Between now and December 9, you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. We need your active support as a member of Bike Delaware. It is a fact of our democracy that people need to organize in order to be heard by government. Gun owners are a powerful constituency in…
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WHAT: Bike Delaware Strategic Vision 2013 (SV2013): Vote on cycling advocacy goals for 2013 WHEN: November 15, 5 to 8PM (unstructured program, come for as long as you can) WHERE: WILMAPCO, 850 Library Avenue, Suite 100, Newark, Delaware. Map HERE. Register HERE. When cyclists are united and focused on the future, we can reach out…
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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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by Matt Wempe, League State and Local Advocacy Coordinator Published in LAB blog September 6, 2012 It’s a really exciting time to be in bike advocacy. With the states working on implementing MAP-21 and kids returning to walking and biking to school we’ve been hearing about successes large and small. Read about LAB’s advocacy roundup,…
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Finding a Route Forward Under MAP-21 July 6, 2012 Published on the League of American Bicyclists blog Last week, Congress did what many thought impossible – they passed a new transportation authorization bill. President Obama is expected to sign the bill into law on Friday. Unfortunately, that achievement came at the cost of a…
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Getting and Leveraging Public Funds: Five Lessons from Delaware By Darren Flusche League of American Bicyclists Published in American Bicyclist (May/June 2012) Delaware is a tiny state with less than 1 million people, but there have been some big victories for biking and walking here during the past year. While each state has its own…
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DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS: DECEMBER 18 Walkable, Bikeable Delaware 2011 Campaign: 1) League of American Bicyclists: “$5 million dedicated to Bicycling in Delaware — ready to match with federal funds” 2) League of American Bicyclists: “How Delaware made statewide bike funding history with CMAQ” 3) Walkable, Bikeable Delaware If you’d like to nominate this campaign for the…
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November 8: Bicycle Advocacy for the Busy Majority There are a lot of worthy things that Bike Delaware could work on in 2012 (see the enormous list below). But we learned this year that if you want to get big things done, you have to be smart, strategic and focused. So please help us out by…
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November 8: Bicycle Advocacy for the Busy Majority If you could get one important thing done for bicycling next year, what would it be? This is not an idle question. We learned this year that it is an extraordinarily urgent one as moving government in a new direction requires energy, patience, intelligence…and, most importantly, focus. The list…
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Cross-posted from League of American Bicyclists’ blog. By Darren Flusche League Policy Analyst By tapping into Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) improvement funds for bicycling projects – the first time ever in Delaware – Bike Delaware and its allies have opened the door for the future funding of bicycling projects that give people options to substitute their cars…
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