Tag: DelDOT

Making cycling and walking safe, convenient and fun in Delaware

Meet Shailen Bhatt

Governor Markell Nominates New Transportation Secretary Along with the League of Women Voters, the Delaware Nature Society, the Civic League for New Castle County, the Milltown-Limestone Civic Alliance and Delaware Greenways, Bike Delaware asked Governor Jack Markell to appoint a visionary leader for Delaware’s next DelDOT Secretary. Meet Shailen Bhatt: Read civic groups letter to…
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May 27, 2011 0

Delaware House and Senate Pass Walkable Bikeable Delaware

Following up on a unanimous vote by the Delaware Senate just two days earlier, the Delaware House also voted unanimously on May 12 to approve Walkable Bikeable Delaware, directing the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) to “create contiguous systems or networks of walkways and bikeways within and between cities and towns in Delaware in order…
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May 14, 2011 4

DelDOT’s “Complete Streets” Policy is a “Routine Accommodation” Policy for Road Projects

When Governor Jack Markell signed Executive Order #6 on April 24, 2009, ordering the creation of a “Complete Streets” policy at DelDOT, many Delaware bicyclists were giddy.  If the Delaware bicycling community were blessed with its own version of Martin Luther King Jr., he might have yelled out “Free at last!  Free at last!  Thank…
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October 10, 2010 1