Before yesterday’s (first ever) joint meeting between the Wilmington Bicycle Advisory Committee and Newark Bicycle Committee, we received an email from reader CS saying she wished she was able to attend: “So much of the suburban area where we live is just plain impossible to negotiate unless you are in a car…Our kids are trapped in our…
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Here at Bike Delaware’s new World Headquarters, we are excited about tomorrow’s workshop on a “bicycle highway” (or “trail” or “greenway” or “pathway” or “off-alignment multi-use path” or whatever you want to call it) connecting Wilmington and Newark. A lot of people, including the Governor, the General Assembly and Bike Delaware have worked very hard…
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Yesterday (September 22) was “World Carfree Day” which we know because Senator Coons’ office told us (while simultaneously giving a very nice shout-out to Bike Delaware on the Senator’s blog.) Senator Coons’ staff is clearly on the ball. (And doing our job for us.) Read the Senator’s blog HERE.
Where Bicycling Shows Up in the State’s Spending Priorities About a month before the Delaware General Assembly passed “Walkable, Bikeable Delaware“, Governor Jack Markell signed Executive Order #26, releasing an updated “State Strategies for State Policies and Spending“. What the heck are “State Strategies for State Policies and Spending”? Well, in a nutshell (also known…
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Is it possible to build a limited access “I95” for bicycling between Wilmington and Newark? Hop on and turn one way and arrive in minutes at the Wilmington Riverfront and the Wilmington Train Station? Or turn the other way and head to the Pomeroy Trail and downtown Newark? Let’s find out. Meeting details HERE.
Meeting yesterday, the Sussex County Council discussed its 2012 – 2018 Capital Transportation Program Request to DelDOT. Among the County’s identified transportation priorities is the 17 mile Lewes-to-Georgetown bike route, a long discussed and long overdue project. Last week, the 6 mile Wilmington-to-New Castle Industrial Track, in New Castle County, became the first project in…
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In May the General Assembly passed a Resolution – with a little help from Bike Delaware, Nemours and others – directing DelDOT to build “multi-use paths for pedestrian and bicycle user travel within and between cities and towns in Delaware on independent right-of-way outside of the right-of-way of existing roadways.” Combined with the recent vote…
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A brief recap of the Amish Country Tour on Saturday Sept. 10 Not even a 50% chances of rain (NOAA) was going to get in the way of this one. A record 1,700+ riders participated in the Amish Country Tour on September 10, shattering last year’s number by over 400. On hand for the first…
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By Drew Knox, President, Bike Delaware – In the first article in this series, I discussed a tremendous step forward for Delaware, and for bicycling in our state, when the General Assembly allocated in June $5,000,000 for state bike routes in the 2012 state budget. I described that as a home run as that was…
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