On Tuesday, March 3rd the Missouri House Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on HB 642.  This bill would direct MoDOT to develop a policy for fairly accommodating all road users – bicyclists, pedestrians, transit users, the disabled, in addition to motorists.  HB 642 is a second attempt to pass a Complete Streets bill in [...]

Cycle City recently moved its Platte County store from I-29 and Barry Road in KC to Parkville.  The new address is 6328 Lewist Street, Parkville, MO – which is in the Parkville Commons strip mall at the southwest corner of Highway 9 and NW 64th Street. The new store will include running gear in addition [...]

March 9th at 4:00 p.m. the city’s new Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee will hold its third meeting.   On the agenda this month are a presentation on the Bike Friendly Communities program, bike/ped counts, and discussion of the committee’s action plan for 2009-2010.  While no public testimony will be taken, the meeting is open to [...]

If you spend any time in Westport you might have noticed some new U-Racks popping up around the neighborhood.  Westport businesses are spending over $1 million on a big streetscape project, and it includes the new bike racks.  Most feature a kokopelli-esque design, but some near coffee houses include a coffee mug design.  So far [...]

The KC Star has an update on efforts to extend Katy Trail State Park to Kansas City.  The State of Missouri is extending the trail using $18 million from a legal settlement with Ameran, the company that owns the abandoned Rock Island line between the town of Windsor and Pleasant Hill – just beyond the [...]

Last month Kansas City had what seems to be our first ever roller races, with much success.  This weekend it happens again, with a crew from the Twin Cities coming down to participate.  For the uninitiated, roller races or goldsprints are stationery bike races kinda like what you saw in the movie Triplets of Belleville, [...]

This weekend there is a party to kickoff the Tour de Cure, a fund raising ride for the America Diabetes Association.  It’s Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at Grinders.  Here is the notice from the association’s Christie Hammond, including RSVP info:

Don’t forget about the Tour de Cure Kick-off Party this Saturday, March 21! Bring friends [...]

The Kansas City Bicycle Clubs organizes some really great rides like the Fountain Tour and the Summer Breeze.  One way they are able to do this is by exchanging volunteers with the KC Track Club.   Right now they need volunteers for the Brew to Brew Run, and in exchange the track club will help staff [...]

A new program called B-Cycle is holding a  national competition to pick some lucky cities to receive a bike sharing system.  You might have heard of bike sharing systems like Paris’ Velib or Washington, DC’s SmartBike.  They distribute bike stations all over the city.  You just pick up a bike, ride it to your destination, [...]

Thanks to local cyclist Matt Garrett for sending in this photo of some new bike racks at the Sermon Community Center in Independence.  The mask design of these racks is a tie-in with a popular community theater located inside the Sermon Center.  The community center is across the street from a new transit center and [...]