 The Missouri Interscholastic Cycling League is holding informational sessions across Missouri for the next few weeks (Springfield, Joplin, St Joseph, Cape Girardeau, KC area, St Louis area), coach training this spring, forming teams and clubs starting Spring 2020, and holding its first season Fall 2020.
Upcoming League Informational Sessions are Jan 23rd in Cape Girardeau, Jan 25th in Des Peres, and Feb 7th in O'Fallon.
What is the League? Who is it for? Why might individuals, communities, and schools want to get involved? How can you get started?
All those questions and more are answered below.
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 The PedNet Coalition of Columbia shared this success story with us, about work they are doing with the Walking School Bus program in Kansas: Kansas’s statewide Walking School Bus (WSB) programs, funded through the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT), proved successful for students and schools. KDOT contracted with PedNet, a nonprofit organization, to create 15 WSB programs throughout the state. However, in the end, 17 schools implemented a WSB. In total, those 17 schools had 54 routes, 298 volunteers and 715 children. This makes it one of the largest and most successful Safe Routes to School projects in the United States. A significant accomplishment of this project is sustainability from the participating schools. The grant funded project has ended. However, to date, 11 of the 17 schools have either committed funding, or located funding, to continue the WSB. This many schools agreeing to fund the program is noteworthy on its own, but it is especially meaningful considering Kansas education is experiencing unprecedented budget cuts. This shows their confidence in the benefits and successes of the WSB for their students and schools.
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One of the most common questions we get at the Missouri Bicycle and Pedestrian Federation is, "What can I do to make my city safer and more inviting for biking and walking?"  Complete Streets Here is the list of our top recommendations--ideas that have been tried, tested, and found to be effective in cities and counties across Missouri, the U.S., and the world. Remember that there are many good ideas, but you don't have to implement all of them right now. Pick one--the easiest for you to achieve right now--and then build on that success to implement another good idea, and so on.
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One of the most common questions we get at the Missouri Bicycle and Pedestrian Federation is, "What can I do to make my city safer and more inviting for biking and walking?" Complete Streets Here is the list of our top recommendations--ideas that have been tried, tested, and found to be effective in cities and counties across Missouri, the U.S., and the world. Remember that there are many good ideas, but you don't have to implement all of them right now. Pick one--the easiest for you to achieve right now--and then build on that success to implement another good idea, and so on.
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International Walk to School Day is October 8th, 2014 and the entire month of October is International Walk to School Month.
Need some help getting started with planning your local Walk to School Day? It's easy and fun. The main steps to planning your local WTSD are:
- Set a date and time--any time during October (International Walk to School Month) is fine.
- Designate a place to for students, parents, teachers, and school staff to meet, and a route to walk to the school.
- Create a simple flyer the school can distribute to the students and an announcement the principal can read during school announcements.
- Show up, walk to school, and have fun!
Many more details--everything you need to know--in these great resources:
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 Recently the League of American Bicyclists released its annual Bicycle Friendly States ranking. Missouri is currently ranked at 34th of the 50 states--meaning that we are doing a lot of things right--far more than we were doing 10 or 20 years ago!--but that we also have a lot of work to do to catch up with other states across the nation. The Bike League's state rankings released earlier this month included and overview of Missouri's ranking by category and a few specific suggestions. But today the League released a far more detailed report with recommendations for Missouri. These recommendations by the most respected bicycle advocacy group in the nation carry a lot of weight. The harmonize almost exactly with MoBikeFed's recommendations as the statewide bicycle advocacy group in Missouri--recommendations that have been developed over the course of years by our statewide Legislative Committee and Advisory Commission.
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 Twenty-five of MoDOT's regional transportation planning partners across Missouri are starting to prioritize project lists for the proposed 1 cent sales tax for transportation.
Are bicycle and pedestrian projects included in these lists? Are bike/ped projects receiving the priority they need and their fair share of funding?
Because MoDOT has been prohibited by the Missouri constitution from spending state highway fund dollars on bicycling, walking, and transit, planning for these modes has been harder for the regional transportation planning agencies--they have been forced to make due with a combination of local and federal transportation funds.
Simply the fact that bicycle, pedestrian, and transit projects are allowed projects under the proposed new funding rules should make a huge difference.
But does it?
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 Trailnet's CEO Ann Mack has led the organization through an amazing transition from a group that was very effective in promoting and creating regional trails, including the Riverfront Trail, Grant's Trail, to a powerful, broad-based community organization that works for healthy, active living and improving the quality of life of everyone in the St. Louis region.
Trailnet recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, and pursues a broad-based program including numerous bicycle rides and events, Safe Routes to School, a key program to help cities, counties, and other agencies with transportation and trail planning, and the support of policy initiatives in support of bicycling, walking, trails, and healthy lifestyles--such as the recent passage of the Complete Streets Policy in St. Louis County.
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 As MoDOT works to build support for a proposed $8 billion statewide transportation funding initiative--that will, for the first time, allow state transportation funding to be spent on bicycling, walking, and transit projects--MoBikeFed has worked with organizations across Missouri to evaluate the proposal and its ramifications.
MoDOT's plan is that the vast majority of the $8 billion dollars will be prioritized and allocated by MoDOT's "Planning Partners" these are Regional Planning Commissions (RPCs) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) across Missouri.
The proposed new funding includes, for the first time, state transportation funding for bicycling, walking transit, ports, airports, and other transportation needs, alongside the traditional Missouri state transportation priorities--roads and bridges.
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