City Council decides to investigate creation of Philly BikeShare

Philadelphia City Council Investigates Creation of Bike Sharing.

Philadelphia City Council in its first 2008 Session passes Resolution to hold hearing to investigate the creation of a Public Use Bicycle Program.

The Philly BikeShare initiative launches

I wrote the text of “Philly Eco-City” in July of 2007, that is before the election of Mayor Michael Nutter.

Last week I discovered that on Thursday January 17th a bunch of people from the Bicycle Coalition of Philadelphia launched an initiative to create Philly BikeShare or rather “Bike Share Philadelphia” as they call it. The launch event took place at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences on a cold winter night. The event attracted about 400 people with, among others, Michael Nutter, the new Philadelphia Mayor, and a state representative in attendance.

I am very happy that other people had the same idea and are working on making it happen.
Launching a bike sharing program in a large US city is a major endeavor.

Philly Eco-City

I wrote this post in July of 2007, before the election of the new Mayor of Philadelphia.

The major themes of the election for the next mayor of Philadelphia predictably were:
Crime, Jobs, Ethics, Taxes and Neighborhood development.

For even sake, has anyone in the local political class heard of Global Warming?

I hear that Michael Nutter is a firm supporter of sustainability.
Cool.

I found the absence of a unifying direction in the platform of the candidates striking, even bewildering.

Crime, under-employment for youth and for the under-privileged population of the city, ethical lapses from city officials, fair income sources for the city, neighborhood development, in my mind, are all symptoms of a deteriorating social fabric of The City. Not just this city, all large cities on the planet exhibit these symptoms with varying degrees of acuity.

The fact that Philadelphia is the city where the Constitution was drawn is not just a historical event. I propose that Philadelphia be the city where the model for the city of the next decades emerges.

What does this mean ?