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The Mid-America Regional Council, which is the regional planning organization for 8 counties in the Kansas City region, has announced a major update to its regional Complete Streets Policy:
Complete Streets are advanced in this policy so that transportation investments may result in a rising quality of mobility for everyone.... (read more)
Kevin Mills of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy gives the lowdown on a major new program to fund bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. Please share the word to your local city, county, metropolitan planning organization or regional planning commission, or any other agency that is looking to fund their bicycle and pedestrian needs.Federal... (read more)
MoBikeFed's 2024 events
Capitol Day & Ride with Legislators, Apr 29, 2024
Elmwood Bike Rodeo, Kansas City, May 4, 2024
Queen City Century, Springfield, June 15, 2024
Missouri Active Transportation Summit, Friday, August 23, 2024
BikeMO, Saturday, August 24, 2024
Missouri Bicycle Festival in Urich, Fri-Sun, Sept 14-17, 2024
Tour de... (read more)
MoDOT has developed an Unfunded Needs Project List for every region in Missouri. Many citizens across the state were involved in creating this list over the past years. MoDOT's High Priority Unfunded Needs List includes hundreds of needed bicycle, pedestrian, and public transit projects
MoDOT is now taking public comments on the... (read more)
Monday, July 28th, the Siddens Bening Hands-free Driving Law goes into effect in Missouri. How long it's been! We started using this graphic to illustrate our stories on the issue of texting while driving - a very long time ago . . .
Missouri legislators have considered distracted driving and cell phone laws for nearly two decades. In that... (read more)
The 2023 Missouri Active Transportation Summit is coming up Friday, August 11th - attend in person in Jefferson City or online via YouTube or Teams.
Our Summit Keynote this year is about a real Missouri success story - a small rural community that has been building its bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure literally 1000 feet at a time over the... (read more)
The session and presenter lineup for the 2023 Missouri Active Transportation Summit - August 11th in Jefferson City - has just been announced. And it's a doozy - a truly amazing group of presenters, representing deep knowledge and experience with advocating for, designing, planning, funding, and using Missouri bicycle and, pedestrian, and trail... (read more)
At 10am this morning in Windsor, Missouri - where the Katy and Rock Island Trails meeting - Missouri State Parks announced the Today's ceremony announcing the Rock Island Trail State Park as the state's 93rd state park was held at the intersection of the Katy and Rock Island Trails near Windsorstate's 93rd State Park, with a new name: Rock Island... (read more)
TIGER Grants were first awarded in 2009. That very year, the City of Warsaw, Missouri, applied for a major grant, designed to expand the city's renowned trail system, but even more - to connect the entire city to the trails and to major destinations like parks and shopping, via bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly Complete Streets. Warsaw's... (read more)
MoBikeFed's 2023 events
Missouri Active Transportation Summit, Friday, August 11, 2023
BikeMO, Saturday, August 26, 2023
Missouri Bicycle Festival in Urich, Fri-Sun, Sept 15-18, 2023
Tour de Wildwood, Sunday, Oct 8th, 2023
Join MoBikeFed for our 2023 events! Help move forward our 2023 legislative agenda, learn about how to make... (read more)
If you have followed Rock Island Trail news in Missouri, you know that the new Rock Island Trail State Park has run into very significant headwinds in the Missouri legislature in 2022 and 2023. Governor Parson and Missouri State Parks officials sign the agreement to accept the Rock Island corridor into the Missouri State Parks system,... (read more)
Thursday, May 11th, the Missouri House & Senate finally passed SB 398, including the "Siddens Bening Hands Free Law" which prohibits texting and other electronic device use while driving. Missouri is one of two states that does not regulate texting and electronic device use while driving. When this bill is signed into law, that will... (read more)
This year the Missouri Bicycle & Pedestrian Federation is organizing the Elmwood Bike Rodeo May 6th in Kansas City. We will give away 150 bicycles to area kids who need them, fit the bikes, and have bike safety information and an area for kids to ride their new bikes safely - and a LOT more. The event will be held at Elmwood Cemetery,... (read more)
Please contact your Missouri Senator and Representative this week and ask them to support the Rock Island Trail funding in HB 6. A $2.9 million in federal grant has been approved for the Rock Island Trail. However, the grant must be appropriated by the Missouri legislature. The governor requested the appropriation, the Missouri... (read more)
Since the proposals to increase Missouri's fuel tax and federal transportation funding have been under discussion, MoDOT has been working with its local districts and representatives from the states Regional Planning Commissions and Metropolitan Planning Organizations - representing every county and city across the state - to determine the... (read more)
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