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 
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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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Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles