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December 2017

Cape Girardeau area bicycle & pedestrian plan open for public comment: Your comments needed; Our reaction and suggestions

Fri, 12/15/2017 - 8:30am

A few years ago, serious regional bicycle and pedestrian planning was the domain of a few of our largest cities--Columbia, St. Louis, Springfield, St Joseph, and (most recently) Kansas City.

But no more--right now we have serious bicycle and pedestrian planning or implementation initiatives going on in far southwest Missouri (Harry S. Truman Coordinating Council), in Joplin, in Jefferson City, in Rolla, in the Kaysinger Basin Regional Planning Commission (Warsaw area), and several other areas around the state.

To that list, add the Cape Girardeau region, as the Southeast Metropolitan Planning Organization (SEMPO) has been working for some time on an extensive, detailed, and comprehensive regional bicycle and pedestrian plan.

Public feedback on the draft Cape Girardeau area Bike/Ped Plan requested by January 14th

Now SEMPO has released the draft plan, is asking for public feedback on the plan, and is planning a public open house on the plan January 9th, 2018.

If you live, work, bicycle, or walk in the Cape Girardeau/Jackson area of Missouri, please take a few minutes to give feedback on the plan.

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Your feedback needed! New mountain bike routes in Missouri's Ozark National Scenic Riverways could be hub of massive 280 mile mountain bike network

Wed, 12/13/2017 - 8:30am

A new trails plan for Missouri's Ozark National Scenic Riverways has the potential to create a massive 280 mile mountain biking system.  But your feedback is needed to help build support for these important new trail links.

Ozark National Scenic Riverways - Missouri's only national park area with the potential to allow extensive mountain biking and hiking trails - has extended the public comment period on its roads and trails plan until January 15th, 2018. 

The new roads and trails plan proposes, for the first time in ONSR history, to allow mountain biking on some of the trails in ONSR.

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How much do people in Missouri bicycle? Is the amount of bicycling growing? How does MO compare with the U.S. and the world?

Wed, 12/06/2017 - 8:30am

How much do people in Missouri bicycle?  Is the amount of bicycling in Missouri growing?  How to Missouri communities compare with other U.S. cities and with major cities of the world?

This is a graph we often use in presentations to give a quick birds-eye view of that data, and how Missouri compares to the U.S. and the world over time.

 

Some of the high points:

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