Paving of Delaware’s newest rail trail, the “Industrial Track” (formerly Penn Central RR) is well under way. Phase 1 of the project, pictured here, runs almost 2 miles from Delaware Street in Old New Castle to just beyond Boulden Blvd to the north. Beautiful wooden bollards, lining the trail in spots, serve as stabilizers to…
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Representatives of a consortium of Delaware organizations involved with non-motorized transportation will be meeting with Wilmington Area Planning Council on July 15 to draw attention to an un-ranked FY 2012-2015 TIP Bicycle/Pedestrian project named “New Castle Industrial Track/ECGW: Boulden Blvd little league-Wilm Riverwalk”. The Council will have an opportunity to prioritize this project. For those…
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Interesting article in Slate about “bicycle highways” by Tom Vanderbilt: “In the world’s top cycling cities, one finds not muscular riders harried and buffeted by passing cars, but all manner of people—young, old, carrying groceries, carrying kids—riding on networks that have been designed for them. In the Netherlands, for example, where no new road is…
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Right now Congress is working on the Livable Communities Act, which would help communities like these all across America plan for and create better and more affordable places to live, work, and raise families. The bill would provide more than $4 billion in resources for local governments to shape their development through smart planning for…
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Bicycling activity is on the rise. The Outdoor Industry Foundation report from 2006 and Delaware’s 2008 SCORP have some very revealing information about bicycle use for active recreation. The White Clay Creek State Park trail counters also show evidence of increased trail use by bikes. As frequent trail users we’re seeing more kids and families…
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Here at Bike Delaware we’ve been focusedon the Active Community Transportation Act (ACT), and federal funding for “active transportation” generally, for over a year. Why? Basically, three reasons. First, while from the perspective of highway and road funding ACT is a trivial amount of money, for walking and biking it’s huge. Portland provides the context.…
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On Saturday, June 5, the National Park Service officially designated the James F. Hall Trail in Newark as a National Recreation Trail, one of only 31 selected nationally for 2010. The James F. Hall Trail is a popular 1.7-mile cross-town pedestrian and bicycle trail in downtown Newark, Delaware. The 8’ wide hard surface pathway is…
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Everyone from Sarah Palin to Barack Obama favors developing more domestic sources of oil. This policy stance is usually presented as a matter of energy independence, especially from “Middle East Oil”. But just because everyone says something is a good idea…doesn’t mean that it actually is.
Washington, DC – April 28, 2010 – The League of American Bicyclists is proud to announce 16 new Bicycle Friendly Communities (BFC), five renewing BFCs and 19 Honorable Mentions. As we have seen in the last few cycles, the majority of the new BFCs are in the East and Midwest – three quarters of the…
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April 24 marked the 1 year anniversary of Governor Markell’s signing of Executive Order 6, bringing us a statewide Complete Streets policy. Cyclists throughout Delaware have been writing us, wondering when we will start seeing the first green shoots of this historic milestone. First and foremost, it is important to note the executive order, signed…
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