We’re sharing Jacquee’s story to encourage people to think about cycling for transportation in Delaware. If you have a story about using a bicycle instead of a car to get places that you’d like to share too, we’d like to publish it. Contact us here. by Jacquee Lukawski I live in Bellefonte, a suburban area…
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2013 Look Back: This article was originally published on February 26, 2013. It was the most viewed Bike Delaware article of 2013. by Jeff Potter Excerpted from Mackinac Island: “Watch the Bike!” published in Bicycle Times Magazine (Feb/Mar 2013) Bike culture has recently been booming in the U.S. But there’s a little place in the north…
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by Jeff Potter Excerpted from Mackinac Island: “Watch the Bike!” published in Bicycle Times Magazine (Feb/Mar 2013) Bike culture has recently been booming in the U.S. But there’s a little place in the north that’s been in love with bikes for generations: Mackinac Island, Michigan, a historic tourist destination on the Straits of Mackinac, between Lakes…
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by James D. Schwartz Published in Urban Country July 4, 2013 In Copenhagen, traffic signals along “green wave” routes are timed to provide a constant flow of green lights to bicycles traveling at 20km/hour. Bicyclists who ride at this speed will never hit a red light all the way to the city centre. In…
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“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” – Winston Churchill Yesterday we asked this question: What is completely free, takes less than 5 minutes to do, is the single most important first step that most Delawareans can do to help make…
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Check out the cycling/walking candidate survey that is happening right now. The deadline for candidates to respond is Wednesday. We all know that Barack Obama is the president of the United States. And most of us know the name of the man he beat in the most recent presidential election. But do you know the…
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I arrived in Boulder to visit my daughter’s family at the peak of the record breaking rainfall that has caused flooding of historic proportions across the entire county and beyond. I had hoped to do some bicycling while in Colorado, enjoying some of the many wonderful bike paths and bikeways. Instead I’ve been watching the…
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It’s a place thousands of miles away with its own language, culture, history and traditions, so we try hard to not sound like a broken record always going on and on about the Netherlands. But for anyone, including us, who thinks bicycling is cool, the Netherlands is a model and an inspiration. A few months…
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Streets are not roads. A good road is about traffic throughput. A good street is a much more complex, and interesting, entity. It can be about commerce. It can be about neighborhood. It can be about culture. It can be about civilization. Most of all, though, a good street is a place. A lot of…
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