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 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
KARE: Contact Your US Senator NOW to Protect Bicycling
September 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
An Urgent request from America Bikes: Please help save Transportation Enhancements in the Transportation Extension by contacting your Senators today! It’s easy and takes a minute at the SRTS site. Just click here and enter your ZIP code to direct your input to your Senators. Our Kansas Senator Jerry Moran is seen as a key [...]
KARE – Action Needed for Amended HB 2192-3′ Passing & Dead Red
March 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Thanks to your voices, KanBikeWalk and Kaw Valley Bicycle Club, we’re one step closer to a safer roads for Kansas bicyclists. HB 2192 passed a KS Conference Committee yesterday. It now heads to the House for concurrence, then to Senate for similar concurrence. It is once again time to take action for this important legislation [...]
KARE: HB 2192 – Conference Bill Advances
March 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The following is an update from Bill Lucero, KVBC Lobbyist, working on the 3′ passing and dead red bill on behalf of KS bicyclists: A Conference Committee composed of the Chairmen, Vice Chairmen and Ranking minority members of both chambers hammered out a compromise proposal this afternoon which includes the proposed 3 foot clearance a [...]
KARE: 3’ Passing and Dead Red Bill to KS Senate Floor
March 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The original 3’ passing clearance of bicyclists’ bill and the ‘dead red’ bill were both rolled into HB 2192, the seatbelt safety bill, and approved by the KS Senate Transportation Committee today, March 15. HB 2192 now goes to the Senate floor for a recorded vote. It is NOW time to contact your State Senator to [...]
KARE: KS 3′ Passing Law Needs Your Action NOW
March 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The time has come for you to become an advocate for bicycling in Kansas once again. The proposed 3’ passing clearance legislation in Topeka is coming before the KS Senate Transportation Committee this Thursday, March 10, for a critical discussion and likley vote to amend the legislation into another bill. KanBikeWalk is asking you to [...]
Sen Moran announces Jo Co Town Hall Meeting
March 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
US Senator Jerry Moran has announced a Town Hall meeting this Sunday, March 6 at 3:30 p.m. on the Johnson County College campus (see Sen. Moran’s email below for location information) that may also be attended by US Representative Kevin Yoder for the 3rd District. This is a perfect opportunity to meet Kansas’ newest senator [...]
US-40/K-10 Public Meeting March 3rd in Lawrence
February 19, 2011 By 1 Comment
The Kansas Department of Transportation is holding a public meeting on March 3, 2011 in Lawrence, Kansas to gather input on future development of the US-40 Highway/K-10 interchange in west Lawrence
