Kansas City Council approves miles of bike lanes on Paseo, other areas | The Kansas City Star

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Kansas City is getting ready to add more miles of bike lanes along the Paseo and south and east of downtown, thanks to grant funds and city matching money.

The City Council has approved a $1 million project to design and construct about 19 miles of on-street bike lanes along the Paseo, northbound and southbound from Independence Avenue to 85th Street. Nearly $728,000 of that is from federal funds, and the rest is local matching money, through public improvement sales tax dollars in the 3rd and 5th council districts.

The city hopes to complete the design in 2017 and finish construction by September 2018.

“I think it’s fantastic,” said 3rd District Councilman Jermaine Reed, chairman of the council’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “It’s something everyone in our community, regardless of where you live, should embrace.”

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Kansas City Council approves miles of bike lanes on Paseo, other areas | The Kansas City Star

MoBikeFed comment: Kansas City has made steady progress in implementing is citywide bicycle plan and is now close to adopting an updated BikeKC plan updating the citywide bicycle plan, integrating the city's on-road and trails plans, and updating standards for accommodating bicycling on city streets across the city.

Among other innovations, the new citywide Bike KC plan will implement bicycle level of service measures and specific bicycle infrastructure recommendations on every city street--and will be used whenever streets are maintained or updated.

More information about KCMO's bicycle planning and projects here:

http://kcmo.gov/publicworks/bikekc/