Tour of Missouri officials have released an independent study showing a $38 million impact on Missouri’s economy, in return for  a $1.5 million invest of taxpayers’ money.  That’s more than a 25 to 1 ROI. $20 million of the impact was attributed to visitors from outside the state.  Spectators were up 13% to half a [...]

Professor Robert Freilich, Ruby M. Hulen Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Professor Freilich will discuss the sustainability movement focusing on how the new Stimulus and Transportation Acts encourage states and localities to adopt sustainable energy policies. He will focus on specific state, city-county, and regional plans that have been successfully implemented and [...]

Last week we mentioned a proposal to dramatically transform the local transportation system by spending a bit of the federal stimulus money on KC’s bike/ped program – bike lanes, trails, crosswalks, ADA, education, etc. This week local City Councilmembers and the local Congressional delegation are  negotiating over what to include in our region’s application for [...]

Today the City Council’s Planning and Zoning committee approved a compromise on angle parking along the 5th Street bicycle route in Columbus Park.  The developer will make 5th Street wide enough to accommodate either the safer back-in angle parking or the more hazardous head-in angle parking, but will wait for the city test it out [...]

Today the KCMO City Council’s Planning and Zoning Committee approved a new development code that includes bicycle parking requirements. This would mean most new businesses and apartments would have to provide parking for customers, employees, tenants, and visitors.
It is anticipated that the full City Council might vote on April 30th, and the law will [...]

Photo by Jeff Denny
If you haven’t heard it yet, BBC World Service was recently in our city to record a big feature story on our attempts to rise above our infamous last-place ranking. They spent several days cycling around the city and interviewing everyone from folks on the street to Mayor Funkhouser, Councilmember Ed Ford, [...]

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 [...]

Cyclist voting inside the Westport-Roanoke Community Center in Midtown.
Yesterday’s election was a good one for cycling. For the first time the bicycle and pedestrian community became organized and asserted itself as an important constituency. Six of twelve incoming City Council members were endorsed by the KC Coalition for Walking and Bicycling. With the [...]

Star columnist and cyclist Mike Hendrick has yet another column on the topic of extending the Katy Trail to Kansas City. He explains that circumstances are better than ever for an extension, but that the fate of the trail is caught in the middle of a nasty political fight between Governor Blunt and Attorney [...]

Don’t forget to vote today for bike-friendly cadidates.  Then go check out MoDOT’s proprosal for widening Route 150 on the south edge of the metro.

From Brent Hugh, Executive Director, Missouri Bicycle Federation
Many of us have attended the previous meetings about the project to
widen Route 150 between Route 71 and Route 291. Route 150 is
currently very [...]