{"id":182210486,"date":"2010-10-10T22:01:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T22:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=182210486"},"modified":"2010-10-10T22:01:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T22:01:26","slug":"in-delaware-complete-streets-mandate-comes-to-mean-routine-accommodation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=182210486","title":{"rendered":"In Delaware, Complete Streets Mandate comes to mean \u201cRoutine Accommodation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

[B’ Spokes: While Maryland was rated by LAB in having the best policies, some how Delaware’s comments sounds much like what happens here, no commitment to make dedicated, stand-alone, or strategic investments in on-road bicycling. In fact routine road accommodations has given us ZERO% progress over the last seven years. Thanks SHA for all your hard work, I’m sure things would be worse without your attention.]
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When Governor Jack Markell signed Executive Order #6<\/a> on April 24, 2009, ordering the creation of a \u201cComplete Streets\u201d 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 \u201cFree at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!\u201d<\/p>\n

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In reality, however, an informal \u201cComplete Streets\u201d policy has been in effect at DelDOT for a number of years, just with a much less exciting name: \u201croutine accommodation.\u201d And, as DelDOT has pointed out<\/a>, such multi-modal accommodation has been happening routinely in DelDOT projects, just with less fanfare and without the sexy name of \u201cComplete Streets\u201d.<\/div>\n
So, what has \u201croutine accommodation\u201d meant for bicycling in Delaware? The most important thing to keep in mind is that \u201croutine accommodation\u201d is not a commitment to make dedicated, stand-alone, or strategic investments in bicycling (or walking, for that matter). Instead, it\u2019s a commitment to keep these other ways of getting around in mind while improving roads for car and truck travel. The policy explicitly applies to \u201croad reconstruction<\/a>\u201d and projects that \u201cwidens [sic] the pavement width<\/a>\u201c.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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[B’ Spokes: While Maryland was rated by LAB in having the best policies, some how Delaware’s comments sounds much like what happens here, no commitment to make dedicated, stand-alone, or strategic investments in on-road bicycling. In fact routine road accommodations has given us ZERO% progress over the last seven years. Thanks SHA for all your … <\/p>\n

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