Blue Springs to implement bicycle route system
Submitted by Brent Hugh on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 6:48pm
Blue Springs, Missouri, is set to implement an ambitious bicycle route system in 2009.
Blue Springs has been working on their trails and bicycle route plan since the early 1990s. In 2000 the city received a $580,000 Transportation Enhancements grant. For several years the city has been setting aside about $100,000 of their own money each year, giving them just over $1 million to implement the plan.
The plan will include 19.3 miles of on-street bicycle routes and three additional miles of trails to add to their (approximately) 9 miles of existing trail.
The result will be a nice system of routes throughout the city.
Read more details about the Blue Springs plan in the Kansas City Star article.
See the existing system in MARC's regional bikeway system map for the Kansas City region (PDF).
Blue Springs joins a number of Missouri cities planning to expand their bicycle routes systems in 2009--including St. Louis, Columbia, and Kansas City.
According to preliminary numbers tabulated by the Missouri Bicycle Federation, the number of miles of on-road bicycle routes and bicycle lanes in Missouri has been growing quite dramatically from 2007-2009:
Blue Springs has been working on their trails and bicycle route plan since the early 1990s. In 2000 the city received a $580,000 Transportation Enhancements grant. For several years the city has been setting aside about $100,000 of their own money each year, giving them just over $1 million to implement the plan.
The plan will include 19.3 miles of on-street bicycle routes and three additional miles of trails to add to their (approximately) 9 miles of existing trail.
The result will be a nice system of routes throughout the city.
Read more details about the Blue Springs plan in the Kansas City Star article.
See the existing system in MARC's regional bikeway system map for the Kansas City region (PDF).
Blue Springs joins a number of Missouri cities planning to expand their bicycle routes systems in 2009--including St. Louis, Columbia, and Kansas City.
According to preliminary numbers tabulated by the Missouri Bicycle Federation, the number of miles of on-road bicycle routes and bicycle lanes in Missouri has been growing quite dramatically from 2007-2009:
2007 | 2008 | 2009 (planned) | |
Miles of marked bicycle lane (counting each direction separately) | 54 | 81 | 121 |
Miles of marked On-road Bicycle Routes (excluding bicycle lanes) | 160 | 232 | 286 |
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