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Kenyatta Johnson

If you’d told us three years ago that we’d be writing this, we’d have probably wondered how someone could be on City Council while sitting in a federal penitentiary. But such is often the case in Philadelphia; we’re a home of second (third, fourth) chances. We want to commend Johnson specifically for his about-face on bike safety. In the past, he torpedoed plans for traffic calming measures on the stretch of Washington Avenue that runs through his district. But he championed the city’s Get Out the Bike Lane legislation, and even served as the keynote speaker at the city’s Vision Zero conference this past March. Here’s to second chances.