Here are some great photos of two cyclocross races that took place during the recent Christmas blizzard…

Holiday Cross by Chris Thomas

Holiday Cross by Laterne Rouge

Grojte Pris Shawnee photos by J. Smith

The Missouri Bicycle & Pedestrian Federation and the Missouri Department of Transportation are teaming up in an exciting new project to identify high priority bike/ped/ADA projects across the state and integrate them into MoDOT’s next five year construction plan.
Nominate a project
MBPF is coordinating the creation of this wish list for MoDOT and taking suggestions from [...]

Details at tricycletrackstands.blogspot.com

KC Sprints returns from their road show for home town event this Saturday at 6:00 p.m. at Swagger in Waldo, 85th and Wornall in KCMO.  Details at kcsprints.blogspot.com.
Also check out a video of KC Sprints from a recent race in Lincoln, Nebraska.

As we’ve mentioned before, the KC region recently applied for $83 million in TIGER stimulus money for an multimodal transportation package of transit, bike/ped, roads, and freight rail.  Wednesday morning Ray LaHood will be here along with Congressman Cleaver and Mayor Funkhouser to announce we’ve been awarded.  At this time there [...]

Today’s announcement by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood of TIGER transportation stimulus grants included no funds for bicycling.  The City had proposed a bold $12 million project to integrate bicycling and walking into the transportation infrastructure with more bike lanes, parking, safety education, skills building, and bike industry job creation.
The total exclusion of bicycling is surprising [...]

This week the Missouri House of Representatives will consider a bill to establish a 3 foot passing law, requiring motorists to move over 3 feet when passing bicyclists.  The insurance industry killed the last attempt to do this in 2005, but hopefully it will go better this year.
There will be a hearing in the Transportation [...]

State Senator Jolie Justus has introduced a bill to add bicycles to the list of items in the annual back-to-school tax holiday. The goal is to make it a little easier for students to have safe, affordable, and healthy transportation to and from school.  The idea came from Family Bicycles on Wornall.  MoBikePed has more [...]

Uncertainty over federal transportation funding has caused MoDOT to delay opening bids on several projects, including the bike/ped retrofit on the Chouteau Bridge over the Missouri River. Hopefully the delay will be short-lived and not impact the scheduled construction start in May.
The nearby Heart of America Bridge retrofit is not effected, as the construction contract [...]