Missouri bike/ped news roundup: Training, trails, sidewalks, paint, compromise, funding, and harassment
Roundup of recent bicycle, pedestrian, and trail news from around Missouri:
Southwest:
PedNet's Law Enforcement Training
- Springfield police participate in training, "Rights and Duties: a law enforcement officer's guide to bicycling issues" offered to police departments across Missouri by PedNet.
- Nixa rejects Enhancements grant for new sidewalk, pedestrian pathway
- 2011 Bike Week in Springfield was most successful ever, with more than 1200 participants
- Green Boulevard touted as part of Joplin rebuilding
Southeast:
- Jim DeBlois, Cape Girardeau bicyclist and longtime MoBikeFed member, killed while bicycling Ride the Rockies tour (more info)
KC - Put Paint to Pavement
Kansas City area:
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Make expansion of Kansas City area's bike trails and lanes a top priority, urges KCStar - followed up by a second editorial a few days later
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Community bike shop in Kansas City's urban core to be opened by Revolve
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Lack of sidewalks and poor sidewalks challenged by Kansas City resident
- KC area trail runners tout their sport
St. Louis Bicycle Station
St. Louis area:
- Journey of Hope and Team Jesse bicyclists arrive in St. Louis on cross-country tours
- Fleeing driver charged in St. Louis pedestrian death
- St. Louis's new Downtown Bicycle Station doing well; Trailnet's new headquarters in the same building
- Trailnet boosting bicycling in St. Louis Central West End
- Part of 20-mile Centennial Trail through Washington University in St. Louis to open soon
- Death of Missouri bicyclist leads Trailnet to call for education campaign; prosecutor mulls charges against driver
Central:
- Osage Beach residents don't want sidewalk on their road
- Section of Katy Trail near Rocheport reopens after month of flooding
- 70% of residents use Columbia's trail system
- Compromise reached on Columbia, MO, trail connection through Audobon Society land
- Addition of bike lanes to Route K near Columbia a win for motorists as well
- Fulton plans trail between YMCA and high school
Northeast:
- Kirksville area residents urged to show support for Forest Lake Area Trail System (FLATS)
Forest Lake Area Trail System - Storm damage closes Hannibal walking trail, cancels midnight bike ride
General:
- MoDOT Safe Routes to School grants announced in Albany, Birch Tree, Bloomfield, Cape Girardeau, Carrollton, Doniphan, Eminence, Hannibal, Holts Summit, Kahoka, Northwoods, Potosi, Russellville, St. James, Marion and Pettis County R-V.
- New law in Los Angeles bans bicyclist harassment - going beyond laws in Missouri and other states by allowing bicyclists to bring civil suits (more info, text of ordinance)
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