The first phase of Independence’s Rock Creek Trail is now open in the western part of the city.  The first 1.5 mile segment runs from Rotary Park near 23rd and Northern to Country Club Park near 30th and Norton. It’s a small start, but the Rock Creek Trail will eventually run east-west across the length [...]

Maggi Hacker, President of the Johnson County Bicycle Club, has announced the details of an understanding with the Prairie Village Police Department that addresses issues with group rides and the law in that suburb. The agreement is meant to accommodate large group rides while still enforcing traffic laws.  If you participate in one of the [...]

Headstrong for Jake is looking for volunteers to help with a bike rodeo and helmet fitting in Shawnee this weekend…
HEADSTRONG FOR JAKE has been asked to conduct a bike safety rodeo & helmet
event for “Safety Day” at Home Depot- SHAWNEE! This is going to be a
HUGE event ! We have ordered 400 [...]

Johnson County Parks and Recreation has just opened a new section of trail that bypasses an infamous hilly section of the Mill Creek Streamway Trail (a.k.a. Gary L. Haller Trail).  The new lowland option runs between mile markers 5.5 and 7 in the northwest corner of Shawnee Mission Park. The bypass will make more of [...]

Back in December of 2007 we reported on a 3.5 mile extension of the Little Blue Trace Trail from 39th and Selsa in Independence to I-470 south of I-70. After some delay the project has finally been approved by the Independence City Council. Construction is slated for fall of this year.  An additional project will [...]

The Johnson County Sun reports that Kansas Department of Transportation and the city of Lenexa, KS are working to close a gap in the trail along 95th Street.  KDOT will soon add a barrier to the 95th Street bridge over I-435, and Lenexa will construct connections to the bridge with trails on either side.

It looks like last month we spoke too soon about De Soto, KS lifting the infamous ban on bicycles on 83rd Street. At the last minute the town’s City Council decided to delay lifting the ban until after the road is repaved this summer.  It sounds like there is enough support on the City Council [...]

As predicted, the Lenexa’s decision move their big Midnight Bike Ride from closed and well-lit city streets to the dark wilderness of a park was a bust.  The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the supposedly family-friendly move had the opposite effect, while drastically cutting participation.
Meanwhile, Noah Dunker’s Un-Lenexa Midnight Ride provided a nice alternative for the [...]

The suburb of Leawood, KS is looking to become more bike friendly and is planning to apply to the League of American Bicyclists for a Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) designation. Leawood’s goal is part of growing local movement. Lee’s Summit, MO is also working towards a BFC application.  Shawnee, KS already has a Bronze BFC [...]

The far western suburb of De Soto, KS has just lifted it’s long standing ban on bicycles on 83rd Street. The ban was instituted in the 1990s when some misguided folks on the town’s city council decided they didn’t like sharing the road with bicyclists on this particular road. I’m not sure what has changed, [...]