Advocacy Advance is offering a number of training opportunities in our region this year to help learn about bike/ped opportunities in the new national transportation bill. The next event is April 4th in Wichita.
Upcoming T-WORKS Local Consultation Meetings
September 20, 2012 by
The Kansas Department of Transportation has scheduled a series of eight T-WORKS meetings across the state in late September and early October. Please consider attending and speaking up for safe walking and bicycling in Kansas.
Bicycling in Johnson County, KS – A mixed review
May 30, 2012 by
The ever intrepid bike commuter Noah Dunker, makes the cover of Kansas City Star’s ’913′ while on one of his daily commutes to/from work. Mike Hendrick’s, KC Star journalist and bicyclist, wrote an 8-page article (link below) with lots of photos on most things bicycling in Johnson County. It covered the good and the bad [...]
Bicycling under Attack Again in US Senate
October 26, 2011 by
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
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
The DeSoto, KS, City Council will re-visit lifting the 83rd Street bicycle ban Thursday, Sept. 15th, 7:00 PM, DeSoto City Hall. Last time this was on the agenda it was defeated by just one vote. The fact that it has come up on the agenda once again after just a few months indicates there is [...]
KARE: Contact Your US Senator NOW to Protect Bicycling
September 13, 2011 by
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
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
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
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 [...]
