Pedestrian and bicycle safety is not getting its fair share.

<img width="124" height="120" align="left" src="http://www.baltimorespokes.org/images/articles/20050725183908603_1.gif" alt="">Bicyclist and pedestrians are over-represented in traffic fatalities: ten percent of trips are made on foot or bicycle, yet 13 percent of traffic deaths nationwide are pedestrians or bicyclists. Yet federal transportation safety dollars have not been used to address this problem.

In Maryland on average ~ every two hours a pedestrian or cyclist bounces off a car and ends up injured or dead.

<a href="http://www.americabikes.org/images/resource/fairshare/fact%20sheet%20-%20Fair%20Share-20051.pdf">http://www.americabikes.org/images/resource/fairshare/fact%20sheet%20-%20Fair%20Share-20051.pdf</a>;

by B' Spokes

Like most people I live a hectic life and who has the time for much exercise? Thanks to xtracycle now I do. By using my bike for daily activities I can get things done and get an hour plus work out in 15 minutes extra of my time, not a bad deal and beats taking the extra time going to the gym. In case you are still having trouble being motivated; the National Center of Disease Control says that inactivity is the #2 killer in the United States just behind smoking. ( http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/bb_nutrition/ ) Get out there and start living life! I can carry home a full shopping cart of groceries, car pool two kids or just get lost in the great outdoors camping for a week. Well I got go, another outing this weekend.
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