So the Cordish Co. just spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a snazzy new entertainment district Downtown, and the city spent over $100 million in taxpayers’ money to subsidize the construction. But a recent KC returnee notices that they couldn’t be bothered to spend a few hundred dollars on bike parking.
Fortunately, the situation [...]

Attendance was good at tonight’s City-Wide Trails plan update.  If you missed this one, there is still one more on Thursday at the Shoal Creek police station. Here are the highlights.
256 miles of trails are planned for key city-wide corridors. 90% are multi-use trails and 10% are on-street bike routes.  Several high-priority segments are already [...]

The EarthRiders Mountain Bike Club and Epic Bike are hosting a movie night and Demo Days for tying out all kinds of Specialized bikes.

EarthRiders MOVIE NIGHT and SPECIALIZED DEMO DAYS at Epic Bike and Sport.
Epic Bike & Sport is having DEMO DAYS with Specialized April 3-6. The
Specialized trailer will be there with all kinds of [...]

The Missouri Bicycle Federation reports that a bill has been introduced in the Missouri House of Representatives to allow the Missouri side of the Kansas City metro area to create a regional funding source for trails and other bicycle/pedestrian intrastructure. Northland Representative Trent Skaggs is sponsoring HB 2572, which would allow voters in Jackson, Clay, [...]

The 816 Bike Collective is a new organization that has been forming over the last several months.  Tomorrow they are opening their new space for the first time.  It’s in the Creative Minds Arts Center at 3109 Troost in KCMO. The Collective works to refurbish old bikes and sell/give/barter them to folks. After the demise [...]

©Chris Thomas
Local photographer and cyclist Chris Thomas has just posted the third set in a series of photos documenting urban cyclists in Kansas City. It’s really great work, and worth some time checking it out.  Don’t miss the first and second sets as well.

On Friday, April 18 Senater Kit Bond and MoDOT will have a groundbreaking for the new Paseo bridge. If you can spare half an hour on a Friday afternoon, please go and attend the ceremony as a visible reminder that bicyclists and pedestrians are still fighting for a path on the new bridge. I am [...]

This week MoDOT will hold a public hearing on their plan to widen Route 45 through Parkville (a.k.a. NW 64th Street or Tom Watson Parkway). Right now the plan is very inadequate for bicyclists and pedestrians.  Parts of it are down-right unsafe. If you live, work, or ride in the Northland, please take half an [...]

During the month of April, law enforcement agencies across the metro are will be conducting special operations emphasizing bicycle and pedestrian safety.  For example, there will extra efforts to enforce the laws requiring motorists to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks and to share the road with bicyclists. But the enforcement will apply to all road [...]

The Pitch covers the attemp to pass a Complete Streets bill in Missouri, and MoDOT’s last-minute move to kill the bill that they earlier supported.
The Pitch: MoDOT tosses cyclists over the handlebars
A great way to show MoDOT some love is to ride with us to the Paseo Bridge groundbreaking ceremony on Friday. If you can’t [...]