House District 1 covers the most northern section of Wilmington and includes the Trolley Square, Baynard Village and Brandywine Hills neighborhoods. (If you are not 100% sure whether you live in House District 1, you can search here using your address.) If you live in this district your choice on November 3 to represent you in the Delaware House is between the incumbent Representative Nnamdi Chukwuocha and his challenger Lisa McInnis. Using a multiple choice format, we asked these two candidates to share their views on five statements related to traffic safety in Delaware. Representative Chukwuocha did not respond but Ms. McInnis’s answers are here:
1) I voted for, or agree with, the Truth in E-Bike Marketing Act (HS 1 for HB 439), which prohibits commercial sellers from advertising high-speed electric motorcycles using terms like “electric bicycle” or “e-bike” and requires clear written disclosures regarding a vehicle’s legal classification, power, and licensing requirements.
McInnis: Strongly Agree
2) I voted for, or support, the recently passed HB 363, which allowed the default speed limit on streets in residential districts to be lowered to 20 mph.
McInnis: Strongly Agree
3) Single-vehicle run-off-the-road crashes account for over a third of Delaware’s fatal crashes. To address this, I would support legislation complementing HB 363 that lowers the default speed limit on low-volume rural roads (e.g. “tar and chip” roads) below the current 50 mph threshold.
McInnis: Agree
4) To further reduce traffic crashes on rural roadways, I support making Delaware’s rural road network more “self-explaining” using road surfaces and roadside design that convey a continuous visual message to drivers, providing more effective guidance than intermittent signage alone.
McInnis: Agree
5) To reduce crashes at intersections, I support the use of single-lane urban roundabouts and engineering those roundabouts to be slow speed junctions, keeping vehicle speeds under 20 mph at all potential collision points.
McInnis: Neither Agree or Disagree
6) Is there anything else about your record as an elected official, your experience or your views that you think is relevant to improving traffic safety in Delaware for the people you wish to represent in the 154th General Assembly?
McInnis: Reducing speed is the number one priority in my district. Daily displays of speed exhibition by motorcycles and custom after-factory additions, disrupt residential areas. Exhaust systems which sound like gunshots are a nuisance to the communities and should be outlawed.
