2013 National Bike Challenge Toolkit

Please help to spread the word about the 2013 National Bike Challenge with these handy images and printable materials. Let’s get Kansas riding!

Join the 2013 National Bike Challenge

The 2013 National Bike Challenge runs from May through September, and is a great opportunity to get healthier, have fun, become part of a national online community, and win some awesome prizes!

KU Proposes Center Bike Lanes for Jayhawk Blvd.

(Photo:  Lawrence World Journal)

KU has announced an $11 million dollar reconstruction of Jayhawk Blvd to improve pedestrian and bicycle accessibility and safety, roadway infrastructure, utilities, bus circulation and to restore the historic tree-lined character of the original Jayhawk Blvd.

KS Congressional Delegation Fails to Support Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety

While at the National Bicycle Summit in early March 2013, KanBikeWalk representatives had, among other things, one simple request for each of Kansas’ six Congressional delegates. The ask was to sign a bi-partisan letter of support for the establishment of safety performance measures for bicycle and pedestrians affected by the use of federal transportation funds [...]

Kansas-based Team Garmin’s Hesjedal Wins Giro de Italia

Kansas City Star posted this article on Team Garmin’s Ryder Hesjedal’s win of  the 2012 Giro de Italia last Sunday, the 2nd largest pro bicycling race in the world, and other recent team successes. But don’t look for the article in the Sports section (link below) because it’s in the Business section. Guess the sports [...]

Bicycling in Johnson County, KS – A mixed review

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

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

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 [...]

KARE: Contact Your US Senator NOW to Protect Bicycling

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

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 [...]