those times I wasn't stuck in a car in traffic.
But here at the Bicycle Coalition, we also trade in victories, events, new trails, new legislation, and other, more tangible aspects of bicycling. So as we look forward to another year of better bicycling in the Greater Philadelphia Region, here are some of the things that happened in 2013 which deserve partial credit for the good 2014 rides yet to come.
A By-No-Means-Comprehensive Look at Bicycling Milestones in 2013
January
- Our artist-designed bike rack project is named a Knight Arts Challenge grant finalist. Look for an announcement on the winning designs this spring!
