{"id":436,"date":"2026-06-03T14:21:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=436"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:21:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:21:52","slug":"city-asks-court-to-let-it-strengthen-bike-lanes-on-pine-and-spruce-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"City asks court to let it strengthen bike lanes on Pine and Spruce Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lawyers for the city and a group of residents faced off in a Philadelphia courtroom Tuesday over the legality of efforts to harden protection of the bike lanes on Pine and Spruce Streets.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=434\">John Kincade leaving 97.5 The Fanatic, but he\u2019s not retiring<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The hearing came nearly two years after a young physician was killed by a drunk driver while cycling on Spruce Street, a crash that helped galvanize legislation to install concrete curbs separating the bike lanes from traffic.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>After more than two hours, Common Pleas Judge Damaris L. Garcia said she would rule soon on the city\u2019s request to dissolve an August 2025 injunction that stopped the Streets Department from making changes to the bike lanes.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Friends of Pine and Spruce, a group of residents with homes along the narrow streets, won the order after suing the city on grounds that there was no legal authority to remove parking spaces for \u201cneighborhood loading zones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>City Council then passed a bill empowering the Streets Department to make any parking changes it deemed necessary. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cCity Council knew about the injunction and they addressed the legal authority that was lacking,\u201d said Bailey Axe, a senior attorney for the city Law Department.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>She said the FOPS group simply did not like a lawful political decision. The bill is now in the city code, and the order to stop work issued by Judge Sierra Thomas-Street was no longer needed. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Council amended the bill to narrow its coverage to Center City and then just to Pine and Spruce Streets, rather than in all neighborhoods with bike lanes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=432\">Brandon Graham was released Tuesday in an expected, procedural move but could still return to Eagles<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat they did was torture the language two weeks later and then re-tortured the language again,\u201d said George Bochetto, the lawyer representing FOPS.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>And Council made those amendments privately, with no public notice or input \u201cin the dark recesses of City Hall,\u201d Bochetto said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>FOPS had expanded its lawsuit to include anew complaint that the actions violated sunshine-law requirements that lawmakers conduct business in the open. In addition, it alleges thatCouncil violated the separation of powers in the city charter by delegating its lawmaking function to the executive branch.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Yet, city lawyers said, the residents\u2019group introduced no evidence that lawmakers changed the legislation in secret. The sponsor of the legislation gave notice in a public committee hearing that it had been amended and the changes also were discussed in an Inquirer article, they said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The loading zones are designed to give rideshares, delivery drivers, and residents a legal place to stop briefly. This coincides with the city\u2019s ban on stopping or parking inside protected bike lanes, which is punishable by a $125 fine in Center City.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The group claims the changes would eliminate 30% of parking spaces, violate existing permit-parking laws, and irreparably harm residents with disabilities and mobility changes from accessing their homes.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe hope the Court sees through FOPS\u2019s \u2018not-in-my-backyard\u2019 delay tactics, dissolves this injunction, and allows our elected representatives to do their jobs,\u201d said Jessie Amadio, an organizer with Philly Bike Action.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=430\">ANEU Kitchens plans expansive new facility | Inquirer Chester County<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Pine and Spruce Streets want curbside access to their homes for people with mobility challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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