By Denis Cuff Contra Costa Times 11/07/2012 A measure to double Alameda County’s transportaton sales tax to a full 1 cent was narrowly failing at the polls, but the outcome could change when a large number of mail-in ballots are counted. With all precincts reporting, Measure B1 garnered 65.5 percent of the vote — short…
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Bike Delaware World Headquarters November 6, 2012 Polls open at 7AM and close at 8PM. If you’re not completely certain where your polling place is, this handy tool provided courtesy of the great state of Delaware will tell you where you need to go: DEPARTMENT OF ELECTIONS-POLLING PLACE LOCATOR Redistricting has taken place…
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With a flood of last minute surveys coming in, we are extending our 2012 candidate survey by 24 hours to make sure we catch any last minute responses. What do candidates running this year for the Delaware General Assembly and Governor think about walking and bicycling, and about making them better? They’ve now got until…
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Imagine you are running for public office in Delaware. What issues are you going to talk about in your campaign? What isues are you going to work on if you are elected? Unless you are some sort of ideologue, you’re going to talk about and then work on the issues that you hear about from…
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What do candidates running this year for the Delaware General Assembly think about bicycling, and about making bicycling better? They have 1 week left to tell us! Here’s one of the coolest things about this survey: just one call or email from just a single constituent can be enough to get a candidate to respond. If…
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Featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer – As the number of bicyclists on Philadelphia streets has risen, cyclists and city officials have seen a counterintuitive result: The number of bike crashes and deaths has declined. This “safety in numbers” phenomenon has been documented elsewhere, and safety experts believe it is because motorists become more alert to…
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After years of incredible hard work by the City of Newark, Delaware’s newest rail trail – the Pomeroy Trail – will finally open officially on Monday morning. Senator Carper, who obtained the federal funding for the Trail, and Governor Markell, whose First State Trails and Pathways Initiative is a plan to build many more such…
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Cycling in the Netherlands was on its way out. But in the 1970s cycling’s long decline first slowed, and then reversed. Today, in Amsterdam and other Dutch cities, more people get to work by bicycle than by any other mode. Does this have anything to do with the U.S., or Delaware? Maybe not. But it’s…
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The Delaware Bike Summit will feature national speakers, local, and state officials. What: Coming this Friday, the 4th Annual 2012 Delaware Bike Summit will bring together bicycling advocates, community leaders and elected officials to hear from national speakers and to create strategies on how to make Delaware more bicycle friendly. · DelDOT Secretary Shailen Bhatt…
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by the Chicago Bicycle Advocate Published August 23, 2012 There is no question that many of the car versus bicycle cases that my law firm handles arise from intersection collisions. For the most part those crashes are caused by the driver simply not seeing the bicyclist for one reason or another. Many times the driver…
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