KanBikeWalk Action Request Email: Your Immediate Action is needed to stop this assault on rail-trails in Kansas! A bill has been introduced at the State House in Topeka, HB 2735. Hearing is schedule for Monday, Mar 5 at 1:30 PM. It could cost recreational trails over $100,000 per year statewide. It is an attempt to [...]
Bicycling under Attack Again in US Senate
October 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Contact your US Senators Again Today to Save Bicycle and Pedestrian Funding. Click HERE to take action now. It’s happening again. Just one month ago, Sen. Coburn (R-OK) failed in his efforts to strip funding for Transportation EnhancementsProgram (TEP) from the six-month transportation extension. The bicycle community generated over 75,000 responses to that attack on bicycling and [...]
83rd Street Now Legally Open to Bicyclists
September 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It is now officially, legally, certifiably lifted. The Ordinance removing the non-motorized vehicle ban on 83rd Street in De Soto has been advertised, as required by state law, in the Olathe News section of the Kansas City Star (see page 2 of the link, furthest right column – you know like where you usually ride [...]
83rd Street Bike Ban in DeSoto Lifted
September 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Tonight by a vote of 6-1, the DeSoto City Council voted to lift the 12-year-od ban for non-motorized traffic on 83rd Street from Kill Creek Rd east to its city limits with Lenexa. Council is going to discuss reducing the 45-mph speed limit, possibly to 35-mph, in the near future, which would improve the safety [...]
83rd Street Bicycle Ban Up for Review
September 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
