De Soto, Kansas lifts bike ban on 83rd Street
2 Comments Published June 25th, 2009 in Advocacy, suburbsThe far western suburb of De Soto, KS has just lifted it’s long standing ban on bicycles on 83rd Street. The ban was instituted in the 1990s when some misguided folks on the town’s city council decided they didn’t like sharing the road with bicyclists on this particular road. I’m not sure what has changed, perhaps just the passage of time and the natural turnover of elected officials. Kudos to De Soto City Council member Mitra Templin for initiating this great change. Now that town elders have legalized bicycling, they are also talking about bringing electricity and running water to the town!
De Soto Explorer: City Council to lift 83rd Street bike ban.
(hat tip to Noah Dunker)
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Excellent! I still have the news clipping from when this all took place… it’s been a LONG time…. so long, that I actually NEVER have gotten to ride this section of road. When I was first getting into road cycling, and got up the distance gall to even consider it, the “incident” occurred — if I remember right, the Warbird and I were going to ride it later that same month. Now, it’s finally time… and time to probably plan a brevet route that heads out to Lawrence and beyond, to immortalize it. Thanks for the good news!