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The City of Springfield has begun construction on reconstruction and repair of the historic Jefferson Avenue Footbridge.  The bridge has been closed since 2016.  

The bridge is a historic structure that crosses a railroad yard with 13 tracks, connecting residential and downtown business districts, and allows pedestrians to avoid an approximately 1.5-mile detour.

More about the project from the City of Springfield:

The City of Springfield, alongside project partners Historic Commercial Street, BNSF Railway, Branco Enterprises and Great River Engineering, is embarking on the long-awaited construction phase of the rehabilitation of the historic structure.  

Cyclist Palmer Bowles videoed his Katy and Rock Island Trail trip from Kansas City to St Louis.  Watch the whole trip here:

Seth Alvo of Berm Peak gives a thorough review of the Burly Buffalo Bicycle - a $160 bicycle specially designed to be an everyday workhorse of a bicycle in parts of the world that have little infrastructure or existing resources for maintaining bicycles:

Help raise funds to defray the matching cost for the Rock Island Trailhead and 1.7 miles of trail in and around Cole Camp!

Italian Dinner Fundraiser

Sunday, April 21, 2024

Seatings at Noon and 5:30 p.m.

The German Table

107 E. Main Street in Cole Camp, MO

$30/ person

Menu options: Chick Parmesan or Salmon with Dill Sauce; includes appetizer, dessert, beverage, and choice of wine or special cocktail.

For tickets, contact: Marge Lumpe (660-221-1226), Sam Cole (660-221-3278), or Susan Kyle (660-668-4416)

This is a Walk Bike Cole Camp and Cole Camp Community Betterment event.

MoBikeFed note: Cole Camp is one of a whole series of communities up and down Rock Island Trail State Park that are working to develop their portions of the trail.  2024 will see groundbreaking and ribbon cuttons on several sections of the new 144-mile section between Windsor and Beaufort. Rock Island Trail current status & updates here, or visit the Friends of Rock Island Trail State Park and the official Rock Island Trail State Park web site.

Gravel Adventure Field Guide is a great company more folks in Missouri should know about! They are a travel media company based in Colorado that helps communities develop a network of great gravel routes.

But then they take it a step further - developing the materials your community and area businesses and agencies need to promote and market your amazing new routes, including the cool Gravel Adventure Field Guides they produce.

They'd love to work with some Missouri communities or regions - and we definitely have some great gravel-filled regions that could use some promoting!

Here are some short videos about projects they have been involved in around the country:

On October 11, 2023, the Missouri Transportation Task Force will be hosting its 2nd annual Virtual Summit.

Join national and state transportation experts to learn about best practices and frameworks to achieve accessible and affordable transportation.

Session topics include State and Federal Funding, Mobility Management, Current Transit Needs, Aging and Transportation.