The Golden Bicycle Helmet Goes to – Of Course – Governor Jack Markell

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The Golden Bicycle Helmet Goes to – Of Course – Governor Jack Markell

May 11, 2016 Cool People 13

At the annual Walkable Bikeable Delaware Summit on Thursday, Delaware’s highest award for service to cycling – only awarded twice before – went to Governor Jack Markell.

Some decisions are hard. Some are easy. Awarding the Golden Bicycle Helmet to Governor Jack Markell – the most bicycle-friendly governor in America – was the easiest decision Bike Delaware has ever made. This slideshow explains why:

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13 Responses

  1. Thanks for your visionary work for bicycling in Delaware, Jack.

  2. We rode bikes with Jack at Battery Park, great day and park!

  3. Great Governor and better person.

  4. Thank you Governor Markell. We also enjoyed the ride in

  5. Yay to more safe biking and walking paths πŸ™‚

  6. Will the issue of few rest areas/bathrooms on many of these paths be addressed? There is only one restroom building in all of Battery Park, and on the New Castle Industrial Trail there are none. Families with kids would appreciate more rest areas, because no one wants to be involved in an accident of that kind, either.

  7. Governor Markell will you please widen New Road in Sussex County before a pedestrian or bicyclist suffers? Thank you.

  8. Wish some of that money was going to our homeless vets. Millions millions spent on bike paths. Homeless still living in the woods. Go figure.

  9. Love Gordon’s Pond Trail & the Canal Trail along North St. George’s & don’t forget to have a terrific sandwich @ North St. George’s Country Store! πŸ˜„ 🚴 πŸ˜„ 🌯 πŸ˜„ 🚴

  10. […] of State Senator Dave Sokola, the co-chair of the committee that wrote the capital budget, and Governor Jack Markell. It’s not a coincidence that Senator Sokola biked to work yesterday (about 60 miles) and Governor […]

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