Today Mission Road in Fairway closed for an entire year for a bridge replacement at Shawnee Mission Parkway. Mission Road is a popular route for bike commuters, so here is a possible bike-friendly detour.

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[ September 21, 2007; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. October 19, 2007; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. November 16, 2007; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. December 21, 2007; 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Location: Westport Road and Broadway Boulevard, KCMO 64111

The KC Bike Fed provides free snacks, pop, and bike repairs for commuters on the third Friday of every month.   More info.

Commute by Bike has a great post on commuting with kids with links to several resources for transitioning kids from sidewalks and trails onto city streets. If you are a cyclist with kids, this is a must-read post.

An Orange Ozone Alert has been issued for Wednesday, which means the air quality will be bad enough to affect children as well as adults with respiratory or cardiovascular problems.  Healthy folks might also notice some effects.
Everyone is encouraged to limit strenuous outside activity between 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.  If you drive, do less [...]

Yesterday The Star published a guest column from a local clergyman who recently started commuting by bike from his home in Leawood to is church in KC’s Red Bridge neighborhood.

AS I SEE IT: It just doesn’t get any better than biking to work
By KEITH D. HERRON
Special to The Star
Getting to and from work can be [...]

Kris Kristofferson and Alli McGraw learned in the 1970s that sometimes you have to band together to survive out there on streets. That lesson holds true for bicyclists as well as truckers. Local commuter Noah is organizing a convoy of bike commuters to join him once a week on his commute from Johnson [...]

Paul Dorn has more thoughts on the new bike commute data from the US Census Bureau.
The U.S. Census consistently undercounts bicyclists; for example counting multimodal (bike/transit) as one “journey to work” mode, typically the longer mode. The Census also ignores non-work trips, which are the majority of all trips.

The US Census Bureau has just released a survey of American commuting habits, and the data for bicycle commuting in KC is pretty bad. Kansas City ranks dead last in bike commuting. 50th place out of 50 cities. The survey counted a paltry 50 bike commuters among KCMO’s 216,000 workers, which rounds to [...]

Cyclist and blogger Jason Preu is now commuting full-time and shares his route from Westheight in KCK to Downtown KCMO.

The 2007 Bike to Work Week was a huge success in the KC metro area. Events all over the region promoted bike commuting and helped people get started. Over 100 people road the Tour de Cowtown, setting new record for local alleycat races. The Commuter Challenge had another record year - 395 people [...]