By Brenda Hernandez

The Better Bike Share Partnership (BBSP) is an effort led by the City of Philadelphia that works to ensure that Indego bike share is accessible to all Philadelphians. The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia is a non­profit advocacy and education organization working as part of the Better Bike Share Partnership to support bike share and biking education.The Better Bike Share Partnership is funded by the JPB Foundation.

Year round, the BBSP team highlights stories of our events and rides. Now, we want to tell you more about the people behind those events and rides. As a two-part series, we will introduce you two amazing people behind the hard visual work that carries amazing stories for us to share. Meet photographer Rashiid Coleman, who has been working with the Better Bike Share team for two years and has captured amazing moments on film of our events.

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The Better Bike Share Partnership (BBSP) is an effort led by the City of Philadelphia that works to ensure that Indego bike share is accessible to all Philadelphians. The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia is a non­profit advocacy and education organization working as part of the Better Bike Share Partnership to support bike share and biking education.

The Better Bike Share Partnership is funded by the JPB Foundation.

Our Better Bike Share Partnership team joined the Office of Adult Education to plan out a reunion in order to connect all participants from all the Digital Skill and Bicycle Thrills (DSBT) cohorts in one big community building to celebrate each group’s success.

The Digital Skills and Bicycle Thrills program helps participants learn digital and computer skills while also learning about biking safety in the city using Indego. The program lets participants have the opportunity to join in on a group ride to put what they’ve learned about urban biking to practice.

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The Better Bike Share Partnership (BBSP) is an effort led by the City of Philadelphia that works to ensure that Indego bike share is accessible to all Philadelphians. The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia is a non­profit advocacy and education organization working as part of the Better Bike Share Partnership to support bike share and biking education. The Better Bike Share Partnership is funded by the JPB Foundation.

By Brenda Hernandez

This year, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia and Indego teamed up to create a series of monthly community rides.
The Indego Monthly Ride Series help communities practice more on in city biking and connects participants to green spaces; these rides help community members feel more comfortable riding in through the city from their neighborhoods, get to know different parts of Philadelphia parks and recreational services, while learning how to use a healthier source of transportation that is Indego.

This past month, the BBSP team led community participants on a historic tour from Parkside neighborhood into the West Fairmount Park. The team met community members who had sign up for the event through the Indego page on the Monthly Ride Series, at Parkside and Girard Indego station. Before the start of the ride, community participants were given a brief urban basic biking class. The urban riding basics class talked about being safety and gives healthy tips, preparing community participants before the start of the ride so they feel more comfortable riding. (more…)