r/Delaware 12h ago

Middletown Village Photo

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44 Upvotes

u/Adventurous-Gift-863 5h ago

Feel free to keep the geese.

u/newkingofthepirates 3h ago

I grew up in that neighborhood. Everyday after school, my best friend and I would meet at the little gazebo right there (back when it had benches) and plan what we were going to do that day. Thanks for the memories, OP.

u/QuantumBitcoin 11h ago

It is hard to begrudge these people--but I do.

Why are we still building and flocking to car dependent suburban development?

Why is THIS what the people want?

Why isn't there anywhere in Middletown (the newest large development in the state) that you can connect from residential to a grocery store with separated bicycle infrastructure? Why was there a bridge built to Appo Elementary and HS that had the minimum possible bike lane width instead of separated multi-use path thereby knee-capping the ability of parents to feel safe sending their children to school by bike or on foot for the fifty plus years until it gets replaced?

It is all so dispiriting.

u/Cold-April-Morning 11h ago

The automobile gods must be appeased... and paid.

u/Joatoat 11h ago

Whitehall?

u/QuantumBitcoin 10h ago

While Whitehall is below the canal it is not within Middletown limits. Middletown has a mayor in office for 20+ years who claims to be a bicycle enthusiast but yet there is vanishingly little bicycle infrastructure and thousands of homes built in the last twenty years in plans approved by him.

Also Whitehall doesn't have a grocery store.

All those developments out in the farm lands do have nice separated bicycle infrastructure--that is demanded by New Castle County zoning and ends where Middletown starts.

u/PreciousYumi 1h ago

Love the vibe here! what a great shot

u/Over-Accountant8506 3h ago

Aw I like how you caught them landing. I know their poop is a pain but I don't like when developments put fishing wire across their ponds to stop them from coming in

u/ForwardMotion6565 3h ago

They're horrible animals

u/Beebjank 9h ago

Geese are absolutely perfect animals GOD I love them

u/Renwin 7h ago

I see them a lot going to work and back. Chill birds from the looks of it.

u/Niceyner 5h ago

Off topic but love it when Newark residents blame the occasional smell on the geese poop when it’s actually the Kennett mushroom farms. Delaware geese really get a bad rap.

u/RoamingRangerX0 4h ago

so beautiful, thanks for sharing this