Dear Senators and Representatives: On behalf of the League of Women Voters of Delaware, thank you for your support of the Bike and Pedestrian Improvements program in last year’s Bond Bill. We ask that you continue your support in the FY14 Bond Bill. We urge you to keep intact the Bike and Pedestrians Improvements…
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Between May of 1997 and March of 2008 (over 10 years), Delaware’s unemployment rate was between 3 and 4%. But for the last four years, unemployment has stubbornly stayed above 7%. Today, it is 7.3%. And, if you look at the data, that number is not coming down. It looks stuck. If you are older…
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WALKABLE BIKEABLE DELAWARE 2013 SUMMIT Active Transportation, Healthy Families May 1 | Dover, Delaware REGISTER HERE SUMMIT PROGRAM DelDOT Secretary Shailen Bhatt will speak at the Walkable Bikeable Delaware 2013 Summit on May 1 in Dover. Secretary Bhatt spoke at the National Bike Summit in Washington DC in 2012. His agency also proposed over $10…
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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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By Randy Cole Maintenance and Operations Division Delaware Department of Transportation DelDOT’s Division of Maintenance and Operations is responsible for maintaining over 13,000 miles of highways (not to mention over 1,500 bridges, 95 buildings and 1 ferry!). We have a formidable job. Maintaining this road system is a complicated logistical challenge and one that strains…
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In the proposed FY14 Delaware capital authorization bill recently released (Senate Bill #15), the Bike and Pedestrian Improvements program authorization has been cut to zero. This program was funded at $10.25 million in the FY13 capital authorization passed last year (House Bill #410). (That earlier authorization is not changed by SB15; the Department of Transportation can still spend those…
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Bike Delaware is joining with DelDOT to co-sponsor site licenses in Delaware for an important national webinar: Wayfinding Options for Cyclists Wednesday, December 19 | 3:00 to 4:15 p.m. | Dover and Newark *** Register Here *** Bicycle wayfinding signs are different than other signs placed in the right of way because they are part of…
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by Melissa Burke Delaware News Journal November 16, 2012 Like any state transportation secretary, Shailen Bhatt hears a lot of pleading. Would you put up a traffic light? Fix this pothole here? Build a wider ramp to there? His agency can’t grant each wish – nor will it try to. Under Bhatt, DelDOT has stopped…
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Have you been getting all kinds of letters from national groups about the threat to the Recreational Trails Program? Coalition for Recreational Trails – Save RTP! IMBA – Save RTP! Rail-to-Trails Conservancy The reason these email alerts have been going out is that under MAP-21, the new federal surface transportation authorization law passed by Congress…
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