Delaware’s new bicycle signs are up in New Castle
Over the past 10 years – and compared to every other state in the United States – Delaware has been extraordinary. Under former Governor Markell and continuing with Governor Carney, state government has made significant investments in infrastructure for people cycling and walking.
No city in Delaware has benefited more from these investments than New Castle, where the Wilmington-New Castle Greenway (aka the “Markell Trail”) – a safe, direct, paved, flat and nearly uninterrupted non-motorized seven-mile travel route between the Wilmington Riverfront and downtown New Castle – opened last September.
Even in New Castle, however, not everyone knows how to access the city’s amazing new trail, which underlined the serious need for appropriate “wayfinding” signage. In July of 2015 (long before the trail opened!) Bike Delaware began working with DelDOT to secure the needed regulatory approval. It wasn’t easy. Believe it or not, transportation signs are highly regulated by the U.S. Government in Washington DC. And New Castle’s color-unique signs to help cyclists get where they want to go are the first of their kind (i.e. at the state level) anywhere in the United States.
Check out this short slideshow of New Castle’s colorful, and useful, new signs for cyclists:
The first color-unique wayfinding signs for cyclists in Delaware are on the ground in New Castle. (Photo credit: Erik Ball/DelDOT.)
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I am looking for a complete and accurate map of new castle county delaware bike trails and bike routes to travel around new castle county. Can anyone help me find one?
Check out this website for bicycle trail maps of Delaware: https://deldot.gov/Programs/bike/biking_in_delaware/index.shtml?dc=maps
Check out this website for bicycle trail maps of Delaware: https://deldot.gov/Programs/bike/biking_in_delaware/index.shtml?dc=maps