Courtesy of WDEL 1150 AM Wilmington – Biking and walking between Wilmington’s riverfront and New Castle will soon be a lot easier. A six-mile path through nature will soon connect Wilmington with New Castle. For now, a two-mile stretch or Phase 1 of the New Castle Industrial Track Greenway Trail is complete. “Our goal is…
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Please join us for a small celebration: What: New Castle County Industrial Track Greenway Trail Ribbon Cutting Where: Rt. 273-Greenways Trail Head, 903 Delaware Street, New Castle When: Friday, June 8, 2012 at 2:30PM Contact: Kristin Dwyer, New Castle County Executive Office-395-5107 (Note: The ribbon cutting was originally scheduled today, but was changed to tomorrow.) 2:32PM: Remarks from County Executive…
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By Darren Flusche — Has anyone ever tried to tell you that there are too few bicyclists to reduce traffic congestion in any noticeable way? Well, new data shows that it doesn’t take large reductions in driving to see major improvements in traffic flow. In 2011, total vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the United States…
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By Karl Hassler – Can you imagine what it would be like to wake up on a beautiful morning and be able to ride safely from your Newark-area home to your job in Wilmington on a 12 mile bike trail? You get to work and feel like you’ve already had a vacation! You passed people…
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Just a little over one year ago, the Delaware General Assembly passed “Walkable, Bikeable Delaware“, which called on the state to “create contiguous systems or networks of walkways and bikeways within and between cities and towns in Delaware in order to provide travelers with the opportunity for safe, convenient, cost-effective and healthy transportation via…
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By CHRISTOPHER B. LEINBERGER Published in the New York Times May 25, 2012 Until the 1990s, exclusive suburban homes that were accessible only by car cost more, per square foot, than other kinds of American housing. Now, however, these suburbs have become overbuilt, and housing values have fallen. Today, the most valuable real estate lies…
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By David Byrne Published in the New York Times May 26, 2012 This summer the city’s Department of Transportation inaugurates a new bike-share program. People who live and work in New York will be able to travel quickly and cheaply between many neighborhoods. This is major. It will make New Yorkers rethink their rethink their…
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By ADAM NAGOURNEY Published in the New York Times May 19, 2012 …Bicycling [in Los Angeles] is no longer the purview of downtown messengers or kamikaze daredevils. Its advocates include hipsters who frequent the bicycle repair cooperative known as the Bicycle Kitchen (which, experiencing growing pains, is about to move to bigger quarters) and middle-class…
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Bike Delaware’s Press Release | DNREC-DelDOT’s Joint News Release | BFS Ranking | DE Report Card New Castle, Delaware, May 22, 2012 – The League of American Bicyclists, in its annual national ranking of Bicycle-Friendly states, moved Delaware into the #10 slot, a significant jump from the #18 placing in 2011. In the first ranking…
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Courtesy of the League of American Bicyclists: Shailen Bhatt is the Secretary of Transportation for the state of Delaware, which moved up dramatically in the 2012 Bicycle Friendly State Ranking released on Tuesday. He spoke with the League of American Bicylcists in April about why he bikes and wants to make cycling accessible to…
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