“[O]ne of the best ways we can improve our quality of life, and promote healthy lifestyles at the same time, is to make our state more walkable and bikeable. In the next year, working with Representative Keeley and Senator Venables, we will launch the First State Trails and Pathways Plan. I am proposing that we…
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DNREC has put together this awesome 5 minute video on Governor Jack Markell‘s First State Trails and Pathways Initiative: connecting Delawareans to better health connecting Delaware neighborhoods to parks, schools and local businesses connecting communities to each other connecting people of all ages…to the places they want to go Video Narrator: “Governor Jack Markell envisions…
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The University of Delaware Institute for Public Administration, in cooperation with the Delaware Department of Transportation and the Delaware Office of State Planning Coordination, will host Complete Communities Delaware Summit 2012. The event will take place on November 13, 2012, at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino. Cost to register for the Summit is $25. For…
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WHAT: Bike Delaware Strategic Vision 2013 (SV2013): Vote on cycling advocacy goals for 2013 WHEN: November 15, 5 to 8PM WHERE: Newark, Delaware Register HERE. November 15: Bicycle Advocacy for the Busy Majority On November 6, Delawareans will vote on who we want to send to Dover and to Washington, DC to guide and decide…
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What do candidates running this year for Governor and for the Delaware General Assembly think about cycling, and about improving cycling in Delaware? Along with our partners Sussex Outdoors and Delaware Greenways, Bike Delaware asked them. And they answered: 3 out of the 4 candidates running for governor, and 48% of all the candidates running…
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A total of 115 candidates for Governor and General Assembly will be on the ballot on November 6. 54 of them – 47% – took the trouble to respond to our survey. A big Bike Delaware thank you goes out to all of them! The survey is now closed. Along with our partners Sussex Outdoors and Delaware Greenways, we will…
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With a flood of last minute surveys coming in, we are extending our 2012 candidate survey by 24 hours to make sure we catch any last minute responses. What do candidates running this year for the Delaware General Assembly and Governor think about walking and bicycling, and about making them better? They’ve now got until…
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Here’s one of the coolest things about the survey Bike Delaware (along with partners Sussex Outdoors and Delaware Greenways) is conducting of all candidates running for the General Assembly: just one call or email from just a single constituent is usually enough to get a candidate to respond. If a candidate tells you he/she hasn’t…
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Imagine you are running for public office in Delaware. What issues are you going to talk about in your campaign? What isues are you going to work on if you are elected? Unless you are some sort of ideologue, you’re going to talk about and then work on the issues that you hear about from…
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From the League of American Bicyclists – After years of advocacy and months of preparation, the new federal transportation bill, MAP-21, goes into effect next week. As we’ve been explaining in our Navigating MAP-21 campaign, states have a lot of flexibility in how they spend their transportation dollars. Over the past few months we’ve been…
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