2021 MO Active Transportation Summit preview: Kansas City MO Public Works plans new cycle track for Westside - KSHB

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Kansas City Public Works recently installed a new bicycle track on Gillham Road in Midtown, and are now pursuing a similar project on the Westside.

As the weather warms up, Kansas City is hoping to turn down the temperature on the roads.

"We’ve had a pretty alarming rise in traffic fatalities in KCMO, 20% rise over the last 10 years. So Vision Zero and sort of our path forward right now is just saying we're not going to accept that anymore," said Maggie Green of KCMO Public Works.

Through speed management strategies, education and physical infrastructure, the city is chartering a path forward, and it’s not just for motorists.

"Over the last several years we have seen an increase in people using other modes of transportation, not to mention some folks don't even have a car, and they get around primarily by taking the bus or by walking, and so our responsibility as a city as a public works department is to make sure that we have safe infrastructure for everybody to move around the city," Green said.

A new Westside bicycle track is next on the Public Works’ agenda.

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2021 MO Active Transportation Summit preview: Kansas City MO Public Works plans new cycle track for Westside - KSHB

MoBikeFed comment: August 13th, 2021, at the Missouri Active Transportation Summit, representatives from Kansas City Public Works will be talking about their work on the Gillham Road Cycle Track mentioned in the article above.

Maggie Green will be there along with KCMO Public Works Director Jason Waldron.

The cycle track was groundbreaking for Missouri--the first in Kansas City and one of the first in Missouri.

The Summit is all virtual for 2021--you can attend from anywhere in Missouri or the world.

Join us! http://MoBikeFed.org/Summit