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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For the next 9 days (until December 9), you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. It is a fact of our democracy that people need to organize in order to advance their interests. Gun owners are a powerful constituency in this country but only because they are organized by…
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If you were unable to attend Bike Delaware’s 2013 Strategic Vision and Vote on November 15, you can still vote online here. Please tell us who you are and then rank your support of the following 10 candidate goals (the leading vote getters on November 15). You can indicate the level of your support for…
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by Carol Ireland President White Clay Bicycle Club The biking season is winding down for many of us as the holiday season is ramping up. We have feasted at the Thanksgiving table and perhaps worked off some of those extra calories with a bike ride or two. With December come various festivities, not the least…
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The National Charrette Institute will be presenting a FREE webinar today at 1PM on Transit Oriented Development (“TOD”). The purpose of the webinar is to show how everyone involved in a TOD project – from the project sponsor to the community-at-large – can work together to produce an exemplar project in timely manner. The webinar…
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