Archive for: Bhatt

By Amy Wilburn, Chair, Delaware Bicycle Council – Once upon a time, DelDOT created a “funding pool” exclusively for bicycle and pedestrian projects.  The amount of money set aside varied from year to year, but it sometimes totaled in the millions.  Some excellent projects, including the Paper Mill Road bike lanes, were funded by this [...]

This image is not a “new logo” intended to replace DelDOT’s existing blue three-sided symbol.  The design was created as an internal communication tool to promote employee teamwork, and can be found in the signature to emails and letters. The following description was used to describe the image to employees: In his swearing-in speech Secretary [...]

The Murphy House was 170 years old and an important part of our history.  Delaware Greenways had submitted a proposal to partner with the Urban Bike Project to do a basic restoration of the Murphy House for trail users on the Greenway.  Ideas included running a bike share program for the residents of Wilmington.  Nemours [...]

DelDOT Secretary Shailen Bhatt Signs Memorandum of Understanding Between DelDOT and DNREC at Delaware Bike Summit on October 14, 2011 As we review the accomplishments of 2011, Bike Delaware wants to thank you for your commitment to bicycling in Delaware and urge you to help continue Delaware’s bicycling revolution in 2012. Look at these milestone [...]

At the Delaware Bike Summit, DelDOT Secretary Bhatt dramatically signed a Memorandum of Agreement with his colleague DNREC Secretary O’Mara to develop and execute Governor Markell’s First State Trails and Pathways Plan and build an “integrated non-motorized pathway and recreational trail network to provide opportunities for pedestrians and bicyclists to travel safely and efficiently and to expand [...]

By Henry J. Evans jr. Oct 24, 2011 Published in the Cape Gazette Shailen Bhatt, Delaware Department of Transportation secretary, has signed an agreement with Collin O’Mara, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control secretary, to follow through with work on 19 proposed  trails and pathways throughout the state. The First State Trails and Pathways [...]

A Memorandum of Agreement between the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) to Create and Maintain a Statewide System of Bicycle and Pedestrian Pathways and Trails that Will Support Non-motorized Travel and Recreation Opportunities within the State of Delaware LEWES – At yesterday’s Delaware Bike [...]

 DelDOT Secretary Shailen Bhatt at the Delaware Bike Summit: “Our goal is to create a world-class destination for people who want to bike.“

By Carol Ireland, White Clay Bicycle Club President Amy Wilburn with the Delaware Bicycle Council reached out to Secretary Shailen Bhatt to talk about her council’s activities and discuss some of their concerns. His response was to make this meeting as all inclusive if possible. He is very interested in hearing from the bicycling community. [...]

A brief recap of the Amish Country Tour on Saturday Sept. 10 Not even a 50% chances of rain (NOAA) was going to get in the way of this one. A record 1,700+ riders participated in the Amish Country Tour on September 10, shattering last year’s number by over 400. On hand for the first [...]

New DelDOT Secretary Breaks 20 Year CMAQ Drought   The WILMAPCO Council has approved DelDOTs request for $480,000 in federal CMAQ (“Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality”) transportation funds for the final phase of the Wilmington-to-New Castle Industrial Track for fiscal year 2012. Every year the U.S. government sends approximately $12 million in CMAQ dollars to [...]

Newly appointed Secretary of Transportation, Shailen Bhatt, has assembled a team of approximately 24 DelDOT employees – including himself – to ride together in the upcoming Amish Country Tour. A record turnout for the event is expected this year. If you are participating, please be sure to say hello to members of Team DelDOT, as [...]

Article and photos by Carol Ireland, White Clay Bicycle Club President A “full house” of Delaware elected officials was present on Thursday afternoon (Sept. 1) to announce $4.2 million in federal and state funding to begin construction of the recreational trail along the C&D Canal. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, Representative John Carney, Governor [...]

The Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program Ask your average bicyclist what “MTB” or “GPS” or “SAG” acronyms stand for and you’re likely to get a quick and possibly even accurate answer. But ask a cyclist what “CMAQ” stands for, and you’ll likely get a blank stare, even though (as the quote from Chicago’s bicycle [...]

Watch as Acting Secretary Cleon Cauley and Governor Jack Markell hand the reigns to Shailen Bhatt, DelDOT’s new Transportation Secretary. Bike Delaware is eager to work with Mr Bhatt on Complete Streets, Walkable Bikeable Delaware, and bicycle and pedestrian issues in general.

by Jeff Montgomery, News Journal DOVER — Saying his top priority is to restore public confidence in an agency shaken by controversy, former federal highway administrator Shailen Bhatt took office today as Delaware’s new secretary of transportation. Read News Journal article HERE.

Shailen Bhatt, Associate Federal Highway Administrator, to become Delaware’s Ninth Transportation SecretaryDelDOT Press Release — June 9, 2011 Dover — Governor Jack Markell’s nominee for Secretary of the Delaware Department of Transportation, Shailen Bhatt (pronounced “SHAY-Linn BAT”), was confirmed by the Delaware Senate this afternoon. “I would like to thank the members of the Delaware [...]

By Doug Denison, Dover Post.com Dover, Del. —The Delaware Senate today confirmed Gov. Jack Markell’s nominee to head the state’s embattled transportation agency. New DelDOT Secretary Shailen Bhatt is expected to be sworn in some time in the coming weeks. In the meantime he said he’ll be tying up loose ends at his current job [...]

Governor Markell Nominates New Transportation Secretary Along with the League of Women Voters, the Delaware Nature Society, the Civic League for New Castle County, the Milltown-Limestone Civic Alliance and Delaware Greenways, Bike Delaware asked Governor Jack Markell to appoint a visionary leader for Delaware’s next DelDOT Secretary. Meet Shailen Bhatt: Read civic groups letter to [...]

From the News Journal: A pedestrian that was killed Thursday morning as she crossed the street to get to a bus stop on Limestone Road in Pike Creek was identified today as Daxaben N. Bhatt. A state police spokeswoman said Bhatt, 47, of the Milltown area, was crossing Limestone Road about 7 a.m. near Arundel [...]