Bike/ped news headlines from around Missouri

Some of the latest news headlines from around Missouri:

• Editorial by Ann Mack, Trailnet Executive Director: Design our roads for people (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• Bike sales up 13% in 2011 - have been rising the past five years (Fox2)
• Health benefits of biking and walking (Columbia Tribune)
• Earn-a-Bike program in Kansas City (Fox4)
• GORC builds single-track trails in the St. Louis region (Suburban Journals)
• Lose the Training Wheels bicycle camp for children with developmental disabilities set for June 2011 
• MoDOT to add shoulders to Hwy 34 in Bollinger County (SEMissourian)
• MoDOT to add sidewalk across Hwy 54/5 interchange in Osage Beach (Lake News) - one of the Top 100 bike/ped projects suggested in MoBikeFed's High Priority List
• KCStar editorial supports major bike lane project on SW Boulevard (KCStar)
• Don't bicycle on the sidewalk (Kirksville Daily Express)

And around the world:

• More walkers and bicyclists means safer walking and bicycling (Health Promotion Journal of Australia)
• New Zealand's mandatory bicycle helmet law dramatically reduced the amount of bicycling--and also increased the rate of injuries (New Zealand Medical Journal)