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  • The Emerging Omaha Bicycling Community

    The Emerging Omaha Bicycling Community

    This year the Omaha Bicycling Community seems to have taken the first steps into the light of day, with recent events such as the Omaha Bike Summit and the opening of the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge, and now some new voices making themselves heard: Bike Omaha is a new blog covering …

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  • New Fort Leavenworth Mountain Bike Trail

    New Fort Leavenworth Mountain Bike Trail

    Area Boy Scouts and volunteers recently helped clear a new mountain bike trail at Fort Leavenworth. The trail, which runs roughly along Sheridan Drive from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks Cemetery to the Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery and Nez Perce Village, is intended primarily for mountain bikes, but may also be used …

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  • Iowa Bus Bike Racks Report

    Iowa Bus Bike Racks Report

    Recently we discussed the appalling absence of bike racks on Wichita buses. Wichita, the largest city in Kansas has no bike racks on its buses, while communities such as Lawrence, Topeka, and Johnson County do. This week, Mark Wyatt of the Iowa Bicycle Coalition offers up a report on Bus Bike …

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  • Springfield Bike Lanes

    Springfield Bike Lanes

    Andrew Cline has written an excellent Survey of Springfield Missouri Bicycle Lanes on his Carbon Trace blog. It appears that Springfield has a fairly extensive network of bicycle routes, though only a few miles of actual bike lanes. Andrew set out to “ride and survey nearly every inch of the painted …

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  • New Midtown Wichita Bike Path Approved

    New Midtown Wichita Bike Path Approved

    From the City of Wichita: Bicycle riders will have a new pathway next spring that connects the Midtown area and the north edge of the downtown core area. The Midtown bike path will run more than one mile, from the intersection of Central and Wichita Streets, north along Wichita Street to 9th …

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  • Kids Advocate For Traffic Safety

    Kids Advocate For Traffic Safety

    The Kansas Department of Transportation recently announced the winners of their “Put the Brakes on Fatalities” poster contest, in which kids ages 5 through 13 were invited to create artwork on the theme of traffic safety. Three winners — one in each age category: 5-7, 8-10, and 11-13 — were selected …

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  • Bicyclist Killed on I-70 in KCK

    Bicyclist Killed on I-70 in KCK

    A man on a bicycle was killed as he tried to cross Interstate 70 in Kansas City, Kansas just before noon today. The 67-year-old man was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. His name is being withheld pending notification of family, though he is reported to be …

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  • New KC Area Bikeways and Trails Map Available

    New KC Area Bikeways and Trails Map Available

    The Mid-America Regional Council has just published a new edition of the Bikeways and Trails Map for the greater Kansas City region. MARC’s MetroGreen is a proposed 1,144-mile interconnected system of public and private open spaces, greenways and trails designed to link seven counties in the Kansas City metropolitan area, including …

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  • Trails KC Plan Goes to City Council

    Trails KC Plan Goes to City Council

    The Trails KC plan is finally going before the Kansas City, Missouri City Council. The trails plan, which calls for 230 miles of off-street shared use trails, 26 miles of on-street facilities and 41 miles of equestrian trails, was unanimously approved by the City Plan Commission in September, and will now …

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  • Salina Considers City Trails

    Salina Considers City Trails

    City Commissioners in Salina, Kansas are considering authorizing a seven-mile multi-use hike/bike trail, to be called the the Smoky Hill River Trail, that would follow the Smoky Hill River channel through Salina. The path, could cost as little as $4 million or as much as $7.9 million, depending on what type …

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