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Making cycling and walking safe, convenient and fun in Delaware

Delaware General Assembly Votes Millions For Bicycling

12:25AM: Following up on a Senate vote less than 2 hours earlier, the Delaware House of Representatives gave final approval to Senate Bill 130, which includes $5 million in dedicated funding for bicycling: Click to expand (+): See League of American Bicyclists blog post HERE.


July 1, 2011 1

Bikes and Small Cars

Crazy Mini-Cooper Drivers   Pucher and Dijkstra have calculated that the bicyclist fatality rate in the United States was about 10 times (1000%) the fatality rate for the occupants of cars and small trucks per mile (or kilometer) traveled (1995). We summarized their work in a recent post (where we delved into the statistics a…
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June 28, 2011 4

Mia Birk: Fear of Cycling

by Mia Birk “I’d like to bike, but…” says the woman in front of me, a Toronto Councilwoman, at a recent forum. This is a phrase I hear all the time in my work creating bicycle-friendly communities. “But I’m afraid to…” She’s in good company! More than 60% of the population is interested in cycling…
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June 28, 2011 0

The Zen of Roundabout Engineering

Two Approaches to Intersection Design New York City: Netherlands:  


June 17, 2011 2

Lewes to Georgetown Route

Overdue Anthony (Tony) Pezone, President, Sussex Cyclists: “As president of the Sussex Cyclists Cycling club I wish to strongly support the rail to trail or rail with trail from Lewes to Georgetown. As the traffic builds in Sussex County due to the influx of tourists and the growth of the population existing roads become more…
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June 14, 2011 2

Bike Parking, View from Orbit

A commenter recently asked where the picture of bike parking seen here Click to expand (+): was taken. If you look closely at the picture, you can see the name of the school in the background: “Vincent Van Gogh”. It turns out that there aren’t actually any schools named “Vincent Van Gogh” in the U.S.,…
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June 11, 2011 2

Senate Confirms Governor’s Transportation Secretary Nominee

Shailen Bhatt, Associate Federal Highway Administrator, to become Delaware’s Ninth Transportation SecretaryDelDOT Press Release — June 9, 2011 Dover — Governor Jack Markell’s nominee for Secretary of the Delaware Department of Transportation, Shailen Bhatt (pronounced “SHAY-Linn BAT”), was confirmed by the Delaware Senate this afternoon. “I would like to thank the members of the Delaware…
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June 9, 2011 0

New DelDOT Head Confirmed by Delaware Senate

By Doug Denison, Dover Post.com Dover, Del. —The Delaware Senate today confirmed Gov. Jack Markell’s nominee to head the state’s embattled transportation agency. New DelDOT Secretary Shailen Bhatt is expected to be sworn in some time in the coming weeks. In the meantime he said he’ll be tying up loose ends at his current job…
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June 8, 2011 0

Bike Parking

Not a race or a ride. Just everyday scenes: Click on image to expand (+)


June 2, 2011 2

$8,220……….$308

Two Numbers to Keep in Mind $8,220: The average annual operating cost of a car $308: The average annual operating cost of a bicycle If you are one of those fortunate folks saving ~$8K every year, and you’re having trouble figuring out how to spend all that extra cash, Bike Delaware can help you.


May 31, 2011 0