28 JAN 2009: Should MoDOT's future funding include bike/ped?

I support including bicycling and walking in all future MoDOT funding.

I support including Complete Streets requirements in any future MoDOT funding. Roads need to be safe for those who walk, bicycle, and use transit, the elderly and children, the able and the disabled.

I commute by bicycle and I support including Complete Streets requirements in any future MoDOT funding. Roads need to be safe for those who walk, bicycle, and use transit, the elderly and children, the able and the disabled.

I support including Complete Streets requirements in any future MoDOT funding. Roads need to be safe for those who walk, bicycle, and use transit, the elderly and children, the able and the disabled.

Please continue to support bicycling and walkingin our transportation funding

Please support the bicycling and walking transportation funding.

We need better accomodations for walking and biking in MO - gas is only going to go UP.

Ladies & Gentlemen:
Like thousands of other Missourians, I support funding for walking and bicycling.

Stanley S. Pearson

Lets not ignore bicycling in Missouri. I support Complete Streets.

I support including Complete Streets requirements in any future MoDOT funding. Roads need to be safe for those who walk, bicycle, and use transit, the elderly and children, the able and the disabled.

I support funding for facilities for bicycling and walking, measures to improve safety for bicyclists and pedestrians, and complete streets and highways.

Bicycling is safe, healthy, efficient, carbon free. Why wouldn't we encourage it?

I support including bicycling and walking in all future MoDOT funding.

I support including Complete Streets requirements in any future MoDOT funding. I commute to work and roads need to be safe for those who walk, bicycle, and use transit, the elderly and children, the able and the disabled.

I support including bicycling and walking in all future MoDOT funding.I cycle and walk for pleasure and transportation.And like many other people, I need safe trails and roadway's to travel on.

I support bike lanes on streets, roads, and highways. As a road cyclist, I would like safe, designated areas to cycle.

I support including bicycling, walking, and running in all MODOT future plans. I really like the bike lanes that are in many new roadways. Please keep these activities safe for all who pursue them.

Biking is the only form of transportation I can afford. Sometimes I work at night and my travels often involve immense levels of fear. Please ensure that Missourians like myself are able to bike and walk places safely.

Biking needs to be a bigger part of transportation. We need bike lanes and such in S.W. MO.

I support Complete streets and other initiatives to provide bike lanes and pedestrian walkways.
Biking is a key activity for me, but many roads are just too unsafe to ride. We need bike lanes to make them safer.

I support including bicycling and walking in all future MoDOT funding.I cycle and walk for pleasure and transportation. And like many other people, I need safe roads to travel on.

We support Complete Streets and urge MoDOT to include bikes as a significant part of all transportation planning

I ride my bike in St. Charles County and would like to have bike lanes on streets and highways in my area. As a road cyclist, I have been hit twice by cars and would like safe, designated areas to cycle. Or the next time I might end up with more than just bruises!

I believe that we need more trails and excuese to get outdoors and enjoy help people be safer when they are enjoying the outdoors.

I support Complete Streets in MODOT funding so I can use my bicycle vehicle to bike to work without paying a Muslim for his oil!

I support Complete Streets in MODOT funding.

Bike/ped mode share seems to be treated like Missouri's dirty little secret. And yet we have a premier international cycling tour.

MoDOT and Kit Bond seem tragically locked in the Eisenhower era. Please note, the age of exurban expansion is over, and the days of four lane connectors plowing through former corn fields is gone with it.

Yet here is MoDOT asking to make the mistakes of the 50s through the 90's at a whole new level of funding.

I see few solutions to MoDOT's dilemma that do not involve shifting responsibility for the staggering number of letter hiways back to the counties they primarily serve.

Those MoDOT HIghways that remain could be multi modal adapted using funds from the overall savings gained that way.

Missouri will be crushed by the next oil price surge that will easily exceed the previous one.

The degree to which we are damaged will depend on how quickly we get an inter and intra urban electric commuter rail system online.

I am not kidding-- the light we see at the end of this economic tunnel is probably the UPac AutoParts train. Oil Prices are already rising and demand is still shrinking, or at best flat... that should tell you something.

We are already hurting in Missouri to keep up our high volume roads at expected levels of service. User fees are not just for commuters... *Everybody* has to pay.

What if trucking helped build the state rail system? What if UPac and KCSouthern helped?

Since the days of the Edsel, we have acted like the automobile based roadway was the only free lunch in town.

Now they hand us the check.

We need to look carefully at transportation in Missouri, not just as a Highway Department, which is how frankly MoDOT defines itself, primarily.

One thing is for certain, even if MoDOT needs more revenue, it needs fewer roads to call its own, and it really needs to have its back door access to the legislature locked up.

Missouri Department of Transportation. By definition, transportation means the movement of people and goods from one location to another. The mode by which people and goods move are many. However my interest is that of the human powered transport kind, bicycles in particular. Human powered transport uses Missouri streets, highways and bridges, in many cases, for commuting, shopping, and recreation. Unfortunately, in Missouri, these avenues for human powered transport are, in my opinion, ill designed and poorly executed which ultimately renders them inefficient and more importantly unsafe. Hopefully, eventually, someone will affect a positive change in attitude at MODOT that takes into consideration human powered transport with each project.

The issue of funding comes into play whenever change is proposed, however this change doesn’t cost, it pays. Missouri gets repaid in positive economic impact, through tourism. Cyclists worldwide consistently seek, visit, and enjoy bike friendly areas. It gets repaid with a positive environmental impact. Those of us who find it difficult and dangerous to commute to work on a daily basis will put down the keys to the car and ride our bikes, resulting in less harmful emissions. Positive sociological impact means more physically fit Missouri residents and less of a burden on our healthcare system. The positives far outweigh the negatives when looking at the future of our state.