We are excited for the news that New Belgium’s Tour de Fat event is expanding this year to include Kansas City! Click here to read New Belgium’s Press Release. Grab your tickets and start planning for the Kansas City Tour de Fat on August 12, 2017! Expect to experience the unexpected. We’re bringing the party […]
Category Archives: BikeWalkKC News
RFP for strategic planning for Missouri’s regional active transportation organizations
BikeWalkKC and our peer organizations in St. Louis, Springfield, and Columbia request proposals for strategic planning services to inform future collaboration between the four organizations and to further our shared goals to improve the health and livability of our communities. RFP Issued: January 20th, 2017 Questions Due: February 3rd, 2017 Proposals Due: February 10th, 2017 Download […]
2016 Year in Review
2016 marked BikeWalkKC’s sixth year! Thanks to our members, volunteers, and partners we saw another great year growing the organization, and impacting the quality of life across the Kansas City region. BikeWalkKC’s milestones in 2016 A growing organization Our team of professional advocates, educators, and planners continues to grow. We have 10 full-time folks and another […]
Help us choose locations for bike share in North Kansas City
Our Kansas City B-cycle bike share program is expanding in 2017, including to North Kansas City! We’re seeking public input on where you ride, and where you’d like to see the first three stations north of the river. Learn more and share your ideas here.
Midland Trail Elementary’s Walking School Bus; New Sidewalks
Midland Trail Elementary School in the Turner School District kicked off their first, formal Walking School Bus program on September 30th with overwhelming success! On a beautiful fall morning, 55 students, several teachers and a handful of parents joined together to walk to school. The Walking School Bus kick-off also celebrated the installation of brand […]
KCMO Councilman Jermaine Reed rides with our East High School Bike Club
Councilman Jermaine Reed (3rd District) recently joined the students in our East High School Bike Club on a fun bike ride to the 18th & Vine Jazz District. The kids had a great time meeting a city leader and talking with him about how to make take it safer for the students walk and bike […]
October 2016 Newsletter
Halloween Ride + Taps: Oct. 29 Benefitting BikeWalkKC Join us at Bier Station on Saturday, Oct. 29 for the final Bier Station/Family Bicycles/New Belgium Brewing bike ride of the year. We’ll start with a family-friendly, short bike ride (costumes encouraged!) at 10:15 a.m. and stay to enjoy some delicious food and drink. Proceeds from select New […]
September Newsletter
3rd Annual KC Women’s Bike Summit on Saturday After a great HamBINGO warm-up event last week, where many of you helped us raise almost $2,000 for the #womenbikekc initiative, we are excited for Saturday’s KC Women’s Bike Summit. This year we move to a new venue and add new group ride options. Pre-register online today, and […]
BikeWalkKC Collaborates with Rodgers Health to Teach Kids Bike Safety
This summer we partnered with Rodgers Health to bring our Youth Education programs to kids at two KC Housing Authority communities in the Old Northeast area. 25 kids participated in Earn-a-Bike and BLAST (Bike Lesson And Safety Training). We are excited about the opportunities this new partnership provides BikeWalkKC to begin measuring the health outcomes […]
Karen Campbell joins the team as our Development and Communications Director
BikeWalkKC welcomes Karen Campbell as our new Development and Communications Director. Karen will lead our fund development, membership, and communications/marketing efforts to support BikeWalkKC’s mission to redefine our streets as places for people to build a culture of active living. “I am excited to join the BikeWalkKC team! I look forward to working with the staff, board, funders, […]