The bicycle offers many benefits as a means of transportation and a form of recreation. However, many people who would use the bicycle as a form of daily transportation find cycling on many suburban roadways to be stressful and intimidating.

For these reasons the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) along with Clean Air Council and the Bicycle Coalition of the Delaware Valley (BCDV), recently embarked on the Suburban Bike Mobility Project. This program evaluates the level of service on arterial roads from a bicyclist's point of view. It then recommends improvements for approximately 70 miles of suburban roadway in Philadelphia's Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties.