Category: Legislation and Policy

Making cycling and walking safe, convenient and fun in Delaware

Lockman: Cut traffic deaths on Delaware roads below 100 by 2025

Joined by Senator Hansen, Representative Osienski and a dozen of her colleagues, State Senator Elizabeth Lockman recently introduced legislation calling for Delaware to reduce annual traffic fatalities below 100 by 2025. “Traffic deaths have remained roughly constant in Delaware over the last 20 years, averaging over 120 fatalities each year,” Senator Lockman noted. “As Chair…
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April 28, 2022 0

Delaware Votes – Unanimously – to Keep Safe Yielding Law that Reduced Bicycle Crashes

On the very last day of its 2021 legislative session, the Delaware Senate voted unanimously to make Delaware’s safe yielding law permanent. Following a similar unanimous vote by the Delaware House of Representatives on June 17th, the bill now heads to Governor Carney. * Update* On September 17, 2021, Governor Carney signed the bill making…
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July 1, 2021 2

Safe Yielding Law Unanimously Passes the Delaware House

On June 17th, Rep. Larry Mitchell‘s bill to make Delaware’s safe yielding law permanent passed the Delaware House of Representatives. Unanimously. We’ve still got to get through the Delaware Senate, but this is another win for safer cycling in Delaware.


June 19, 2021 0

Why Delaware Kills So Many Pedestrians Every Year and What We Can Do About It

Every single year in Delaware between two to three dozen people are struck and killed by motor vehicles while walking. Between 2008 and 2017, that made Delaware the second deadliest state in America (pedestrian fatalities per capita) for pedestrians (behind only Florida ). We can do something about all this unnecessary death and grief, and…
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January 28, 2019 1

Better Transit, Better Health, Cleaner Air and More Jobs

Do you own a car? Most people in Delaware do. But if you’ve ever lived here without owning a car you know that it can be extraordinarily difficult trying to get where you want to go in Delaware without one. In fact, it can be more than just difficult. It can be deadly. (Delaware is…
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January 11, 2019 0

Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act signed into law

Governor John Carney signed the Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act on Thursday, October 5, in Newark. In addition to Governor Carney, state and local officials, including the bill’s prime sponsors State Representative Larry Mitchell  and State Senator Dave Sokola, attended. We are proud of our work on this important reform of Delaware’s Rules of the Road, which includes:…
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October 3, 2017 3

Delaware Senate Passes Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act

With overwhelming victories in both the Delaware House and the Delaware Senate, the Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act now goes to Governor Carney for action.  


July 1, 2017 5

Decisive Win for Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act in Delaware House of Representatives

With victory in the House, the fate of the Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act is now with the Delaware Senate: Keep Me Informed In Case I Can Help If you would like us to keep you informed about the progress of this legislation and let you know if it needs your help, fill in the form…
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June 23, 2017 1

Key Committee Vote Advances Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act

One vote down. Three more to go. Two votes down. Two more to go. UPDATE: Delaware House of Representatives Decisively Backs Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act abc   Keep Me Informed In Case I Can Help The Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act has bipartisan support in the Delaware General Assembly and was just reported out – unanimously…
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June 8, 2017 0

Mitchell and Sokola Sponsor Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act

Keep Me Informed In Case I Can Help The Bicycle Friendly Delaware Act has bipartisan support in the Delaware General Assembly and we are cautiously optimistic about its passage. But politics is often surprising. If you would like us to keep you informed about the progress of this legislation and let you know if it…
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June 6, 2017 0