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…
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Delaware Governor Jack Markell delivered his 2014 State of the State address yesterday to a packed legislative chamber in Dover. The speech’s highlights included proposals to spend an additional $500 million dollars on infrastructure over the next 5 years and $7 million for a “Downtown Development Districts” grant program. After giving a shout-out to DelDOT…
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2013 Look Back: This article was originally published on May 1, 2013. It was the 8th most viewed Bike Delaware article of 2013. Dover – May 1, 2013 – At the Walkable Bikeable Delaware 2013 Summit in Dover this morning, DelDOT Secretary Shailen Bhatt and DNREC Secretary Collin O’Mara announced Delaware’s new Bicycle Friendly…
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Sometimes It’s the Little Things It’s exciting when something BIG is launched that makes bicycling safer, more fun, or more convenient – like the Pomeroy Trail in Newark, or painted bike lanes as part of a Pave & Rehab project. But sometimes, a little thing can be almost as exciting, like a new bike…
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Newark: May 9, 2013 After a long wait, sharrows have finally landed on Main Street in Newark! Wilmington installed the first sharrows in Delaware on its Market Street downtown in 2010 and Lewes installed some on Bay Avenue last summer. City of Newark Principal Planner (and chair of the Newark Bicycle Committee) Mike Fortner fought hard…
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Dover – May 1, 2013 – At the Walkable Bikeable Delaware 2013 Summit in Dover this morning, DelDOT Secretary Shailen Bhatt and DNREC Secretary Collin O’Mara announced Delaware’s new Bicycle Friendly State ranking. In the sixth annual assessment by the League of American Bicyclists, Delaware achieved a #5 ranking nationally, while placing #1 among all…
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We know what we want. And it all comes back to the “Bike and Pedestrian Improvements” program authorization for the Delaware Department of Transportation. We know what we want because, at Bike Delaware’s Strategic Vision 2013 conference in November and in online voting through December 31, the result was overwhelming. “State Authorized Funding for Bicycling…
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The City of Newark has submitted an application for funding under the federal Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) for sharrows for its Main Street. If approved, the sharrows on Main Street will connect the Pomeroy Trail to New London Road. The “sharrow” (or “shared lane”) pavement marking is a relatively recent pavement marking that was introduced…
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Excerpt from Governor Jack Markell’s State of the State speech, January 17, 2013. Improving our Quality of Life “In the world we now live in, employers survive only when they hire the most talented workers. And talented employees want to work in places they are proud to call home. “Delaware is blessed with beautiful beaches,…
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By Mark Deshon | Much progress has been made on the Pomeroy Trail’s northern section since April’s progress post. Split-rail fencing, final surfacing, and lighting infrastructure has been completed along all of this portion of the trail up to and including the Laird Campus spur. One of the two bridges north of the Laird Campus…
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