Also Overdue Originally posted: June 15, 2011 Shane Hoffman, Wilmington: “As a resident of Wilmington who works in New Castle, the creation of a Wilmington-to-New Castle bicycle highway would improve my quality of life tremendously. I have attempted to commute to work by bicycle, but the only routes available to me feel much too dangerous,…
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Travel Between Wilmington and New Castle Faster By Bicycle Than By Car? In the “Walkable, Bikeable Delaware” Resolution passed unanimously last week, the Delaware General Assembly declared that BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that in these efforts the Department of Transportation shall create multi-use paths for pedestrian and bicycle user travel within and between cities and…
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Phase 2 of the Wilmington-to-New Castle Bike Highway (aka the New Castle Industrial Track) is not yet built (though it has been funded) and Phase 3 (the last phase) has not even been funded, but Phase 1 was built this summer with ARRA funds. And, although it’s still incomplete as a bike commuter route between…
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Paving of Delaware’s newest rail trail, the “Industrial Track” (formerly Penn Central RR) is well under way. Phase 1 of the project, pictured here, runs almost 2 miles from Delaware Street in Old New Castle to just beyond Boulden Blvd to the north. Beautiful wooden bollards, lining the trail in spots, serve as stabilizers to…
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Representatives of a consortium of Delaware organizations involved with non-motorized transportation will be meeting with Wilmington Area Planning Council on July 15 to draw attention to an un-ranked FY 2012-2015 TIP Bicycle/Pedestrian project named “New Castle Industrial Track/ECGW: Boulden Blvd little league-Wilm Riverwalk”. The Council will have an opportunity to prioritize this project. For those…
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