Bicycle Board Members,

The LAB will send on your behalf to Governor Manchin your ideas for spending stimulus money.

Click on this URL to take action on bicycling issues now http://capwiz.com/lab/utr/2/?a=12859566&i=1234&c=

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Following is what I sent:

Soon you'll be deciding to fund "shovel ready" infrastructure projects to stimulate the economy. I urge you to set a goal to make every roadway curb lane 14-feet wide.

14-foot wide curb lanes would enable motor vehicles and bicycles to travel together in the lane.

Last year, bicycle sales almost equaled car and light truck sales [Spiegel]. Wide curb lanes would give people the option of bicycling safely to any destination that they would otherwise drive.

14-foot curb lanes could: . Reduce our dependence on foreign oil; . Reduce obesity and all its attendant issues such as heart disease, diabetes, and health care expense; . Reduce pollution; . Reduce future roadway maintenance expense; . Return some civility to our society.

[Spiegel] Spiegel, Jan Ellen; A Surge in Bicycles Seems to be Waiting; New York Times Business/Small Business, January 01, 2009.

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