The One All-Weather Display at the Flower Show is Terrific

The Philadelphia Flower Show has opened and will remain open until Sunday. That means this is your first chance to see the winning designs from the bicycle rack contest we ran last year!

Spiral, by Collin Robinson. Destined for the PMA's Perelman Building

Seven of the ten winning racks are featured in the display, which can be seen in the Grand Hall Concourse near the food and drink (closest entrance is the Market Street entrance between 11th and 12th). This summer, all ten racks will be permanently installed in prominent places in and near Center City Philadelphia.

Pretzel, by Peter E. Brown & Barbara Ann Sprague; Ed Ocelus and Tom Ransom, fabrication

We will have glossy photos of all the racks to share with you next week. But in the meantime, we encourage you to check them out in person. While the idea of attending a flower show right now might seem absurd, it's actually the best in-city respite we can think of from the feeling that winter will never leave.

Lastly, but not least-ly, a tremendous number of people worked very hard to bring this display together.

Artists | Fabricators (not all fabricators known)

• Peter E. Brown & Barbara Ann Sprague | Ed Ocelus and Tom Ransom of R/J Florig Industrial Co. Inc. and Mark A. Franz of Franz Structural Engineering LLC
• Kathleen Fruge-Brown (whose "Bird" rack narrowly missed inclusion in the display)
• Warren Holzman | Iron Studio
• Carin Mincemoyer
• Collin Robinson
• Nathaniel Ross
• Ralph Tullie | RJ Florig Industrial Co. Inc.
• Juliet Whelan | En-Motion Design & RefreshTech

Display Designers and PR

• Tim Beitz, 160over90
• Kimberly Hallman, 160over90
• Cory McCall, 160over90
• Ralph Tullie

Partners in the project

• Margot Berg, OACCE
• Katie Pinder, Bicycle Coalition
• Aaron Ritz, MOTU
• Leslye Silver, Bicycle Coalition
• Shannon Slusher, 160over90
• Cozen O'Connor
• Advanced Sports International/Fuji
• The Knight Foundation
• PHS and the Flower Show
• Paul Newman
• Grace Kelly

If you're reading this and thinking, "Hey, this is a pretty nifty thing the Bicycle Coalition is doing!" then you are a prime candidate to make these kinds of initiatives happen again. How can you help? By becoming a member of the Bicycle Coalition right now. We can't snap our fingers and make unique bicycle racks appear on the streets - it takes time, effort, and relationships, and your membership makes those things possible.

Philly's New Bike Racks are Coming to the Philadelphia Flower Show

Last year we partnered up with the Office of Arts, Culture, and Creative Economy to bring art bike racks to Philadelphia's streets. We won a grant, put out a call for artists, and announced the winners. Now these unique bike racks are being fabricated right now, as we all sit here in our velvet-lined work pants, sip our coffee, and plot how we're going to sneak off to watch USA-Canada men's hockey at noon. (This is what we're all doing, right?)

A mid-production shot of "Spiral," a bike rack by Collin Robinson

These racks will eventually adorn some of Center City Philadelphia's most prominent locations, like the PMA's Perelman Building and Sister Cities Park. But the public's first glimpse of the racks is coming as a sculpture garden display at the Philadelphia Flower Show, March 1-9 in the Convention Center.

Another rack, "Birds" by Kathleen Fruge-Brown, to be displayed at the Flower Show

Up to eight racks total will be on display in the Grand Hall, most easily accessible via the Convention Center entrance on Market Street between 11th and 12th. (Map here.)

These racks will pull double duty: enlivening our streets with art, and helping ease Center City's desperate need for more bike parking. Because why lock to a boring old U-rack when you can lock up to a bird?

"Bike Rack" by Warren Holzman and Iron Studio takes its inspiration from the Fibonacci spiral
and Philadelphia's blacksmithing and steel shipbuilding history

This project was one of 43 winners of a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Knight Arts Challenge. MOTU is also playing a big part in running the contest, determining specs, and the racks' eventual installation this summer.

Where in University City Would You Like a Bike Rack?

The University Bike Collective which launched last year is undertaking its first public campaign - to identify areas in need of more bike parking.

They announced the initiative February 14th on their Facebook page:

In an effort to make biking more convenient in University City, the University Bike Collective asks YOU, where do we need more bike racks? Follow the link below to submit your own requests and view requests by others on an interactive map. The data you share will help determine which locations have the highest demand and will help make a case to get more bike racks on the ground.

So check out their crowdsourcing map here to suggest a location or vote up other people's requests.

Screenshot of the crowdsourcing map. Real thing here.

Supplying bike parking is a no-brainer for any business, but especially one in University City. Just try to find a spot to lock your bike near the Local 44/Honest Tom's Tacos/Lil Pop Shop corner during happy hour or a nice Saturday afternoon. Just try. Go ahead. We'll wait.

Presenting the Winning Designs for Our Artist-Designed Bike Rack Contest

This past summer we put out a call for artists to design bike racks for significant public places around Philadelphia. We held a contest, partnering with the City of Philadelphia's Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy and made possible by a $50,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Knight Arts Challenge.

This last week we finally were able to share the winning designs. Some of these racks are site-specific, designed to reflect the specific spots at which they will be placed. Others are more flexible. They are designed to hold either 2 or 4 bikes, and can be grouped together depending on space and financial restrictions.

Birds!

These racks still need to be fabricated and installed, but we are hoping they will begin to appear around the city this spring or summer.

Faithful dogs posting vigilant watch over your bike.

Click on the images for bigger versions. You can see the rest of the winning designs below, or check them out in this gallery. Are you a business or property owner and interested in getting one of these racks installed? Contact Margot Berg at the City for more information: margot.berg@phila.gov.

Success! Amtrak Commits to Improve Bike Parking at 30th Street Station

No more lonely or improvisational bike parking at 30th St

Your voice was heard! As we reported earlier this month, bike parking at Amtrak's third busiest station has been seriously constrained. Spurred by the 184 people who signed our petition, we have been in a dialogue with Amtrak staff about the issue. Amtrak recently made the following comments and commitments:

First, Amtrak explained that bike parking is "not ideal....[due to] two major improvement projects happening at the station right now – West Plaza Project and Installation of a Sidewalk Canopy System. The two projects are limiting the amount of space that we have around the station for bike parking."

Amtrak then committed take the following actions:

• When the West Plaza Project on the 30th Street side is completed in November, it will include spaces for at least 80 bikes. They will accomplish this by installing ten new racks (each rack can hold 8-10 bikes). 
• For the 29th Street side of the station, Amtrak will install six bike racks that each hold 8 bikes, for 48 total spaces. (Special thanks to the Mayor's Office of Transportation and Utilities, aka MOTU, for providing Amtrak with the six racks.)
• MOTU and University City District (UCD) will assist Amtrak in the removal of abandoned bikes.
• To address the incidences of Vespas and motorcycles parking at the bike racks, the Amtrak Police Department is stepping up enforcement and will ticket or tow them if they can’t get the owner to move the motor vehicle.

We thank Amtrak for being responsive to bicyclists' concerns and pledging to improve bike parking at 30th Street Station. A big thanks also to MOTU and UCD for stepping in to help Amtrak remedy the problem. We are looking forward to seeing these improvements implemented shortly, we hope in time for the Thanksgiving travel weekend.

Center City Shake Shack Unveiling Bike Corral This Afternoon (with beer!)

Rendering of the modular bike corral design

The Shake Shack in Center City Philadelphia is located in a neighborhood with a desperate need for more bike parking. The many restaurants, bars, and theaters in the surrounding blocks render bike parking as scarce as car parking. So we were impressed and pleased to hear that Shake Shack is taking the smart business step of installing their own bike corral.

The in-street bike corral is a collaboration between Shake Shack and Philly-based design firm SHIFT_Design. Installed as part of the 2013 DesignPhiladelphia Festival, the corral will be permanent and house 10-14 bicycles.

Shake Shack is celebrating the installation of the corral with a happy hour of sorts today after work. From their announcement:

Everyone is invited to join us during DesignPhiladelphia on Wednesday, October 16, 6-8 p.m. for complimentary Headwaters Pale Ale and Storm King Stout from our friends at Victory Brewing Company, in addition to bike-friendly swag. We’ll also be blending up Shake Shack Storm King floats. Bonus points for arriving on two wheels.

The bike corral, as it appears in its first location, the equipment loading module from The Matrix (not pictured: guns. Lots of guns.)

We asked Shake Shack for the impetus for getting their own, distinctive bike corral. They cited a desire to honor their company's foundational story as a hot dog cart in Madison Square Park, and a company policy of emphasis on environmental responsibility, design, and community investment. They don't have an official bike policy, but recognize that both customers and employees ride bicycles. This is their first bike rack at any Shake Shack location (take that, New York!).

Sign Our Petition To Improve Bike Parking at 30th Street Station

We've written before about the bike parking problem at 30th Street Station. The station, managed by Amtrak, is woefully and embarrassingly unaccommodating to travelers arriving by bicycle.

Amtrak needs to hear from station users that bike parking is important and Amtrak needs to provide more, and better, bike parking.

Please sign our petition which states:

30th Street Station must be better equipped and managed to accommodate passengers who want to combine biking with their train or rail trip. 30th Street Station should be able to accommodate all users of its facility and needs ample, safe and high quality bicycle parking to better meet demand. The current condition is unbefitting of your third busiest rail station. Please address this situation as soon as possible by:

1. Adding more high quality bike racks that meet City specifications to both sides of the station;
2. Enforcing the City's sidewalk and bike parking regulations;
3. Promptly removing abandoned bicycles. 

We visited 30th Street Station this Tuesday at 3 pm. We counted 78 bikes on the station's east side, and spaces for 38. Some of those spaces were lost to scooters and abandoned bicycles:

Three bikes per rack, because motorcycles and abandoned bikes (on left) are taking up valuable space

The station is under construction, but we want detailed assurances of how Amtrak will improve the bike parking situation, and that they will maintain that parking so that commuters are not forced to lock to anything vertical, like temporary wooden parking signs:

Or whatever these metal bars were supposed to be for:

Sign our petition asking Amtrak to improve and maintain the bicycle parking at the East Coast's third busiest train station.

Philly Bike Rack Contest Deadline Extended (and rack specs updated)

Attention ladies, gentlemen, distinguished guests, members of the jury, opposing pitchers, Trader Joe's crew members, Mister Speaker, passengers, our fellow Americans, and the owner of a white Dodge Stratus blocking the freight elevator:

Two important updates about the contest to create Philadelphia's next public art bike rack!

First, the deadline for submissions has been extended to September 30th.

Second, the specs for the large bike racks have been changed. The initial RFP incorrectly stated that dimensions for the rack had to include the locked bikes themselves. The updated document reflects the fact that those dimensions only pertain to the rack itself, not the bikes locked to it.

You can find the updated document with the specs, details of the contest, and everything else you need to know here.

If you are an artist, a designer, or just have a great idea for a bike rack, send it in! These racks will be featured in prominent places around the City, places like City Hall, Boat House Row, and Sister Cities Plaza. In a city increasingly known for its public art, your art will be in that collection!

Artists, Designers and Makers: Create Philly's Next Bike Rack

There are two weeks left before the submission deadline to create Philadelphia's next public art bike rack!

We can do better than this.
Photo source: http://peninsulatransportation.org/

The contest is open to all artists, designers, makers - anyone with an idea for what a Philly bike rack should or could look like. There is no cost to submission.

The deadline for submission is September 4th. The specs that the bike racks need to follow are contained in this RFP document.

If you have any questions, direct them to Margot Berg at the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy: margot.berg@phila.gov.

It's rare that a city opens up its streets to public artists in this way. We hope Philadelphia (and artists beyond) will take advantage of the opportunity! Our city need more bike parking, and we can meet that demand while making our streets less ho-hum.

This contest is made possible by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Knight Arts Challenge. 

Four Steps to Obtaining Bike Parking for Your Philly House or Business

The current gold standard in Philly - bike corrals

Whelp, you go out of town for one weekend, it's apparently beautiful in Philadelphia, and you return to an inbox filled with questions about getting bike racks.

So, property owners, business owners, and residents: hark! Here be four current ways you can get, or position yourself to get, bike parking in town.

1. Install Your Own. If you're willing to procure U-racks yourself (they cost $250, maybe less, from a variety of companies), you can install them in the sidewalk by obtaining a permit from the city. Information about that here.
2. Bike Corrals. Are you a business or property owner interested in an in-street bike corral (like these)? E-mail Aaron Ritz at the Mayor's Office of Transportation & Utilities (aaron.ritz[at]phila.gov) and express your interest. Here is the application which outlines what is involved. 
3. Bike Sharing. The City is busy identifying locations for the hundreds of bike sharing stations that will be installed next year. Want in? Contact the aforementioned Aaron.
4. Special Art Bike Racks. We are part of a program with the City to install special art bike racks around town. The City is interested in property owners that might be interested in sponsoring a rack. Contact Margot Berg (Margot.Berg[at]phila.gov) if you're interested in learning more about that.

In the past several years the City has offered bike racks or bike corrals to interested property owners. None of those programs are currently happening, although we hope they return in the future. But why wait? Close proximity to bike parking or a bikeshare station is smart for your business, restaurant, apartment complex, or office building. Get ahead of the curve and get bike parking!

UPDATE 8/22/13 11:30 AM: The City of Philadelphia has debuted their bikeshare website: http://www.phila.gov/bikeshare. Go there to suggest a location for a bikeshare station or learn how your business or land can host a station.

One Month Left To Design Philly's Next Bike Rack

Calling designers, artists, and makers! There is one month left to submit designs for Philadelphia's next art bike rack!

In partnership with the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, we are issuing a call for proposals for bike racks to be installed around Philadelphia. This competition is open to all artists and design professionals. The deadline for submission in September 4th.

Let your imagination run wild (within the confines of the specs of the RFP). Other cities have bike racks that reflect something essential about that neighborhood or city - now it's time for Philly to do the same.

A Nashville art bike rack (image: Nashville Public Radio) 

Our goal is to use the same pavement twice: bring some desperately-needed bike parking to our streets, while enlivening our streetscapes with new public art. This contest is made possible by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Knight Arts Challenge.

Artists are responsible for identifying the fabricator for the rack (but if your design is chosen, there is a budget to pay for the fabrication and installation). For full competition details, including the project budget, selection process, submission procedures and design guidelines, please see the official RFP document. Questions can be directed to Margot Berg at margot.berg@phila.gov.

Calling Artists: Design Philly's New Art Bike Racks (Request for Proposals)

When you lock your bike in Philadelphia, your options probably look like this:

These racks are functional, but Philly is an artistic town and we can dream and design better.

In partnership with the City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, we are issuing a call for proposals for bike racks to be installed in Center City (and possibly elsewhere in Philly). This competition is open to all artists and design professionals.

An 80' tall steampunk Oliver capable
of securing 1,200 bikes would be a bold move.
Just sayin...

Our goal is to use the same pavement twice: bring some desperately-needed bike parking to our streets, while enlivening our streetscapes with new public art.

For full competition details, including the project budget, selection process, submission procedures and design guidelines, please see the official RFP document.

Timeline:

• Request for Proposals: NOW! (What can you conjure, Philly?)
• Submission Deadline: September 4, 2013
• Artist(s) notified: October, 2013
• Bike racks installed: Spring/summer, 2014

This is happening thanks to a $50,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Knight Arts Challenge.

PDF: Artist-Designed Bike Rack RFP

Announcing a New Art Bike Rack Campaign

We are excited to announce that we will be working with the Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy to bring art bike racks to Philadelphia.

This is happening thanks to a $50,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Knight Arts Challenge. The Knight Arts Challenge is a $9 million initiative funding innovative projects that engages and enriches Philadelphia’s communities. The grant award winners were announced yesterday.

We love the inverted U rack, but there's so much more that can be done with that piece of sidewalk furniture. Everyone knows how desperately Center City and other neighborhoods in town need more bike parking, so we're excited to be able to help address that need while adding some local art to our sidewalks.

Matching funds for the grant must be obtained, and then a call will be put out for artists to submit designs for the racks. We will keep you posted on this exciting new initiative as it takes shape.

We were one of 43 Knight Arts Challenge winners. You can check out the full list of winners* on the Knight Arts website.

*A lot of terrific recipients in this list, but holy moly - Pig Iron Theater Company and Dr. Dog will be collaborating on a "concert spectacle billed as a multimedia opera in the tradition of Pink Floyd’s 'The Wall'." Color us excited.

Crowdsourced Bike Parking Map Identifies Rail Stations Most In Need Of Bike Parking

This thing. Remember this thing?

Back in September we asked for your help to improve bike parking at area rail stations and transit hubs by adding information to a crowdsourced map. The project was a collaboration of DVRPC, SEPTA, NJ TRANSIT, DRPA (PATCO) and the Open Plans Shareabouts application.

The public input portion ended in December, and DVRPC has now compiled the 462 responses the map generated. PlanPhilly also covered the release of the survey results.

At the bottom of this post, you can see the three maps DVRPC generated based on the user responses.

This Map Wants To Know Which Transit Stops Need More Bike Parking

Do you bike to a transit station? Would you do it if the station near your house had more bicycle parking? We've got a map that needs your input!

Combining a short bike ride and regional transit (ie, multi-modal commuting) has great potential for helping people avoid the stress of highway gridlock commuting. This commuting strategy doesn't happen in great numbers because of two obstacles:

1. The lack of secure, covered, plentiful bike parking at stations;
2. Gaps in the bikeway network to get you safely to the station.

Improving bike parking at transit stops has been on our radar for some time. Recently, SEPTA asked the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) to study obstacles that prevent more potential customers from using trails to get to transit stops. This seemed like a great opportunity to figure out where the demand for better bike parking and improvements to the local bikeway network exist. If this information could be obtained, it would help inform SEPTA, PATCO, and NJ Transit where to prioritize their resources.

We asked Open Plans to create a crowdsource map to accomplish this goal. We collaborated with DVRPC and the three transit agencies to prepare the survey and Open Plans developed the website with its new software Shareabouts, a tool to crowdsource data in a neighborhood or city.

Here's where you come in: visit the map and tell us which transit stops need better bike facilities! Then share the map with your friends, family, coworkers and others. The more input the map receives, the better the recommendations provided to DVRPC and the transit agencies.  The map will be up until December 1st, 2012 and we encourage you to return to the map to respond or discuss other people's responses.

If you have questions about the project or find issues with the map, direct them to bike@bicyclecoalition.org with the subject line "Bike Parking Map".

Philadelphia Neighborhoods Support In-Street Bike Parking

Over the past week, two civic associations held meetings in Fishtown and Kensington to consider the installation of in-street bike corrals. Both meetings resulted in resounding votes of approval for both applications: one in front of Kung Fu Necktie, and one in front of Johnny Brenda's.

The corrals will be 6 U-racks on rails, similar to this.

Both businesses applied for the corrals under a program offered by the City of Philadelphia. Per the application process, interested businesses had to get the approval of their City Council rep. Councilman Darrell Clarke told KFN and Johnny Brenda's to seek the approval of their civic associations.

Now these businesses have that support, and it's Councilman Clarke's turn to give his approval to the corrals' installation.

Compliments are in order to Kung Fu Necktie and Johnny Brenda's for engaging their communities and making their businesses more accessible to customers. Bike parking is a problem for both joints, leading bicycles to be locked to everything in sight but the stray cats. These corrals will help alleviate that problem, while lessening demand on car parking by encouraging customers to shop by bike.

A Philadelphia First - City Offering In-Street Bike Corrals To Philly Businesses

Philadelphia is taking a major step towards improving its bicycling infrastructure and its economy with a new program they are announcing this week: free in-street bike corrals to interested Philadelphia businesses.

The new corrals won't look like this one on Walnut &
Sydenham, but will provide parking for 12 bikes

We brought the first in-street bike corral to Philadelphia last September, turning one car parking spot into 14 bicycle parking spots. The corral has been a huge success: always in use, and facilitating commuting, errands, and shopping in Center City.

Now the Mayor's Office of Transportation and Utilities (MOTU) is offering 10 in-street bike corrals to interested businesses. 

The application process is open now and runs until May 30th. The racks are free to businesses who complete the application. If your business or property has more demand for bike parking than can be met by sidewalk racks, this is your opportunity to get an in-street bike parking corral in front of your place of business!

Here is the announcement from the Mayor's Office of Transportation and Utilities:

Following the successful pilot last fall of an in-street bike parking rack on Sydenham St. just south of Walnut St in Center City, our office received numerous requests from businesses around the City to provide in street bike parking. Starting this month, MOTU will be soliciting applications from businesses and organizations who want to convert a single car parking space in front of their building into parking spaces for 12 bicycles. We will be awarding up to 10 of these racks free of charge to applicants who prove that they meet the criteria outlined in application packet.

Interested businesses or organizations are required to complete the following steps:

• Determine if their location meets space requirements
• Provide evidence that their location has a high and unmet demand for bicycle parking
• Complete the application form
• Acquire letters of approval from their district City Council representative

One of 80 bike corrals installed in Portland, OR

This program will follow the examples set by peer cities across the country including Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland Oregon, and Milwaukee in which a single car parking space is converted into parking spaces for multiple bicycle parking.

Applications are due May 30th, but those submitted by May 15th will get preferential treatment. Download the application here!

New Map Of Bike Parking Locations In Philadelphia

Back in October, we entered two data sets into the OpenDataRace: bike theft data, and bike parking locations. Open Data Philly announced last week that the City of Philadelphia has released its bike parking locations data in GIS. Developer Mark Headd answered the call to make it even more accessible by bringing that data onto the web.

The map (linked below) consolidates the bike parking that has been installed by the City since 1997, including the first round of adopt a rack and the parking meter conversion. (The BCGP adopted all the racks at SEPTA stations). The on-street bike corral at Walnut & Sydenham was not included in this list. Privately installed bike racks such as those at Citizens Bank Park are also not included.




View a larger map in GeoCouch

Help the Bicycle Coalition Keep Philly's First Bike Corral!

 What's not to like (love) about the new bike corral on Sydenham Street that was installed last week for Park(ing) Day?

We think it's pretty fabulous and are thrilled to see bikes parked in it all day, every day, since we collaborated with the Mayor's Office of Transportation to get the loan from Dero Bike Racks and installation by the Streets Department last week.

We're not alone in loving this rack. The Mayor's Office of Transportation, which wants feedback on the racks from the public, received this email last week.

My husband and I happened to walk past the bike corral at Walnut & Sydenham tonight and our jaws dropped . . it was just one of those moments where you get warm fuzzies and think "I love my city!" We are Center City residents and bike commuters who use the 22nd Street/Pine/Spruce bike lanes daily/year-round, and we work on Walnut Street near Rittenhouse, so we know the feeling of not being able to find enough bike parking. We love seeing new & innovative ideas coming from the Mayor's Office of Transportation and this is one that shows you don't need to break the city budget to create something useful. The public art factor cannot be ignored either - instead of a generic multi-bike rack, we get to see something creative & unique. Walnut Street plays daily host to many tourists, day trippers, and city residents and it is high time for some visible signals that Philly is a progressive, modern city that can balance the needs of all of it's residents (pedestrians, bikers, public transit, deliveries and drivers)! --Kelly Gibb

We couldn't agree more with Kelly. We want to make this rack permanent (although we're not sure of the exact location--that needs to be worked out with the Parking Authority). But, we need to raise $4500 to purchase the rack. We have one donation of $500 to start us off contributed by attorney Stuart Leon. If you are interested in making a donation to purchase this corral, please contact Mary Duffy, our Development Director at Mary@bicyclecoalition.org or click here to make an online donation. You don't need a Paypal Account to donate, just enter your donation amount and scroll down to where it says you can continue without a Paypal Account.

Help us Buy the Bike Corral!

p.s. If you want to give your own feedback on this rack and whether more should in installed in the future in Philadelphia, to the Mayor's Office of Transportation, please send an email to aaron.ritz@phila.gov

Philly's Adopt-A-Rack Applicants Notified Today

Those of us whose application was accepted for a bike rack to be installed under the Adopt-A-Rack program received an email today from the Mayor's Office of Transportation letting us know which location and how many racks will be installed.  (Applications were received over a three week period ending on April 7, 2010).   The process going forward is that the contract will be submitted for bid in a few weeks, followed by an award in May.  Once the contract is awarded, City staff will mark the spots of where racks are to be installed and a contractor will do the installation.


Under the Adopt-A-Rack program, 270+ racks will be installed using funding that the City received from the Department of Energy through the Recovery Act.  That funding is also helping to pay for the meter conversion program being administered by the Philadelphia Parking Authority, (more to come on the status of that program in a future blog post.)

Thank you Mayor Nutter and the Mayor's Office of Transportation!