Archive for the 'Advocacy' Category



Today the City Council’s Transportation Committee endorsed a plan to legalize pedicabs in KCMO. Unfortunately the owners of the Country Club Plaza where able to get Councilmember Jan Marcason to carve out an exception for the Plaza. So pedicabs could soon be legal everywhere but the city’s most popular tourist neighborhood.
Please take a few minutes […]

Paseo Bridge Open Houses

This week and next MoDOT will hold two open houses to brief the public on plans for the upcoming bridge replacement project. For more information read our Paseo Bridge page.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and there will be a presentation at 6:00 p.m.
Thursday February 28
North Kansas City Community Center
1999 Iron Street
North Kansas City, MO […]

Bicycle Day at the Capitol

Later this month bicyclists from all over Missouri will descend on Jefferson City for MoBikeFed’s second annual Bicycle Day at the Capitol. It’s a great opportunity to meet your state reps and talk to them one-on-one about bicycling issues. Things like funding bike facilities, improving roadway safety, and prosecuting motorists who kill or […]

Today 15-plus bicyclists braved the nasty weather to show up at the City Plan Commission.  The short story is that the commission voted to approve a proposal to include secured bicycle parking for residents of apartment and condo buildings.  Big names like Hunt Midwest were present to oppose the plan, but in the end only […]

On Tuesday there is an important public hearing on KCMO’s new development code, the law that regulates planning, zoning, development redevelopment, etc. At issue is a proposal to include bicycle parking in businesses, offices, and apartment buildings.  This means more than just a U-rack to use while you run in for a cup of coffee. […]

2007 was a huge year for bicycling in the Kansas City metro area. Here are some of the highlights…
Tour of Missouri
The largest sporting even in the history of Missouri kicked off here in KC on the Country Club Plaza. It was a huge success. The KC stage is rumored to have attracted the […]

KC Climate Action Coalition

Two years ago KCMO Mayor Kay Barnes signed onto the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, an initiative of local governments to tackle to the climate change issues that the Federal government refuses to acknowledge.  Last year new mayor Mark Funkhouser and the mayors of many suburban communities also signed the agreement.
KCMO has been working through […]

Send a quick message to voice your support for the Katy-to-KC connection.
Last month a deal was announced to extend the Katy Trail to the Kansas City metro area. It’s part of a bigger settlement over the Taum Sauk dam collapse and subsequent destruction of Johnson Shut-Ins State Park. This settlement is in open […]

KCMO Planning/zoning update

Let’s Go KC has an update on bicycle, pedestrian, and transit regulations in the city’s new development code, the thing that controls where/what/how things get built in the city.  It is shaping up to be a pretty step forward for making the city more bike/ped friendly, thanks to many of you who wrote letters to […]

Englewood Road

There is a public meeting tonight regarding the widening of NW Englewood west of US 169.  This street is on the city’s BikeKC plan, but I have heard that the city intends build a potentially hazardous sidepath trail, instead of bike lanes.
As many of you know, statistics show that trails alongside roads are often dangerous […]





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