It's time for a genuinely bike friendly mayor!
Wednesday is the first public forum for candidates running for Mayor of KCMO. It's a perfect chance to meet the candidates and ask about their views on bicycle/pedestrian safety, encouraging more bicycling, creating bike lanes, parking facilities, etc. Cycling issues are beginning to recieve the attention [...]

Shortly after the Pitch once again exposed the dismal state of KCMO's bike network plan, the city has posted a good version of the proposed route map.  Folks at City Hall still say that signage for these routes should start going up by the end of the year. This is primarily a network of on-street [...]

Local Alleycat race organizer Forester is back with a special Thanksgiving event. This time racers will go grocery shopping for Thanksgiving dinner items to be donated to a soup kitchen. More info on the Sweetest Plum blog or the race flier.

Safe Routes to School is a national initiative to increase the number children walking and biking to school. Both the Missouri and Kansas Departments of Transportation are starting local Safe Routes to School programs whereby schools and community groups can get apply for grant money for things like educational programs and sidewalk and street improvements.  [...]

KC is hosting this year's annual Missouri Trail Summit, and Friday night the Missouri Bicycle Federation is leading an urban bike ride.  Everyone is invited to join us as we show off the city.  The ride leaves at 5:30 p.m. from the Missouri Department of Conservation's Discovery Center at 47th at Troost, just east of [...]

Sad but true… After seeing my bicycle fatality map, the Pitch asked KCMO for a list of bike lanes in the city. Even though we have so few bike lanes that they can be counted on one hand, no one at City Hall can do it. There is no list.

The Pitch: The [...]