Author: James

Making cycling and walking safe, convenient and fun in Delaware

We bike, we vote and we’ll be watching the returns from Alameda County, California where $600 million dollars for cycling is on the ballot

Bike Delaware World Headquarters November 6, 2012 Polls open at 7AM and close at 8PM. If you’re not completely certain where your polling place is, this handy tool provided courtesy of the great state of Delaware will tell you where you need to go:   DEPARTMENT OF ELECTIONS-POLLING PLACE LOCATOR   Redistricting has taken place…
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November 6, 2012 0

Longhurst and Colleagues Fought for Trail Network Funding

“[O]ne of the best ways we can improve our quality of life, and promote healthy lifestyles at the same time, is to make our state more walkable and bikeable. In the next year, working with Representative Keeley and Senator Venables, we will launch the First State Trails and Pathways Plan. I am proposing that we…
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November 3, 2012 0

AWESOME Video: The First State Trails and Pathways Initiative

DNREC has put together this awesome 5 minute video on Governor Jack Markell‘s First State Trails and Pathways Initiative: connecting Delawareans to better health connecting Delaware neighborhoods to parks, schools and local businesses connecting communities to each other connecting people of all ages…to the places they want to go Video Narrator: “Governor Jack Markell envisions…
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November 2, 2012 0

November 15: Vote on 2013 Advocacy Goals

WHAT: Bike Delaware Strategic Vision 2013 (SV2013): Vote on cycling advocacy goals for 2013 WHEN: November 15, 5 to 8PM WHERE: Newark, Delaware Register HERE. November 15: Bicycle Advocacy for the Busy Majority On November 6, Delawareans will vote on who we want to send to Dover and to Washington, DC to guide and decide…
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October 26, 2012 0

Results of 2012 Survey of Delaware Candidates Released

  What do candidates running this year for Governor and for the Delaware General Assembly think about cycling, and about improving cycling in Delaware? Along with our partners Sussex Outdoors and Delaware Greenways, Bike Delaware asked them. And they answered: 3 out of the 4 candidates running for governor, and 48% of all the candidates running…
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October 17, 2012 0

Thank You 47%. Candidate Survey Is Closed.

A total of 115 candidates for Governor and General Assembly will be on the ballot on November 6. 54 of them – 47% – took the trouble to respond to our survey.  A big Bike Delaware thank you goes out to all of them! The survey is now closed. Along with our partners Sussex Outdoors and Delaware Greenways, we will…
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October 12, 2012 0

Candidate Survey Extended For 24 Hours

With a flood of last minute surveys coming in, we are extending our 2012 candidate survey by 24 hours to make sure we catch any last minute responses. What do candidates running this year for the Delaware General Assembly and Governor think about walking and bicycling, and about making them better?  They’ve now got until…
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October 11, 2012 1

Help Make This Election Matter For Bicycling

Here’s one of the coolest things about the survey Bike Delaware (along with partners Sussex Outdoors and Delaware Greenways) is conducting of all candidates running for the General Assembly: just one call or email from just a single constituent is usually enough to get a candidate to respond. If a candidate tells you he/she hasn’t…
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October 6, 2012 0

An Election Is An Opportunity

Imagine you are running for public office in Delaware. What issues are you going to talk about in your campaign? What isues are you going to work on if you are elected? Unless you are some sort of ideologue, you’re going to talk about and then work on the issues that you hear about from…
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October 4, 2012 0

1 Week To Go!

What do candidates running this year for the Delaware General Assembly think about bicycling, and about making bicycling better? They have 1 week left to tell us! Here’s one of the coolest things about this survey:  just one call or email from just a single constituent can be enough to get a candidate to respond. If…
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October 3, 2012 0