By James WilsonExecutive Director | Bike Delaware The Cape Gazette and WRDE Coast TV both report: Delaware’s safe yielding law for cyclists is “controversial” in Lewes. I saw that controversy for myself a couple of weeks ago when I testified to the Mayor and Council of the City of Lewes, who had put Delaware’s safe…
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State Representative Ed Osienski and Gregory Wilps are running to represent the residents of Brookside (just east of Newark) – extending from Library Avenue (in the west) to Harmony Road (in the east) and from Capitol Trail (in the north) to I95 (in the South) – in the Delaware House of Representatives on November 3.…
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State Senator Bruce Ennis and Craig Pugh are running to represent the residents of southern New Castle County and part of northern Kent County – from Middletown and south to Smyrna – in the Delaware Senate on November 3. Bike Delaware sent a short (just 3 questions) survey to them and asked for their views:…
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State Representative Valerie Longhurst and Michael Higgin are running to represent the residents of Bear (south of Pulaski Highway), Wrangle Hill and Delaware City in the Delaware House of Representatives on November 3. Bike Delaware sent a short (just 3 questions) survey to them and asked for their views: “Delaware’s three-year-old law permitting safe yielding…
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State Representative Mike Ramone and Stephanie Barry are running to represent the residents of Pike Creek in the Delaware House of Representatives on November 3. Bike Delaware sent a short (just 3 questions) survey to them and asked for their views: “Delaware’s three-year-old law permitting safe yielding at stop signs by people using bicycles (HB…
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State Representative Gerald Brady and Jordan Nally are running to represent the residents of Wilmington’s Trolley Square and nearby Greeneville in the Delaware House of Representatives on November 3. Bike Delaware sent a short (just 3 questions) survey to them and asked for their views: “Delaware’s three-year-old law permitting safe yielding at stop signs by…
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State Senator Catherine Cloutier and Kyle Evans Gay are running to represent the people of Brandywine Hundred in the Delaware Senate on November 3. Bike Delaware sent a short (just 3 questions) survey to them and asked for their views: “Delaware’s three-year-old law permitting safe yielding at stop signs by people using bicycles (HB 185…
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From Claymont in the north (Senate District 1) to Bridgeville in the south (House District 35), Bike Delaware sent a survey to every single candidate running in a contested race for the Delaware Senate or Delaware House of Representatives on November 3. Of the candidates we contacted, over half (54%) answered. All of their answers…
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Last year 32 people were killed in Delaware for this “crime”: they were walking in the wrong place at the wrong time Very few of those deaths received any coverage in any Delaware media in 2019 beyond a short article with a few sentences paraphrasing a police report. So those 32 shattered families grieved in…
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In 2015 the Dover City Council committed to creating a more bicycle-friendly Dover when it adopted the Dover Bicycle Plan. That plan called for the construction of the Senator Bikeway as its #1 priority. An east-west bike route through the heart of Dover, the Senator Bikeway would connect neighborhoods with schools and businesses so that…
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