Make Your Ride Better

Are you interested in supporting a campaign?

• Take Back the Drive and support making MLK Drive safe and enjoyable for park users.
• Help complete the Schuylkill River Trail and make your "trail toll" gift online in just four minutes.

Do you want to make your ride better? Join the community of people who support making biking better across the Delaware Valley: the 1,600 members of the Bicycle Coalition.

Our bike counts in Philadelphia show a doubling of bicycling in Philadelphia over the last three years. To help all those new bicyclists, we doubled our staff in 2008!

Your 2009 membership supports:
•    The work of our 8 local advocacy committees
•    Our new bicycling ambassadors program – next summer we will have 6 bicycling ambassadors encouraging biking and teaching bike safety
•    Our campaign to have Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware adopt statewide complete streets policies to ensure bicyclists are planned for in all road and transportation projects
•    Making Philadelphia’s new bike plan a blueprint for Mayor Nutter’s goal of creating the “Greenest City in America”
•    Hosting Philadelphia’s Bike Month in May with events like Bike to Work Day and Bike to the Ballpark
•    The Delaware Valley’s presence at the National Bike Summit to make sure biking is an important part of next year’s federal transportation bill
•    Bringing bike sharing to Philadelphia
•    Making Bike Philly bigger and better in 2009

The past year has been a very exciting one at the Bicycle Coalition -- from planning for a new bike plan under the Nutter administration to a state-wide win for reviewing bicyclists’ needs in all future Pennsylvania road construction to hosting 3,200 riders at our annual Bike Philly event.

We cannot make any of our plans come true without the support of our members. Many of our members choose to give a dollar a week to make their ride better. Committing to a dollar a week is a strong step towards making the Delaware Valley a more bicycle-friendly community — and it costs less than what you spend on gas or SEPTA – or even coffee!

Membership benefits include:

• The monthly CycleGram e-newsletter
• Discounts at over 30 bike shops in the region
• Discounted registration at Bike Philly and Bike Freedom Valley
• An invitation to our annual meeting
• Your membership dues are tax deductible

Most important of all, you will get the satisfaction of supporting better biking. Your support of the Bicycle Coalition will help you -- and your neighbors -- find more ways to bike for exercise, recreation and commuting.

How to Join

Click here to join online or download a pdf version of our membership registration form.

A note about renewals: Bicycle Coalition memberships are for the calendar year. We ask all members to renew in the fall for the following year.

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