Newark Bike Project promotes sustainable, affordable transportation alternative

Published September 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM EDT The Newark Bike Project works to make getting and repairing bikes easier to encourage their use around the city. The community bike and repair shop in the Newark Shopping Center is a nonprofit run by volunteers that help sell bicycles and teach community members how to repair their own bikes. Jamie Magee helped start the volunteer-based Newark Bike Project in 2011, getting inspiration from the Urban Bike Project in Wilmington. “In addition to those economic factors, the other thing that helps create more infrastructure is more cycling usage…” Magee said. “When there’s good infrastructure, more people cycle, but also as more people use those infrastructure, that’s the precedent for adding another bike path.” Newark already has separated bike lanes with their own traffic lights. Magee said he hopes to see more bike paths where people want to go – whether that’s to run errands or go out to lunch. The Newark Bike Project offers classes, teaching people how to work on their own bikes. Magee added they also have bikes of all kinds for sale at Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace rates, with between $100 and $200. “You also get the added value of
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