DVRPC’s Expo: Experimental Pop-ups program offers assistance to communities (counties, municipalities, community/neighborhood groups, and partnerships) in the region to test innovative solutions for transportation problems through demonstration, or pop-up, projects. DVRPC assists communities to design, implement, and evaluate projects that apply various pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and roadway strategies that address safety and placemaking.
DVRPC offers a variety of technical assistance to selected communities with specific, attainable, near-term projects that promote livability and complete streets. While most communities are primarily interested in having someone to help think through the possibilities and process, DVRPC’s role on selected Expo projects might include the following tasks:
- Project management
- Design concepts
- Identifying materials
- Permit application
- Communications
- Promotion
- Agency and stakeholder coordination
- Creating community feedback surveys
- Traffic counts for pedestrians, bicyclists, and vehicles
Interested? Contact Us!
Please complete this interest form. Answer each question as specifically as you can, but it’s okay if you don’t yet know everything about the potential project. We will be in touch.
If you are working on your own pop-up project in the region and want to share information on the project with DVRPC, please tell us more.
Webinar: Experimental Pop-Ups: Tactical Urbanism in Greater Philadelphia
DVRPC hosted a webinar in April 2022, to share examples of pop-up transportation projects. Community leaders shared how and why they brought these projects to fruition.
Recent Projects
All Aboard Atlantic Avenue, Collingswood Borough, NJ
DVRPC partnered with Collingswood Borough in New Jersey for an Expo project titled “All Aboard Atlantic Avenue.” The complete streets demonstration featured the region’s first advisory bike lanes, curb extensions (some with painted designs by a local artist, others delineated by armadillos or flexible bollards) and a temporary curb ramp.
The demonstration project stemmed from feedback received during outreach for the 2020 Connect Collingswood and Haddon Township Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan, which was funded through DVRPC’s TCDI grant program. The project provided an opportunity to collect data and community feedback, which will help guide future infrastructure priorities. The project was a partnership between DVRPC, Collingswood Borough, Cross County Connection Transportation Management Association, Camden County, and PATCO, and was installed by the borough in August 2021.
View a video of the project.
Wheels on Windsor, Narberth, PA
DVRPC partnered with Narberth Borough and the Narberth Cycling Club to build a protected bike lane on Windsor Avenue. The ten-day pilot project was held in November 2020, and demonstrated complete streets design features.
The pilot included installation of a two-way protected bike lane along Windsor Avenue, temporary removal of a left-turn lane at Narberth Avenue, and enhanced signage and pavement markings to remind drivers to yield to people walking and biking at intersections. The demonstration provided an opportunity to collect relevant data and community feedback with minimal cost and use of borough resources. The pilot is the first step toward implementation of the bicycle network goals in Narberth’s Comprehensive Plan. Feedback and data from the pilot will help guide bicycle infrastructure priorities and possibly future pilots and projects in Narberth.
View a video of the project.
West Chester Bike Lane Demonstration, West Chester Borough, PA
In October 2019, DVRPC joined the Transportation Management Association of Chester County (TMACC), Traffic Planning and Design (TPD), Chester County Planning Commission, and Bike Chester County for a parking-protected bicycle lane demonstration on Market Street in the heart of West Chester. The three-hour demonstration closed a right-turn-only lane, and relocated curb parking by ten feet to create a safe bicycle lane for riders of all ages. The demonstration grew out of DVRPC’s 2018 West Chester Pike at Paoli Pike Multimodal Traffic and Circulation Study, which found that excess lane capacity for vehicles on this block of Market Street could be reallocated for use by cyclists. This successful demonstration helped raise awareness for high-quality bike infrastructure in West Chester, and offered TMACC and DVRPC a model of how to pursue pop-up or pilot project opportunities in the future.
View a video of the project.