Delaware 2013 Bicycle Friendly State “Report Card”
Between May of 1997 and March of 2008 (over 10 years), Delaware’s unemployment rate was between 3 and 4%. But for the last four years, unemployment has stubbornly...
We know what we want. And it all comes back to the “Bike and Pedestrian Improvements” program authorization for the Delaware Department of Transportation. We...
by Melissa Nann Burke The News Journal February 15, 2013 Relatively few Delaware workers commute by bike, but they might reconsider when cyclists are whizzing...
* if you forget about maintenance, insurance, parking, tickets, and gas isn’t $4+/gallon, and you’re getting 42 mpg, which most cars still aren’t.
So which would you choose?
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3 Comments
But I can enjoy my Chunky Monkey and still be thin, healthy and fit! Plus I can avoid traffic jams as well as expensive trips to the doctor dealing with morbid obesity, diabetes, colon cancer, clinical depression, etc.
Never mind the crazy expensive costs of maintaining large but mostly empty parking lots that have devastated the vitality of our cities. Delaware has some ugly examples of towns that have been ravaged by the need to accommodate the car at all costs.
Where did you get this factiod?
I had that in draft for quite awhile, so if it isn’t readily Googled, I don’t know. Probably a Ben & Jerry’s ad somewhere.
As for the empty parking lots, there is nothing worse on the environment and quality of life than big box retail – read “Big Box Swindle” by Stacy Mitchell: http://www.bigboxswindle.com/