Kansas City Bicycle Log |
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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, October 06, 2002
Three Bicycle/Ped Injuries/Fatality in Independence Last Week
Did you all see this in the Star? Complete KC Star article "Three young people in Independence were struck by vehicles last week while bicycling or walking on city streets. One of them, a 14-year-old boy, was killed near 23rd Street and Arlington Avenue, while riding his bike." The 14-year-old's accident was about 8PM, which makes one think that lack of lighting on the bicycle as well as the typical fast automobile speeds on 23rd Street are likely contributing factors. Does anyone know more about these incidents? |