Bicycle Board Members,
While you're reviewing the draft Morgantown Bicycle Plan, you might take a look at Allegheny County's Active Allegheny plan: http://www.activeallegheny.com/theplan.aspx . The Executive Summary and Chapter 2 are mostly relevant to bicycles. If you're at all familiar with Pgh, it's interesting to see how much they can do by just designating on-road bike routes and then where they plan bike lanes, shared-use paths, etc. Table 2-7 provides some unit cost info that we could use to estimate the cost of engineering initiatives in our plan.
The article in the Pgh. Post Gazette: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11047/1125711-455.stm sets a context for the plan and says bicycle commuting in the city of Pittsburgh increased 206 percent from 2000 to 2009. If they can do it, we can do it... but not without a plan.
Frank