From: Frank Gmeindl <frank.gmeindl@comcast.net>

Date: October 26, 2011 11:49:05 AM EDT

To: Bicycle Board <bikeboard@cheat.org>

Cc: Christiaan Abildso <christiaan.abildso@mail.wvu.edu>

Subject: Petition: Keep Ice's Ferry Bridge Open to Bicyclists

Bicycle Board Members,

Please go to

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/IcesFrry/petition.html

and sign the petition to WVDOT Secretary Paul Mattox.  When it gets enough signatures, I'll download, print and send it to him as well as to the cc list.  

Here's what the petition says:

Dear Secretary Mattox:

We, the undersigned Morgantown area bicyclists hereby petition the State of West Virginia to provide means for bicyclists to cross Cheat Lake at Ice’s Ferry during the replacement of Ice’s Ferry Bridge.

Ice’s Ferry Bridge provides the only practical means for bicycles to cross Cheat Lake.  Many local area cyclists as well as visitors to the Morgantown area frequently used Ice’s Ferry Bridge to travel between the Morgantown area to points east of Cheat Lake.  The recent closing of Ice’s Ferry Bridge makes it impossible for us to cross the lake for work and recreation.  

cc:
Ray LaHood, Secretary, US Department of Transportation
Earl Ray Tomblin, Governor of West Virginia
Asel Kennedy, President Monongalia County Commission
Joe Fisher, Chairman Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization