KDOT & MoDOT resist community calls for bicycle/pedestrian access on new bridges

Three weeks ago we reported that the Kansas City area River Crossing Task Force was going well.

Now we must report the opposite, and we need your help to turn the situation around.

In two minutes you can voice your opinion here.

The draft proposal, which MoBikeFed, KCBikeFed, Kansas City Bicycle Club, and Johnson County Bicycle club representatives fully support, calls for routine accommodation of bicyclists and pedestrians on new bridges.

KDOT and MoDOT want to stick with our current system which basically says, if we want to and if we have the money and if you beg, grovel and plead specially every single time, then we might provide bicycle & pedestrian access if we can work it out.

Frankly, in the 21st Century that just isn't good enough.

Kansas City has no, none, zero, not one adequate, safe river crossing for bicyclists & pedestrians.

Not one KDOT bridge in the KC area provides for safe bicycle/pedestrian access.

St. Louis has no less than five and they are planning to make more.

Kansas City is losing ground here. Our policies are quaint and backword. This is not the way a city that dreams of being in the major leagues provides for its citizens.

There is only one way to turn this situation around, and that is for hundreds of us to stand up and demand that they provide for our needs and our safety.

You can do it in less than 2 minutes here. PLEASE do it, today, right now.

This decision will be made within the next 10 days and after that your chance to speak up will be gone.