By James WilsonExecutive Director | Bike Delaware The Cape Gazette and WRDE Coast TV both report: Delaware’s safe yielding law for cyclists is “controversial” in Lewes. I saw that controversy for myself a couple of weeks ago when I testified to the Mayor and Council of the City of Lewes, who had put Delaware’s safe…
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Last year 32 people were killed in Delaware for this “crime”: they were walking in the wrong place at the wrong time Very few of those deaths received any coverage in any Delaware media in 2019 beyond a short article with a few sentences paraphrasing a police report. So those 32 shattered families grieved in…
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When he was killed on April 6 ten years ago, Michael Gropp was only 16 years old. Today, he would have been 26 years old. I still have a vivid recollection of the insinuating questions raised immediately after the crash that killed him ten years ago today. Michael was killed while crossing Christiana Road (SR 273)…
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Dear Governor Carney, Thank you for declaring “bicycle repair facilities” as among “Necessary Retail and Services Establishments” that may stay open during the COVID-19 emergency! In a situation where DART has slashed bus service across the state and hundreds of thousands of workers across multiple sectors of Delaware’s economy (including the restaurant, hospitality and a large…
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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…
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The theme of the 8th annual Walkable Bikeable Delaware Summit (May 2 in Dover) is “Dutch Ideas for Delaware.” As a result of over 40 years of innovation, most short trips in the Netherlands today are accomplished using a bicycle. The goal of the 2019 summit is to learn, directly, from leading Dutch experts on…
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Every single year in Delaware between two to three dozen people are struck and killed by motor vehicles while walking. Between 2008 and 2017, that made Delaware the second deadliest state in America (pedestrian fatalities per capita) for pedestrians (behind only Florida ). We can do something about all this unnecessary death and grief, and…
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Do you own a car? Most people in Delaware do. But if you’ve ever lived here without owning a car you know that it can be extraordinarily difficult trying to get where you want to go in Delaware without one. In fact, it can be more than just difficult. It can be deadly. (Delaware is…
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Decades after it was first proposed and after nearly a decade of stubborn advocacy and hard work, Delaware is officially opening the long-awaited Wilmington-New Castle Greenway today at 3PM at the Dupont Environmental Education Center in Wilmington. It’s a project of superlatives: Delaware’s biggest-ever cycling network improvement project – creating a safe, direct, flat and paved pathway between the…
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I don’t get any health insurance, or even a free bike, but my job as executive director of Bike Delaware does have some other perks. And one of the best perks are the cycling stories. As soon as I meet someone and they learn I work for Bike Delaware, I invariably hear a new cycling…
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