Thank you for the suggestions. With regard to the climbing lane, we will revise the paragraph to read,

"In August 2009, the City proposed a bicycle-climbing lane on Monongahela Boulevard (US Route 19 and WV Route 7) between Eighth Street and Evansdale Drive. This lane will be located along a steep slope of a highway with a 45 mile per hour speed limit within the City limits and will be recognized as an important means for permitting cyclists of various skill, strength and experience to travel by bicycle to important destinations within the City. As a result of extensive City, WVDOT and MPO electronic communication and two meetings, the bicycle-climbing lane can be installed once the following actions are completed:

· MOU executed to define the funding arrangement, and

· Traffic operations plan approved by WVDOH District 4. The traffic operations plan will specify how traffic will be managed during WVU events when vehicles are permitted to park on the shoulder on which the bicycle-climbing lane will be installed. funding is available

With approval and funding, the bicycle-climbing lane could be installed in the summer of 2012."

With regard to the County Commission stakeholder needs, we will delete County Commission from the stakeholder list since the the MPO represents the County Commission on transportation and we already have the MPO stakeholder needs stated. With regard to WVU and DOT Secretary stakeholder needs, similar to your suggestion, we will enter "To Be Determined". We added "Yet" because we have contacted WVU and WVDOT (you) and hope to add their needs to the plan before January 31.

We are working on MBPv14wchanges that will incorporate the above changes as well as changes in response to other reviewers and will release it this week.

Thanks again for your diligence in carefully reading the plan and your providing such thoughtful and insightful comments.

Frank D. Gmeindl
Chairman, Morgantown Municipal Bicycle Board
LCI #1703
491 WilsonAvenue
Morgantown, WV 26501
304-376-0446
Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles

On Dec 27, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Keller, Perry J wrote:

Two other suggestions. The climbing lane project is detailed more than you would normally put in a plan. The historical information is good, but probably not best suited to be in a long range plan. Also, where the County Commission, WVU and DOT Secretary are mentioned as stakeholders, you may want to put “Not Contacted” or some other qualifying remark since there is no reference to discussions with them or any items following their listing.

From: Frank Gmeindl [mailto:frank.gmeindl@comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 10:00 AM
To: Terry Hough
Cc: Bicycle Board; mmccabe@cityofmorgantown.org; Wes Nugent; Jaime Lewis; david mckain; Adam Henry; christophergluck@gmail.com; Paul Steele; Andrea Soccorsi; Barbara Shellito; Christiaan Abildso; Ken Martis; margaret Roberts; Roy Nutter; Terrence Moore; Jeff Mikorski; Ed Preston; mwise@boparc.org; Bill Austin; Shoukry, Fouad N; Warner, Richard L; Keller, Perry J; WSTAFFORD@wilbursmith.com; Tom Arnold; Bruffy@busride.org; Christopher Fletcher
Subject: Re: Morgantown Bicycle Plan

Terry,

Please find attached, two files:
v12CommentsHough.docx: your marked up copy with our responses adjacent to your comments.;
MBPv13wchanges.docx: an updated version of the plan that shows the changes that we made in response to your comments as well as to comments from Chris Fletcher and Bill Austin.
I hope we have converged to a plan that all those on the distribution of this message will support. However, the only plans that don't continue to change are those that are never implemented. So, we remain open to suggestions to improve this one so that it will get implemented.

The versions of the plan and the comments that we receive with our responses to the comments can all be found at http://db.tt/Bse1rpGr .

Frank D. Gmeindl
Chairman, Morgantown Municipal Bicycle Board
LCI #1703
491 WilsonAvenue
Morgantown, WV 26501
304-376-0446
Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles