From DelmarvaNOW.com: Lewes celebrates its bike-friendly award! LEWES — [Last] week, the city [was] not only celebrating National Bike to Work Week, but a recent distinction from the League of American Bicyclists. The Bronze Award, which recognizes bicycle-friendly communities, was given to Lewes for its efforts to promote cycling. “The city of Lewes recognizes that…
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National Bike Summit – Save Cycling March 20-22, 2012 Grand Hyatt|Metro Center|D.C. Look for Bike Delaware if you’re in DC for the Summit today, tomorrow and/or Thursday.
Cross-posted from League of American Bicyclists’ blog. By Darren Flusche League Policy Analyst By tapping into Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) improvement funds for bicycling projects – the first time ever in Delaware – Bike Delaware and its allies have opened the door for the future funding of bicycling projects that give people options to substitute their cars…
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The League of American Bicyclists is congratulating Delaware for it’s recent breakthrough. League Policy Analyst Darren Flusche writes: “Accessing federal funds can be a daunting task, even for experienced transportation officials, but it’s one with potentially game-changing pay-off. “Over the past twenty years, most bicycle projects have been funded out of a few dedicated programs.…
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Bike Delaware’s Frank Warnock attended the full League of American Bicyclists (LAB) 2011 National Bike Summit from March 8-10. Anthony Aglio, Delaware Department of Transportation’s (DelDOT) Bicycle Coordinator was also in attendance, invited by the League as a panelist for the breakout session “Follow the Money – Fundamentals of current Transportation Financing”. In what appears…
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Washington, DC – April 28, 2010 – The League of American Bicyclists is proud to announce 16 new Bicycle Friendly Communities (BFC), five renewing BFCs and 19 Honorable Mentions. As we have seen in the last few cycles, the majority of the new BFCs are in the East and Midwest – three quarters of the…
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WCBC was recently chosen by the League of American Bicyclists as its 2010 Bicycle Club of the Year for region 2 (DE, MD, NJ, PA, WV and DC). This award is in recognition of WCBC’s rich, 37 year history of excelling at: reaching out to the community to promote safe recreational bicycling activities; offering cyclists…
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Based on our first annual Bike Summit, and Gov. Markell’s Complete Streets executive order. The application, completed by DelDOT, offers a road map on making improvements to create an ideal Bicycle Friendly State. See the updated 2009 rankings HERE.
