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 [...]

The Star has a video report on this morning’s Bike to Work Week breakfast on the Trolley Track Trail.  Look close for a glimpse of 4th District City Councilmember Jan Marcason, who rode to City Hall with city planner Bruce Wiggins and a group of city employees.

Be sure to check out the schedule of everything going on this week.  There are several group rides designed help people become comfortable riding in traffic.  Overland Park and Kansas City are hosting breakfast on local trails.  The Commuter Challenge runs all week and includes some awesome prizes and a sweet party at Boulevard Brewery.  [...]

Today at 3:00 p.m. Kansas City, MO Mayor Mark Funkhouser and the City Council will proclaim May as Bike Safety Month and May 14-18 as Bike to Work Week. Deb Ridgway of Bridging the Gap’s Clean Commute program will accept the proclamation and challenge the council to bike, walk, or take the bus to [...]

As reported here earlier, the city of Olathe, KS is preparing to widen 2 miles of 127th Street from Mur-Len to Pflumm. The city took a proactive stance and included bike lanes in this project. Unfortunately those bike lanes have drawn the ire of residents along 127th who are opposed to the road [...]

The 2007 Bike to Work Week is coming up May 14-18. The idea is to get as many people commuting via bike as possible. To that end, several local groups have put to together a huge schedule of events where you can learn more about bike commuting, safely riding in traffic, riding [...]