A recent story in The Examiner featured trail-building efforts in Blue Springs. That city has been slowly building up a trail network over the last 17 years, and now has a plan for a city-wide network of 30 miles. One challenge in Blue Springs has been the lack of a stream corridor or [...]

Today Mission Road in Fairway closed for an entire year for a bridge replacement at Shawnee Mission Parkway. Mission Road is a popular route for bike commuters, so here is a possible bike-friendly detour.

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This is the levee on the north bank of the Missouri River, looking west at the Broadway Bridge, with the Heart of America Bridge directly behind. It’s a beautiful levee that’s just waiting to be used as a trail…

I can’t believe my eyes, but the rumors are true! Real, live, U-Racks have materialized in Downtown KC. These racks are on 12th Street, and were recently installed as part of the downtown streetscape master plan. Hopefully we will see more as the streetscape plan is implemented incrementally throughout the Loop.
There [...]

Finally, at long last, dangerous storm drains and grates the one at the right are an endangered species.  New KCMO Bike/Ped Coordinator Deb Ridgway has been hard at work jump-starting the long-delayed BikeKC plan, which includes a big project to replace dangerous storm drains.
The Water Department is currently soliciting bids on three contracts to replace [...]

This one is random yet interesting…  Parks Board member Aggie Stackhaus speaks out in favor of bike lanes on the city’s boulevards.
“Why can’t we accommodate bicycle lanes on our boulevards?” she asked. “I want bike lanes and I am not even a bicyclist.”

Prime Buzz: Hurricane Aggie
   That Kansas City Parks Commissioner Aggie Stackhaus is a [...]

[ October 6, 2007 7:00 am to October 7, 2007 1:00 pm. ] This two day ride event features rides on both days, a swap meet, and an antique bike demonstration.  Everything goes down in and around Lawrence, Kansas.

More info at the Lawrence Bicycle Club.

[ October 6, 2007; 8:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] This benefit ride for Kansas Citians living with HIV/AIDS offers 10, 18, and 35 mile rides along the Mill Creek Streamway trail in Johnson County.

More info at www.aidswalkkansascity.org/ride

If you don’t have plans yet for Saturday, please consider heading out to Mid-Missouri for BikeMO, the Missouri Bicycle Federation’s annual fund-raising ride. It’s a great ride through scenic, rolling hills of rural Callaway County, and it supports MBF’s ongoing lobbying and education efforts to make Missouri more bicycle-friendly.
Learn more and register online at [...]

Last month it was a Johnson County strip mall, this month it is Arrowhead Stadium. Once again they take on an auto-centric destination. In this case the place doesn’t just lack bike racks, it actually bans bicycles.
Some bicyclists came to the strip mall’s defense since no one had ever asked for a bike rack [...]