Got this notice from the Adventure Cycling Newsletter. This is a real online petition, not a chain letter. Please sign it and pass along the url to all friends and interested parties.
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By clicking on the following link, you'll be whisked to an online petition that, if you choose, you can sign as a way of supporting the addition of "Bike There" and "Take Public Transit" options to Google Maps. According to text at the site, "The feature would take into account actual bicycle lanes from the locality being mapped, and it would automatically plan a route for a bicyclist, possibly even providing the cyclist options for either the most direct route or the most bicycle friendly (safest) route. The Google Maps-based third-party site byCycle.org [currently] provides these features for two metro areas--Portland, Oregon, and Madison, Wisconsin, and there are countless other mapping initiatives around the world aimed at accomplishing the same goal. We hope that Google will consider building this feature into the core Google Maps service."
http://www.petitiononline.com/bikether/petition.html