For the next 9 days (until December 9), you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. It is a fact of our democracy that people need to organize in order to advance their interests. Gun owners are a powerful constituency in this country but only because they are organized by…
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If you were unable to attend Bike Delaware’s 2013 Strategic Vision and Vote on November 15, you can still vote online here. Please tell us who you are and then rank your support of the following 10 candidate goals (the leading vote getters on November 15). You can indicate the level of your support for…
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by Carol Ireland President White Clay Bicycle Club The biking season is winding down for many of us as the holiday season is ramping up. We have feasted at the Thanksgiving table and perhaps worked off some of those extra calories with a bike ride or two. With December come various festivities, not the least…
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The National Charrette Institute will be presenting a FREE webinar today at 1PM on Transit Oriented Development (“TOD”). The purpose of the webinar is to show how everyone involved in a TOD project – from the project sponsor to the community-at-large – can work together to produce an exemplar project in timely manner. The webinar…
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Between now and December 9, you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. We need your active support as a member of Bike Delaware. It is a fact of our democracy that people need to organize in order to be heard by government. Gun owners are a powerful constituency in…
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It needed 66.67% (2/3rds) to pass. But it got 66.53%. A measure to double Alameda County‘s transportation sales tax to a full 1 cent and use the proceeds to fund a variety of transportation improvements, including over $600 million dollars dedicated to walking and bicycling, came agonizingly close to passage, but ultimately failed at the…
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by Melissa Burke Delaware News Journal November 16, 2012 Like any state transportation secretary, Shailen Bhatt hears a lot of pleading. Would you put up a traffic light? Fix this pothole here? Build a wider ramp to there? His agency can’t grant each wish – nor will it try to. Under Bhatt, DelDOT has stopped…
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Published in Cap’n Transit Ride Again November 16, 2012 ….if transit is going to get people out of their cars, they have to choose it over driving. When people choose to make a habit out of taking the bus or the train, it’s because it provides a greater value than driving. When people choose to…
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WHAT: Bike Delaware Strategic Vision 2013 (SV2013): Vote on cycling advocacy goals for 2013 WHEN: November 15, 5 to 8PM (unstructured program, come for as long as you can) WHERE: WILMAPCO, 850 Library Avenue, Suite 100, Newark, Delaware. Map HERE. Register HERE. When cyclists are united and focused on the future, we can reach out…
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By Denis Cuff Contra Costa Times 11/07/2012 A measure to double Alameda County’s transportaton sales tax to a full 1 cent was narrowly failing at the polls, but the outcome could change when a large number of mail-in ballots are counted. With all precincts reporting, Measure B1 garnered 65.5 percent of the vote — short…
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