Bike Delaware is joining with DelDOT to co-sponsor site licenses in Delaware for an important national webinar: Wayfinding Options for Cyclists Wednesday, December 19 | 3:00 to 4:15 p.m. | Dover and Newark *** Register Here *** Bicycle wayfinding signs are different than other signs placed in the right of way because they are part of…
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By DAVID DERBYSHIRE 15 June 2007 Daily Mail When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his favourite fishing haunt without adult supervision. Fast forward to…
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Complete Streets is a phrase to conjure with. The idea that streets are places that should serve many users (and not just car and truck traffic level-of-service) is popular. And, indeed, Delaware has an official policy that is called “Complete Streets”, whose name invokes this idea. Despite the name, however, Delaware’s actual policy is more…
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We can make Delaware the most bicycle-friendly state in America. C’mon, really? Yes, really. Earlier this year, Delaware leapt 8 places in the League of American Bicyclists’ ranking of bicycle-friendly states, from 18th place to 10th place. So it’s not as if we have to move from the bottom of the list of states. We’re…
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Today and tomorrow (December 9), you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. The benefits of cycling are myriad and profound: a stronger economy a healthier population more independent and self-confident kids a more resilient transportation system But for Delaware to gain these benefits, a lot of Delawareans have to choose…
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For the next 3 days (until December 9), you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. 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…
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For the next 4 days (until December 9), you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. “Resilience” is the capacity of a system to recover from perturbation, disturbance, stress or catastrophe. “Resilience” is different from strength. A bodybuilder may be strong. But if he is vulnerable to being laid low…
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Newark Bicycle Plan Public Workshop – December 6, 4-7 p.m., Newark Municipal Building, 220 Elkton Rd, Newark. Kick-off meeting for the development of the Newark Bicycle Plan. This is a “Drop In” event, where you can come by anytime between 4 PM and 7 PM and participate for 10 to 15 minutes, or hand around…
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But a 100 years ago they were. Starting around the 1920s, streets were taken away from children (and then from the rest of us as well). There are very few people alive today who remember this history. Now public educations campaigns like the ones shown below are unnecessary. They have been internalized and we teach…
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