Riverside Trail opens in KC Metro area; KCMO trails plan urged

A section of trail along the Missouri River northwest of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, opened this weekend.

This is part of a planned trail system along the Missouri River that will eventually stretch throughout the Kansas City metro area

According to the KCStar article:

Platte County and Riverside on Friday opened a $1 million, 3.75-mile hiking and biking trail on the Missouri River’s north bank. About two-thirds of the trail is atop the Riverside-Quindaro Bend Levee ­ the first trail atop a privately owned levee in the Kansas City area.

Eventually the trail will be linked with the riverfront trail in Parkville’s English Landing Park and Kansas City’s planned system in the Line Creek valley.
This week the KCStar also published an editorial urging the city of Kansas City, MO, to adopt & implement a trails plan:


Kansas City’s trails system is an embarrassment to its residents.

The city has a small number of pathways for bicycles and walkers. They amount to just 30 miles in a geographically large city of 450,000. By comparison, Johnson County has 200 miles for a population of 525,000.

Most of Kansas City’s trails aren’t connected to each other.

And despite high public interest in trails, City Hall over the last decade has not built or even planned a more extensive system.

Now a task force of citizens and city officials has taken important steps toward improving the situation.

The draft of a new report — titled “Trails KC! Plan, a comprehensive trails system for Kansas City, Missouri” — clearly acknowledges the city’s shortcomings.
MoBikeFed has been involved in the planning process for the KCMO trails plan, and it will be a good plan--if adopted and implemented.

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