High Gas Prices in Metro Augusta Leads to More Cyclists

Friday, May 2nd, 2014

Becky Lambert heads to work every day on two wheels instead of four.

An avid cyclist, Lambert views the alternate mode of transportation not only as more environmentally friendly and health conscious than driving her car but also as a way to save money that would be spent at the gas pump.

Lambert and her husband, Nevin, drive from their Evans home each morning to the Savannah Rapids Pavilion where they cycle nearly seven miles down the Augusta Canal towpath and another mile through Harrisburg. The Lamberts both work at Georgia Regents University. Becky is a clinical research associate for the university’s Cancer Center, and Nevin is a professor of pharmacology on the Health Sciences campus.

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