Three days short of a year after Bob Wheeler died tragically, after being hit by a car while out on a recreational ride, a new area in the Smyrna Memorial Garden was dedicated. On June 25, six WCBC/Bike DE members, Amy Wilburn (chair of the Delaware Bicycle Council), and Anthony Aglio and Jim Westhoff from…
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There are a lot of things we do while bicycling to avoid accidents and injuries. For safety’s sake, we should be doing these kinds of things: Safe behaviors: for example, stopping at stop signs and red lights; riding defensively, watching what motorists around us are doing that could create problems for us; riding single file…
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By Carol Ireland, President, White Clay Bicycle Club – Yesterday, one of our own passed away. He was doing what he loved and what brought him in contact with people who cared dearly for him. A slim cyclist, he was dwarfed by the car that hit him. But Bob Wheeler was a giant when it…
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We remember Michael Gropp, who was killed on April 6, 2010 – 2 years ago today – at the intersection of Rt. 273 and Brownleaf Road east of Newark. Michael and his girlfriend lived on opposite sides of Rt. 273, which is 82 foot wide and has 4 travel lanes near Michael’s neighborhood. Michael was…
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Two years ago, Michael Gropp was killed at the intersection of Rt. 273 and Brownleaf Road east of Newark. Michael and his girlfriend lived on opposite sides of Rt. 273, an 82 foot wide, 4 lane arterial road near Michael’s home. Michael was walking her home at 10PM on April 6, 2010 when he was struck…
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In a new report of the cost to the nation of motor vehicle crashes, AAA found that traffic crashes in 99 urban areas cost $299.5 billion in 2009. AAA based its estimates on Federal Highway Administration data that place dollar values on 11 components: 1) property damage 2) lost earnings 3) loss of household activities 4)…
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We remember Michael Gropp, who was killed 1 year ago today at the intersection of Rt. 273 and Brownleaf. Michael and his girlfriend lived on opposite sides of Rt. 273, an 82 foot wide, 4 lane arterial road in east Newark. Michael was walking her home at 10PM on April 6, 2010 when he was…
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After the death of Michael Gropp – killed while walking his girlfriend home in Newark last April – Bike Delaware wrote a report for Senator Karen Peterson about how Delaware can invest in infrastructureto prevent similar tragedies in the future. Why does Bike Delaware – a group nominally all about bicycling – advocate for pedestrians?…
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Everyone from Sarah Palin to Barack Obama favors developing more domestic sources of oil. This policy stance is usually presented as a matter of energy independence, especially from “Middle East Oil”. But just because everyone says something is a good idea…doesn’t mean that it actually is.
