Delaware House Majority Leader Representative Valerie Longhurst will lead Delaware’s cycling delegation to Washington DC next week as part of the National Bike Summit. Now in its 14th year, the National Bike Summit unites the voices of bicyclists on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. Cycling advocates from all across the country will have an opportunity to…
Read more
DOVER – January 30 Expert witnesses from Wilbur Elementary School in Bear testified yesterday afternoon to the Administration Committee of the Delaware House of Representatives in favor of House Bill 235 – a bill to make cycling the Official State Sport of Delaware. After hearing the testimony of the experts from the Wilbur School,…
Read more
A bipartisan group of four congressmen last week introduced the “Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Act” in the U.S. House of Representatives. Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Howard Coble (R-NC), Peter Fazio (D-OR) and Michael McCaul (R-TX) are the co-sponsors of H.R.3494, which would, in the impenetrable language of government – “amend title 23, United States Code, with…
Read more
Nobody understands momentum better than cyclists. That’s why, even 30 years after Idaho passed it’s “Idaho Stop” law, this issue has never gone away. by Ken Mcleod Published at League of American Bicyclists August 22, 2013 Idaho passed its law allowing bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and red lights as stop signs…
Read more
If you care about cycling in Delaware but you’ve never contacted your elected representatives in Dover, today would be a good day to do that for the first time. Our elected representatives in Dover will vote THIS WEEK (week of June 17) on DelDOT’s annual capital authorization. It will be up to them to decide…
Read more
LEGISLATORS RIDE ORGANIZED BY DELAWARE BICYCLE COUNCIL May 1 | To Dover, Delaware REGISTER HERE FOR LEGISLATORS RIDE The Delaware Bicycle Council is a sponsor of the 2013 Walkable Bikeable Delaware Summit and is organizing the Legislators Ride that takes places the same day. What is the Delaware Bicycle Council? The Council is a commission of state…
Read more
by Jeff Potter Excerpted from Mackinac Island: “Watch the Bike!” published in Bicycle Times Magazine (Feb/Mar 2013) Bike culture has recently been booming in the U.S. But there’s a little place in the north that’s been in love with bikes for generations: Mackinac Island, Michigan, a historic tourist destination on the Straits of Mackinac, between Lakes…
Read more
What do we normally think about when we think about “politics”? Well, we might think about political campaigns, like the recent presidential campaign between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney with its, literally, billions of dollars of television advertising, 24-hours a day cable news coverage, daily polling and millions of phone calls to individual voters. Or…
Read more
There are a lot of things we do while bicycling to avoid accidents and injuries. For safety’s sake, we should be doing these kinds of things: Safe behaviors: for example, stopping at stop signs and red lights; riding defensively, watching what motorists around us are doing that could create problems for us; riding single file…
Read more
Jun 29 2012 Compromise Vote Package Reinvests in Nation’s Infrastructure, Extends Flood Insurance Coverage for Delawareans, Stops Student Loan Rate Hike WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) released a statement following Senate and House approval of a bipartisan bill that reauthorizes the National Flood Insurance Program, prevents college student loan interest rates from doubling…
Read more
