Bike Delaware Challenge
Most people can’t count the number of times that the people wearing white T-Shirts pass the ball in this video. Can you? Click on the envelope icon below to leave a comment about the number of passes you counted.
How the Dutch Handle the Right Turn Only Lane Problem
No “Pocket” Bike Lanes A Bike Delaware Working Group will meet this Thursday, April 14 to discuss the challenge that right turn only lanes present for bicycle users. A lot of discussion will reference the idea of a “combined” bike lane/right turn lane (a type of “pocket” bike lane, for when roadway width is constrained)…
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An Alternative to Infrastructure
Here at Bike Delaware World Headquarters, we advocate for good infrastructure to increase safety for pedestrians and bicyclists. But good infrastructure costs money and, in these “fiscally constrained” times, we may need to be creative at finding inexpensive traffic calming solutions:
Remembering Michael Gropp
We remember Michael Gropp, who was killed 1 year ago today at the intersection of Rt. 273 and Brownleaf. Michael and his girlfriend lived on opposite sides of Rt. 273, an 82 foot wide, 4 lane arterial road in east Newark. Michael was walking her home at 10PM on April 6, 2010 when he was…
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Cycling for Everyone
“It would be wonderful…[to not] have to be an excellent cyclist just to go down to the corner store….”
How walk friendly were Wilmington, Dover and Newark 2 years ago?
The U.S Census Bureau conducts a major census of the United States once every 10 years. In the intervening years, the Bureau conducts a much smaller survey – the American Community Survey – of 3 million households. ACS data provides more up-to-date (but less accurate) information about U.S. communities. Because of the relatively small sample…
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"Share The Road"?
A bit of Tuesday morning contrarianism from our friends down in Baltimore: Abandon ‘Share The Road’ …The “Share the Road” message doesn’t work. It’s time to abandon it….[in favor of the “Bike May Use Full Lane” sign]… And this is not a unique complaint. Other folks have also complained that the “Share The Road’ sign…
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Fighting for Danny Sheftal
Approximately 10% of Delawareans cannot afford and/or do not own a car. Bike Delaware is fighting to make it safe for people like Danny Sheftal to use a bike for their routine travel needs.
"For the equivalent cost of a single mile of freeway, we have a bike infrastructure."
PolitiFact Examines Portland Mayor’s Claim Portland mayor Sam Adams recently claimed that, for all the value that Portland’s bike infrastructure had brought to Portland, the entire cost of building all of this bicycle infrastructure in Portland was equivalent to the cost of a single mile of highway. That startling claim aroused the interest of the…
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