Last week, Platte County and the Cities of Riverside and Parkville celebrated a new connector along the Missouri River levee that allows people to walk or bike “from Costco to English Landing Park,” as one trail user described it. The gap between the Riverside and Parkville sections of the Missouri Riverfront Trail was only 700 […]
Category Archives: Planning
Progress in 2020 – Seven Built Bike Projects to Be Excited About
It’s easy to get discouraged when delays, roadblocks, budget cuts, global pandemics, and other surprises frustrate the best laid plans to improve walking and biking infrastructure. As the year draws to a close, BikeWalkKC wants to celebrate some of the bike projects that persevered in 2020 to support safe and active streets for all users. […]
Prospect Corridor Asset Mapping
In March 2018, BikeWalkKC received a grant from TransitCenter to help neighborhoods along the Prospect Corridor develop multimodal connection opportunities that coincide with the forthcoming Prospect MAX rapid transit bus route. Acknowledging that limited resources are available to fully integrate neighborhoods with this public transit enhancement, attention was turned to identifying the key assets residents […]
AETNA Cultivating Healthy Communities
BikeWalkKC worked in partnership with Northeast Kansas City communities to deliver evidence-based youth education programming and hands-on built environment interventions to improve community health. Programming efforts for this project included activities to improve awareness, skills, confidence, and motivation in participants to increase the number of residents walk and biking. BikeWalkKC also engaged residents to build […]
Burlington Complete Street Design
BikeWalkKC is assisting North Kansas City and project engineers with the design and construction of a two-way cycle track on Burlington Street. Today Burlington functions as a highway corridor, but North Kansas City plans to transform Burlington into a thriving, sustainable, complete street and a more inviting front door for the community. A centerpiece of […]
Spring Hill Sidewalk Strategy
The Spring Hill Sidewalk Strategy presents a plan for a more complete sidewalk network in Spring Hill. This strategy begins with an analysis of the existing sidewalk network, including widths, conditions, and coverage of existing sidewalks. Future land use plans, codes and policies, and technical specifications for public improvements are analyzed to understand their impacts […]
Woodland Plaza Equitable Mobility Strategy
The Woodland Plaza Equitable Mobility Study is a set of strategies that helps the people who visit or live in the diverse area centered on Independence Avenue and Woodland Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri move from place to place more easily. This area of Kansas City has a unique window of opportunity to coordinate and […]
North Kansas City Bicycle Master Plan
North Kansas City’s award winning Bicycle Master Plan outlines a comprehensive network of bicycle facilities that connects and serves all parts of the community, and details strategies to implement this network over time in coordination with other City priorities, infrastructure improvements, and economic development. Research and case studies across the country demonstrate that more people […]
Community Dashboard
Data is a powerful tool for engaging the community and advocating for change. BikeWalkKC’s Community Dashboard helps us measure the pace of change in making our streets places for people.
Complete Streets in Rural Missouri
Since the summer of 2019, BikeWalkKC has been working with our partners at Missourians for Responsible Transportation (MRT) to provide technical assistance to a number of rural communities working to improve elements of active transportation on their streets and trail systems. A key focus of that assistance has been with policy. At the request of […]