Kent County Convention and Visitors Bureau partners with Bike Delaware

KCCVB supports Bike Delaware in the distribution of promotional materials during the 23rd Annual Amish Country Bike Tour and Race on Saturday, September 12 out of Dover. Offered are 15, 25, 50, 62 and 100 mile loops plus 25 mile timed race through Amish Country. 4 excellent food/rest stops with Amish-baked pies and cookies plus healthy foods and beverages. After tour party featuring live folk bands and catered picnic lunch, yard games, bike rodeo for kids and more. Friday night kayak tour and lodging packages starting at $55 per night. Register by August 21 and save $5 per person, and same-day registration also encouraged! Register online HERE or call 800-233-5368. Raises funds for prostate cancer research, bike tour fund, YMCA and Amish schoolhouse education programs. Great fun for all ages and abilities. Mapquest: 411 Legislative Avenue, Dover, DE 19901. Click HERE to register!

Also check in with Bike Delaware's Events or Home page.

More than 30 volunteers answer the call to become NDG Trail Stewards

The special focus of these volunteers will be stewardship of the Northern Delaware Greenway Trail, a ten-mile ribbon of green that extends from the Delaware to Brandywine River. Appropriate for bicycle and walking, the trail supports an active lifestyle within minutes of most New Castle County residents’ door. Press Release HERE. Become a volunteer HERE!

Bike Delaware partners with Transportation for America, signs in support of HR. 2724

Bike Delaware joined over 140 national, regional and state organizations, writing to request support for HR. 2724, the National Transportation Objectives Act of 2009, introduced by Representatives Holt, Inslee, and Carnahan. This legislation addresses the current and future needs of our economy, health, energy security, housing and community development, and environment, including the urgent need to tackle global warming emissions from the transportation sector. The measure establishes a unifying mission for the federal surface transportation program and sets needed and achievable performance targets, including goals to increase system safety, to repair and maintain existing assets, and to reduce congestion and carbon emissions through increased use of transit, rail, marine, and non‐motorized transportation.

See HR. 2724 HERE
Send your own on-line letter HERE in support of HR. 2724
Check voting records of our own: Carper - Castle - Kaufman

Call to Action! Write in Support of Complete Streets on the St. Georges Bridge

At present there are no truly safe non-motorized crossings of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, creating a huge impediment to connecting Delaware’s networks of safe routes for bicycles. Fatalities have been recorded on the Reedy Point Bridge, as well as near misses on the Summit Bridge and the St. Georges Bridge in its current lane configuration.

The benefits of this proposal go well beyond bicycling. Pedestrians, runners, even those with disabilities will have access to breathtaking views of the canal, its ships, the Route 1 Bridge and Delaware’s scenic vistas for as far as the eye can see. People will be drawn by the span’s magnificence, a technological marvel of its day. When the C&D Canal Park is completed, there will be even more demand for a safe non-motorized canal crossing.

This is a historic opportunity, but will require a strong showing by Delaware cyclists and sponsoring organizations. Please email Carol Ann Wicks, Secretary of DelDOT, with your support of this proposal: carolann.wicks@state.de.us

Example text letter w/send to addresses at bottom HERE
Letter sent on behalf of Bike Delaware HERE
Power Point Presentation, by Mario Nappa HERE
Bikeway feasibility study by DMjM Harris, April 2005 HERE

Call for big, bold change! Sign the Petition

Every six years, Congress sets the country's transportation and infrastructure priorities - allocating hundreds of billions of dollars for projects that shape our communities for generations. This year's re-authorization of the federal transportation bill is our country's best chance to create a system where cyclists and pedestrians are safe, trains are faster and run cleaner, public transportation is widely available and efficient, roads and bridges are in good repair, and Americans everywhere benefit from a smarter network of transportation alternatives. Our new platform shows our leaders how to use this extraordinary opportunity to create the 21st Century infrastructure we need.

Make sure your representatives and senators hear your voice - and the voices of thousands of regular Americans - calling out for big, bold change. Use this convenient, pre-written letter automatically configured when you add your address!