[IndianaTrails] Cyclists advocate new bike lanes

[kevin whited]

Regarding Bike Lanes,

You have to let you elected officials know that bike
lanes are wanted and needed.  DPW/City of Indianapolis
will not install bike lanes unless they know there is
a demand and at this time due to budget constraints
and a lack of political will, nothing is happening. 
Below is a link to the Mayor's Action Center, send
them an email also notify your local representative. 
I do this every time a new study or article supporting
the implementation of bicycle facilities is written. 
Also join Indiana Bicycle Coalition who works very
hard on our behalf.

http://www.indygov.org/eGov/Mayor/mac.htm

Good Luck,

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> Published: December 06, 2006 09:59 pm
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> Cyclists advocate new bike lanes
> By Austin Arceo
> The Tribune-Star
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> TERRE HAUTE ? Attorney Bill Drummy tries to take
> advantage of nice 
> weather on his lunch hour.
> 
> Weather permitting, he leaves his law office on
> Fourth and Ohio streets
> 
> in Terre Haute and rides his bike to Twigg Rest Area
> and back ? a 
> distance of well more than 10 miles.
> 
> Drummy also supports the city?s efforts to create
> more bicycle lanes, 
> and he voiced his support at a public meeting Monday
> night in which
> city 
> officials discussed long-term plans for trail
> development in Terre
> Haute.
> 
> City officials also discussed the creation of
> bicycle lanes on Ohio 
> Boulevard, which created some controversy after some
> area residents
> felt 
> ignored during the decision-making process and
> others were concerned 
> about cyclists? safety. But cycling advocates
> support the new lanes.
> 
> ?I have many, many clients who are from out of town
> who come into the 
> office,? Drummy said, ?and they?re all very
> positively impressed by the
> 
> fact that Terre Haute, which never had anything
> progressive in the
> past, 
> seems like now has this beautiful bike trail.?
> 
> The city is looking to create several trails within
> the next few years.
> 
> Terre Haute currently has more than 10 miles of
> trails, which includes
> 
> bicycle lanes, and hopes to have more than 35 miles
> of trails within
> the 
> next two to five years.
> 
> ?That?s a somewhat ambitious goal,? said Pat Martin,
> chief planner for
> 
> Terre Haute, ?but nonetheless we?re fairly confident
> that we can
> achieve 
> the goal simply by the projects that we already have
> under design.?
> 
> Officials hope for Terre Haute to become one of a
> handful of Indiana 
> communities designated a ?bicycle friendly
> community? by the League of
> 
> American Bicyclists. The organization?s Web site
> lists Bloomington and
> 
> Carmel as the only two Hoosier cities with that
> distinction.
> 
> ?I think anytime we can broaden our appeal to more
> and more 
> demographics, it improves our competitive position
> when it comes to 
> growth and prosperity,? Terre Haute mayor Kevin
> Burke said, ?and I view
> 
> cities like Bloomington, Carmel, Lafayette [and]
> Fort Wayne as our 
> competitors, so I not only want to compete with
> them, I want to surpass
> 
> them.?
> 
> Last month, the Terre Haute City Council approved a
> partial-park ban 
> along Ohio Boulevard to make way for a bicycle lane.
> But some area 
> residents questioned cyclists? safety if riding
> along the corridor.
> 
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Kevin W. Whited
   
  The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.  Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish.  Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.  ~Iris Murdoch