WILMAPCO, the City of Wilmington and DelDOT invite you to the next Community Meeting for the Bridging I-95: Connecting the Community Study. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 6 from 6:30-8:00 p.m., at the William Lewis Elementary School, 920 N. Van Buren Street, Wilmington.

During the meeting, community members and stakeholders will have the opportunity to share their thoughts on the progress of design ideas that have been developed for a “cap” over I-95 in the City of Wilmington between the 6^th Street and Delaware Avenue bridges. 

DelDOT will host an informal TAP Overview Webinar on September 1, 2022, to address any questions or concerns.  Please contact Michael C. Hahn at michaelc.hahn@delaware.gov or 302-760-2273 to receive the webinar meeting link. 

DelDOT will present the Draft 2022 Delaware Freight Plan prior to submitting it for Federal approval. The public is invited on Monday, September 12, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. to review the document and provide public comment. 

These in-person events will be conducted at three locations, one in each county:

Questions, comments or written material can be submitted by September 12, 2022 to: Attn: Freight Project Manager, DelDOT Planning, PO Box 778, Dover, DE, 19903 or by contacting DelDOT Community Relations at 1-800-652-5600 (in DE) or 302-760-2080, also via email dotpr@delaware.gov.  

The State is offering rebates for the purchase or lease of electric vehicles through DNREC’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program and incentives for the installation of public, fleet, workplace and multi-family charging stations through DNREC’s Electric Vehicle Charging Equipment Rebate Program.

As reported by Delaware News Journal, "The nearly $200 million project, dubbed 'Restore the Corridor,' is on budget and on schedule to wrap up next year. The project began in early 2021 and will provide needed maintenance to the skeletal structures of the interstate's mile-long viaduct that cuts through Wilmington and the numerous bridges that make up the 58-year-old artery. Construction crews will also have repaved the entire segment of highway between the Christina and Brandywine rivers, repair overpasses, replaced signs and installed new guardrails, among other smaller tasks and safety improvements."

The latest report, “Freight Resilience Planning in the Face of Climate-Related Disruption”, provides a summary of current practices, methods, and gaps in freight resiliency planning to inform the development and improvement of freight resiliency planning to address climate change and extreme weather risks. Climate change is causing more frequent and more severe extreme weather events. In 2021 alone, the U.S. experienced 20 separate billion-dollar weather and climate change-related disaster events and the cumulative costs of these disasters between the years 2016 and 2021 exceeds $742 billion dollars, which is more than one-third of the total cost of the previous 42 years combined. Resiliency can be integrated into State and local freight planning across many different planning processes, documents, and programs and this report highlights different ways states organize and communicate their freight resiliency planning and operations efforts.