In September, Delaware opened up the most ambitious and expensive bicycle project in our history: a safe, direct, flat and paved bikeway route between the Wilmington Riverfront and downtown New Castle (including the state’s longest bicycle bridge by far, a football field-long bike bridge spanning the Christina River). But that does NOT mean we are…
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TODAY: If you live in or near Milton and want to learn more about the proposed new trail (or just want to come out and show your support for it to make sure it gets built!), there will be a DelDOT public workshop in Milton today (Monday) at 6:30PM (Milton Public Library, Room 5, 121…
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At a press conference yesterday at Christiana Care’s Visiting Nurses Association, Delaware Greenways and the Delaware Bicycle Council announced $30,000 and $20,000 grants respectively for two new “connector” trails that would make the just-completed Wilmington-New Castle Greenway (“Markell Trail”) directly accessible to tens of thousands of people. Delaware Greenways announced a $30,000 grant provided by…
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Decades after it was first proposed and after nearly a decade of stubborn advocacy and hard work, Delaware is officially opening the long-awaited Wilmington-New Castle Greenway today at 3PM at the Dupont Environmental Education Center in Wilmington. It’s a project of superlatives: Delaware’s biggest-ever cycling network improvement project – creating a safe, direct, flat and paved pathway between the…
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Thanks to strong support from State Senator Ernie Lopez, an ambitious project to build a paved bike path between Lavinia Street and Federal Street, and to connect the now-isolated Wagamon’s West Shore subdivision into Milton using an abandoned railroad right-of-way, will break ground next year. Part of the new pathway will cross the Ingrams…
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If you weren’t in Dover on Thursday, here’s what you missed!
AARP wants people to be effective advocates for All Ages and Abilities cycling in our communities in Delaware, which is why they are the Presenting Sponsor of the 2018 Walkable Bikeable Delaware Summit. The Summit will feature America’s leading engineering experts on cycling who will be in Delaware for only one day! From these pro-cycling,…
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Effective Advocacy ≠ Complaining One of the most common misconceptions about advocacy is that advocacy and complaining are related. That is largely wrong. Instead: Effective Advocacy = Solutions If you want to be an effective advocate for more and better cycling in your community, you can do so by being someone who can bring practical…
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Spending Money Nearby, Instead of on Fuel, Makes a Community Healthy, Wealthy and Cool According to AAA, owning, insuring, maintaining and fueling a personal vehicle costs the average household about $9,000 a year per vehicle. That’s what makes transportation – not food or clothing or healthcare or our personal electronics – the 2nd largest household…
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If you’ve driven north into Wilmington on I95 anytime recently, you might have noticed some mysterious activity – including two huge cranes – happening in the Christina River: This is Delaware’s biggest-ever cycling project. It’s the final missing piece of an over 7 mile long bikeway extending from the Wilmington Riverfront to downtown New Castle.…
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