Friends of PhillyPumptrack at Parkside-Evans

Dear All,
We have officially registered our Friends of PhillyPumptrack at Parkside Evans group. If you signed up with us, you already received an email. If you would like to be added to our Friends group for build and maintenance volunteering opportunities please send an email to phillypumptrack@gmail.com

We realize this has been a two-year process. The city bureaucracy is deep my friends, very deep. But we have faith and there are a lot of great people at Parks and Rec and the Fairmount Conservancy supporting this project. We will keep you posted this Spring. If you've driven by the site, you've seen our new trees growing out of the clean fill that was put on site last Spring! : ) 

Tonight we will be meeting with Parks & Rec to start a Friends of PhillyPumptrack group. We have maintained a list of everyone that has ever showed up at an event and gave us a name and email. As soon as we have more information we will be letting everyone know how to join the group. We will be working with the Parkside Civic Association, Parks & Rec, and the neighbors to create a cohesive group of volunteers to work during the build phase as well as maintain the track. 

We are currently awaiting final sign off from the City Legal Dept. and look forward to posting a build date soon. LONG TIME COMING! 

MANY THANKS TO PHILLY BIKE EXPO AND BILENKY CYCLE WORKS for the $250.00 donation from the raffle proceeds. We need every penny we can get, soil, clay, natural fencing, storage container, machine rental, landscaping...

NEW NEWS! Huge Thanks to Paul Lonie at Acquaeconomics, Rosa and staff at Wells Appel and Paul and Jim for the cad drawings. Together, they made the PWD sign-off we needed possible. In the past five months we completed the site survey and had the soil erosion plan with the track design approved. One more hurdle... the City Legal Department. We are on it! Costing out soil and machine rentals.

We are corralling emails and will be updating people on build and volunteer days.

Check out FINAL PhillyPumptrack drawings at the Philly Bike Expo 10/27-28 at the Armory. Gotta get this thing BUILT!

Moving along slowly! But moving!

So it's a day before August and we haven't a track! I know it's a bummer but there are some civil engineering tasks that we are waiting on. Anytime you work with a big city, there is going to be a certain amount of beuracracy to get through. Please be patient. We are all itching to start!

Fortunately we have good support, and still have money in the bank, (never enough, hint, hint).

We did receive an awesome donation from Wolf Cycles! Thank you Wolf! They are the closest shop to the pumptrack and are at 4311 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia PA. You should totally go and support them or at least say hi. Wolf is a shop that has been around for over 50 years and was recently bought by the lovely people at Firehouse Bicycles. Strong community supporters and really nice people occupy their businesses!  

The pumptrack is coming! 

Join the PhillyPumptrack Crew Saturday, May 5th

Join the PhillyPumptrack crew on Saturday May 5th for a Parkside Neighborhood Awareness Day on site. 12-3pm. Food and Drinks. Stop by to see the plans, the dirt, ask questions, and find out about the build schedule and volunteer opportunities. Harlan Price will lead a mountain bike ride after the event at ~3pm to the Belmont Plateau Trail System. More details will be posted soon.



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