I’m reading Daniel Simons’ and Christopher Chabris’ book Invisible Gorilla. You’ve probably seen their video as it is one of the best-known modern experiments in psychology and a YouTube sensation with over 11 million hits. It shows two teams of three students passing basketballs. As a test, viewers are asked to silently count the number…
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Sometimes It’s the Little Things It’s exciting when something BIG is launched that makes bicycling safer, more fun, or more convenient – like the Pomeroy Trail in Newark, or painted bike lanes as part of a Pave & Rehab project. But sometimes, a little thing can be almost as exciting, like a new bike…
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***FLAT, SCENIC BACKROAD CYCLING IN AMISH COUNTRYSIDE*** ***Earlybird Registration Deadline is July 31*** Pedaling through scenic back roads in tandem with Amish buggies, being surrounded by fields dotted with farmers steering horse-drawn farm implements as they harvest fall crops, is part of the scenery that makes Delaware’s Amish Country Bike Tour a memorable ride for…
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Three days short of a year after Bob Wheeler died tragically, after being hit by a car while out on a recreational ride, a new area in the Smyrna Memorial Garden was dedicated. On June 25, six WCBC/Bike DE members, Amy Wilburn (chair of the Delaware Bicycle Council), and Anthony Aglio and Jim Westhoff from…
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WHAT: DelDOT/DRBA Public Information Meeting Connecting Phase I and II of Wilmington – New Castle Industrial Track WHEN: Monday, July 8, 2013 4 pm – 7 pm WHERE: Howard J. Weston Community Center 1 Bassett Ave # 1 New Castle, DE 19720 After years of planning, effort and investment, a seven-mile long “bicycle highway”, the Wilmington-New Castle…
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Many bicycle rides cross states that are measured in hundreds of miles and many days. The White Clay Bicycle Club, Bike Delaware’s most generous sponsor, offers an alternative that is modest in time, effort and stamina (a bicycle ride nearly anyone can do) that crosses and “doublecrosses” an entire state in only 31 total miles…
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by Sophie Egan Published in the New York Times June 13, 2013 It took only a few days for reports of the first cycling accident involving New York’s new bike-sharing program to begin circulating. But experts and growing experience from bike-sharing programs in other cities make clear that bicycling can be a safe mode of…
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The League of American Bicyclists’ Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) program provides a roadmap to improve conditions for bicycling and guidance about how to make a better, more bikeable community a reality. As a part of the program every year the League also rates (and therefore compares) communities all over the United States in terms of how…
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Research shows that the largest share of the community is “interested but concerned” about bicycling; this group may be nervous riding with traffic or may lack confidence in their cycling skills. The Newark Bicycle Plan seeks to increase the ease of bicycling for these citizens with improvements to off‐road routes, low‐volume streets and educational programs…
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Yesterday the Joint Committee on Capital Improvement of the Delaware General Assembly voted – unanimously – to approve capital budgets for DelDOT and DNREC that include new funding for walking and cycling. BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS (DELDOT) In last year’s Bond Bill, the Joint Committee approved a request from the Governor and DelDOT to fund the…
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