At Bike Delaware’s 2013 Strategic Vision and Vote on November 15, “State Authorized Funding for Bicycling Improvements” was the top vote getter among 25 candidate goals. While Delaware’s pro-cycling momentum is undeniable, there is no guarantee that it can be sustained. But that momentum has to be sustained. It took a long time to create our…
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Between now and December 9, you can join (or renew your membership in) Bike Delaware for only $25. We need your active support as a member of Bike Delaware. It is a fact of our democracy that people need to organize in order to be heard by government. Gun owners are a powerful constituency in…
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It needed 66.67% (2/3rds) to pass. But it got 66.53%. A measure to double Alameda County‘s transportation sales tax to a full 1 cent and use the proceeds to fund a variety of transportation improvements, including over $600 million dollars dedicated to walking and bicycling, came agonizingly close to passage, but ultimately failed at the…
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by Melissa Burke Delaware News Journal November 16, 2012 Like any state transportation secretary, Shailen Bhatt hears a lot of pleading. Would you put up a traffic light? Fix this pothole here? Build a wider ramp to there? His agency can’t grant each wish – nor will it try to. Under Bhatt, DelDOT has stopped…
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Published in Cap’n Transit Ride Again November 16, 2012 ….if transit is going to get people out of their cars, they have to choose it over driving. When people choose to make a habit out of taking the bus or the train, it’s because it provides a greater value than driving. When people choose to…
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WHAT: Bike Delaware Strategic Vision 2013 (SV2013): Vote on cycling advocacy goals for 2013 WHEN: November 15, 5 to 8PM (unstructured program, come for as long as you can) WHERE: WILMAPCO, 850 Library Avenue, Suite 100, Newark, Delaware. Map HERE. Register HERE. When cyclists are united and focused on the future, we can reach out…
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By Denis Cuff Contra Costa Times 11/07/2012 A measure to double Alameda County’s transportaton sales tax to a full 1 cent was narrowly failing at the polls, but the outcome could change when a large number of mail-in ballots are counted. With all precincts reporting, Measure B1 garnered 65.5 percent of the vote — short…
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Bike Delaware World Headquarters November 6, 2012 Polls open at 7AM and close at 8PM. If you’re not completely certain where your polling place is, this handy tool provided courtesy of the great state of Delaware will tell you where you need to go: DEPARTMENT OF ELECTIONS-POLLING PLACE LOCATOR Redistricting has taken place…
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“[O]ne of the best ways we can improve our quality of life, and promote healthy lifestyles at the same time, is to make our state more walkable and bikeable. In the next year, working with Representative Keeley and Senator Venables, we will launch the First State Trails and Pathways Plan. I am proposing that we…
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DNREC has put together this awesome 5 minute video on Governor Jack Markell‘s First State Trails and Pathways Initiative: connecting Delawareans to better health connecting Delaware neighborhoods to parks, schools and local businesses connecting communities to each other connecting people of all ages…to the places they want to go Video Narrator: “Governor Jack Markell envisions…
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