Joined by Senator Hansen, Representative Osienski and a dozen of her colleagues, State Senator Elizabeth Lockman recently introduced legislation calling for Delaware to reduce annual traffic fatalities below 100 by 2025. “Traffic deaths have remained roughly constant in Delaware over the last 20 years, averaging over 120 fatalities each year,” Senator Lockman noted. “As Chair…
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We are, all of us, fallible. Being human means we make mistakes. But we believe, with Secretary Buttigieg, that we should not build systems where making a mistake means death. In fact, we’ll go farther than that: we think building systems where people die when they make mistakes (and then calling those deaths inevitable) is immoral. As of…
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On the very last day of its 2021 legislative session, the Delaware Senate voted unanimously to make Delaware’s safe yielding law permanent. Following a similar unanimous vote by the Delaware House of Representatives on June 17th, the bill now heads to Governor Carney. * Update* On September 17, 2021, Governor Carney signed the bill making…
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On June 17th, Rep. Larry Mitchell‘s bill to make Delaware’s safe yielding law permanent passed the Delaware House of Representatives. Unanimously. We’ve still got to get through the Delaware Senate, but this is another win for safer cycling in Delaware.
By James WilsonExecutive Director | Bike Delaware The Cape Gazette and WRDE Coast TV both report: Delaware’s safe yielding law for cyclists is “controversial” in Lewes. I saw that controversy for myself a couple of weeks ago when I testified to the Mayor and Council of the City of Lewes, who had put Delaware’s safe…
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Last year 32 people were killed in Delaware for this “crime”: they were walking in the wrong place at the wrong time Very few of those deaths received any coverage in any Delaware media in 2019 beyond a short article with a few sentences paraphrasing a police report. So those 32 shattered families grieved in…
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In 2015 the Dover City Council committed to creating a more bicycle-friendly Dover when it adopted the Dover Bicycle Plan. That plan called for the construction of the Senator Bikeway as its #1 priority. An east-west bike route through the heart of Dover, the Senator Bikeway would connect neighborhoods with schools and businesses so that…
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Early last month Beebe Hospital issued a press release reporting an increase in serious injuries from bicycle crashes in May and June in its emergency department for those months compared to 2018. Local press outlets in Sussex County ran with the story, not infrequently choosing alarming headlines like the one above. Other than that they…
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“Beebe Reports Surge in Serious Bicycle Injuries” Early last month Beebe Hospital issued a press release reporting an increase in serious injuries from bicycle crashes in May and June in its emergency department for those months compared to 2018. Local press outlets in Sussex County ran with the story, not infrequently choosing alarming headlines like…
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Every single year in Delaware between two to three dozen people are struck and killed by motor vehicles while walking. Between 2008 and 2017, that made Delaware the second deadliest state in America (pedestrian fatalities per capita) for pedestrians (behind only Florida ). We can do something about all this unnecessary death and grief, and…
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