News roundup: Kirksville's secret sidewalks, I-64 bridge bike/ped path, why use bike lights?

• Kirksville's secret sidewalk program 
  

  Bicycle headlights/photo courtesy Richard Masoner, Cyclicious - FlickR
  
   
• Nov 13th - public meeting about new Boone Bridge/I-64, to include MO River trail connection
   
• 13 reasons you should bike to work
   
• Bike League announces latest Bicycle Friendly Universities. None from Missouri yet--which university will be first?
   
• Want to keep up with Missouri bicycling on Facebook?  Check out our Facebook List of Missouri Bicycling Facebook Pages - including local, state, and national advocacy organizations and many other Missouri bicycle-related pages.  Suggestions for the list?  Email director@mobikefed.org.
   
• It's getting darker sooner--are you using your bike lights after dark and at dawn and dusk? 75% of U.S. cyclists don't--despite the fact that use of headlights and taillights rather dramatically cuts the injury rate after dark. Even daylight running lights have a surprisingly large effect--reducing reducing bicyclist injuries by a full 1/3 (read in original Danish).

Bicycle headlights photo courtesy Richard Masoner, Cyclicious - FlickR. License: CC BY-SA 2.0.