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...
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By John Krause — Admit it, when you see a hipster roll up to a stoplight on their bike and then pass right through, it raises your blood pressure a measurable amount. There’s nothing worse than some clown riding his fixie making the whole world hate those scofflaw bicyclists. Or is there?
Let’s be clear, I hold bicyclists to the same standard as other people when it comes to following the law. This post isn’t an apology for bicyclists behaving badly, it is, rather, an examination of the exaggerated rhetoric directed at them and, by extension, other bicyclists too.
Find the comment section on a blog post relating to car/bike relations and you are virtually guaranteed to hear about the litany of ways in which cyclists abuse their fellow road-sharers. Wrong way down one-way streets, not stopping at stop signs, slowing down traffic by taking up too much space on the roadways. Judging by the vehemence with which some people berate the wayward rider you might think thousands of people are being killed on our roads each year.
The truth is, they are. But not by bicycles. [Continue reading ...]
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