The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia (BCGP) is a nonprofit advocacy group working to improve conditions for bicyclists in the Greater Philadelphia region through advocacy and education. The BCGP was founded in 1972 and has a paid membership of over 1,500. The BCGP also supports efforts to create complete streets, and calm traffic.
The Bicycle Coalition runs the annual Bike Philly bicycle ride, which serves as a fundraiser for the organization and the Police Athletic League of Philadelphia. Bike Philly is a closed-to-cars ride through the heart of Philadelphia in the style of Chicago’s annual Bike The Drive. The ride began in 2007; in 2011, approximately 2,500 riders participated.
Famous quotes containing the words bicycle, greater and/or philadelphia:
“Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Are we no greater than the noise we make
Along one blind atomic pilgrimage
Whereon by crass chance billeted we go
Because our brains and bones and cartilage
Will have it so?”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
“It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man’s parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.”
—Cleveland Amory (b. 1917)