The Mid-America Regional Council recently sent MoDOT a list of local bike/ped projects for the proposed 0.75% statewide transportation sales that will be on the August 5th ballot. Amendment 7 would provide almost $78 million a year in new transportation funds to the Kansas City region. Local officials are proposing that 10% be set aside for bike/ped, and 30% set aside for transit.
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Project |
Description |
Cost |
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On-street bikeways |
General placeholder for on-street facilities like bike lanes |
$38.5 million |
|
Rock Island acquisition |
Purchase of the Rock Island rail line from Pleasant Hill to the Truman Sports Complex |
$27.10 million* |
|
Rock Island Trail |
Construction of the trail |
$8.7 million |
|
Vivion Road |
New bikeway Old Pike Road to US 169 Hwy |
$2 million |
|
Route 9 Trail |
New trail from I-635 to Parkville |
$1.3 million |
|
Total bike/ped funding over ten years: |
$77.6 million |
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*The transit project includes another $25 million for the Rock Island acquisition.
A more detailed list of projects included in the On-Street Bikeways item is a mixed bag for the region. It includes several great trail and bike lane projects, and but is focused almost exclusively in the suburbs. The only urban project on the list is the addition of bike lanes on 35th Street through the East Side. The urban core would only receive about $1 million of the total $77.6 million allocated for bike/ped.
There are also several big items completely missing from the project list:
- Sidewalks and ADA improvements
- Education programs
- Safety campaigns and motorist awareness
- Safe Routes to school educational programs and infrastructure improvements
- Bike share expansion and operations
- Pedestrian access fund for small projects to address localized gaps and barriers
- ADA improvements to existing facilities
- High quality bikeway between Downtown and the Country Club Plaza, linking Downton and Midtown to the Trolley Track Trail, Brush Creek Trail, and eventualy the Katy Trail.
Full list of Kansas City metro projects submitted to MoDOT by the Mid-America Regional Council
