Bicycle Board Members,

May I have your concurrence on the attached police info card or your recommendations for its improvement? The intention is that this will be printed on a two-sided card similar in size and appearance to a traffic citation. The idea is that police (or anyone that has the cards, e.g. us) give one to a motorist or bicyclist observed disobeying laws whose violation particularly jeopardizes cyclists.

Initiative #3 in the Morgantown Bicycling Plan Enforcement section is, "Send rights and duties postcard to motorists that cyclists or others observed and reported violating bicyclist rights". Initiative #4 in the Enforcement section of the plan is, " Handout rights and duties card along with citation to cyclists who violate rules of the road".

Attached is version 2 of the police info card. It is a result of the Education Committee's work on version 1. I will maintain changes to the document in Dropbox at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9979830/Police%20Info%20Cardv02.docx . You can change it there, too but please use track changes.

After we finalize it, I'll present it to the Traffic Commission with a recommendation that they concur with giving it to the police department. I think education grant money can be used to pay for producing the cards.

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