Kansas City Bicycle Log

Posts, email, and ideas related to bicycling and bicycle advocacy.



I post these mostly for my own convenience in being able to keep them archived and searchable, but if you get some use of them, more power to you!

Among other interesting items here is a fairly complete record of my involvement with the grassroots effort in support of the BikeKC initiative in the Summer of 2002.

You can find everything from press releases to letters to the city council to exhortations to other bicyclists to write letters to the editor. See what worked well and what caused us problems in the effort to pass BikeKC.

From my point of view, this was almost a picture-perfect grass-roots movement. The result was that BikeKC was passed on August 15th, 2002.

Now we have to work to make sure the plan becomes reality!

Most of that is in the 8/25/2002-8/31/2002 archive.

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Sunday, August 25, 2002
 

Hi all,

Poking around on the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) web site, I see that they are working on "Transportation Outlook 2030, the region's Long-Range Transportation Plan, will be a blueprint for the development of our transportation system through the year 2030. MARC is currently conducting efforts to update the plan, which must be completed and approved by the Federal Highway Administration by the summer of 2002."

Does anyone know what's up with this plan, as far as bicycle & pedestrian issues go?

Web site is http://www.marc.org/transportation2030.htm



As part of the plan, they did a survey of area residents and found these interesting results:

Survey participants agreed with these statements:

* Transportation projects should support new styles of development that encourage transit, walking and biking, and that don�t require use of a car (81.6%)

* The region should support conversion of abandoned railroad rights-of-way to pedestrian and bike trails (79.9%)

* Bicycle and pedestrian facilities should be included on new or widened roadways where possible (77.9%)

The disagreed with this statement:

* The region�s current transit services meet most citizens� basic mobility needs (68.9%)

More details at http://www.marc.org/transportation/lrtp/survey_results.htm
posted by Brent Hugh at Sunday, August 25, 2002 | permanently archived here

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