Today and tomorrow (December 9), you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. The benefits of cycling are myriad and profound: a stronger economy a healthier population more independent and self-confident kids a more resilient transportation system But for Delaware to gain these benefits, a lot of Delawareans have to choose…
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For the next 3 days (until December 9), you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. Streets are not roads. A good road is about traffic throughput. A good street is a much more complex, and interesting, entity. It can be about commerce. It can be about neighborhood. It can…
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For the next 4 days (until December 9), you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. “Resilience” is the capacity of a system to recover from perturbation, disturbance, stress or catastrophe. “Resilience” is different from strength. A bodybuilder may be strong. But if he is vulnerable to being laid low…
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Newark Bicycle Plan Public Workshop – December 6, 4-7 p.m., Newark Municipal Building, 220 Elkton Rd, Newark. Kick-off meeting for the development of the Newark Bicycle Plan. This is a “Drop In” event, where you can come by anytime between 4 PM and 7 PM and participate for 10 to 15 minutes, or hand around…
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But a 100 years ago they were. Starting around the 1920s, streets were taken away from children (and then from the rest of us as well). There are very few people alive today who remember this history. Now public educations campaigns like the ones shown below are unnecessary. They have been internalized and we teach…
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For the next 5 days (until December 9), you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. A few years ago, Delaware and the nation plunged into the worst recession in 80 years. In January of 2008, Delaware’s unemployment rate was just 3.8%. Just two years later, in January of 2010,…
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For the next 6 days (until December 9), you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. Despite our growing medical knowledge, despite ever more sophisticated drugs and medical devices, despite a nationwide drop in mortality from lung cancer, despite a drop in the murder rate and deaths from traffic accidents…
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For the next 7 days (until December 9), you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. “So much of the suburban area where we live is just plain impossible to negotiate unless you are in a car…Our kids are trapped in our neighborhood in terms of bike riding.“ When we…
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For the next 8 days (until December 9), you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. Can bicycling save the planet? Who knows? But bicycling can surely save our pocketbooks. Bike Delaware’s mission is to make bicycling in Delaware a family-friendly and mainstream transportation option so that not every adult…
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