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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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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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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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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