Position Description: Bike Share Operations Coordinator Deadline: Open until filled. Posted on September 2nd, 2021. Status: Full-time, hourly, non-exempt. Reports to: Director of Bike Share and Business Services Location: 1106 East 30th Street, Suite G, Kansas City, MO 64109 (with daily travel throughout the city) RideKC Bike, a program of BikeWalkKC, seeks a full time […]
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KCMO takes important step towards decriminalizing walking and biking
The City Council voted unanimously on May 6, 2021 to repeal statutes related to dirty wheels, bike inspections, and jaywalking. Since the summer of 2020, BikeWalkKC has advocated for the decriminalization of walking and biking. In a letter to Mayor Quinton Lucas, we identified three portions of the municipal code which effectively criminalized the activities […]
Press Release: National Discussion to Highlight Trend Toward Decriminalization of Jaywalking
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 28, 2021 CONTACTS: Angie Schmitt: 614-499-3239 angie@3mphplanning.com Caro Jauregui 562-320-2139 Caro@calwalks.org National Discussion to Highlight Trend Toward Decriminalization of Jaywalking More and more cities and states are rethinking rules that criminalize walking. From Virginia to California to Kansas City, decriminalizing jaywalking is no longer a radical idea but an increasingly viable […]
Notes from Mile 1: BikeWalkKC’s First Full Year
Mile 10 Campaign – BikeWalkKC Celebrates its 10th Anniversary! This year, we celebrate our 10th anniversary! BikeWalkKC was officially launched in April 2011 as a nonprofit organization with a mission and purpose to serve the bi-state Kansas City-metro area. We were Kansas City’s first professional advocacy and education organization dedicated to bicycling and walking. As […]
What do you do when your city is named the worst bicycling city in America? You create solutions for the problem.
Mile 10 Campaign – BikeWalkKC Celebrates its 10th Anniversary! This year, we celebrate our 10th anniversary! BikeWalkKC was officially launched in April 2011 as a nonprofit organization with a mission and purpose to serve the bi-state Kansas City metro area. We were Kansas City’s first professional advocacy and education organization dedicated to bicycling and walking. […]
Decriminalization and Data in KCMO
Advocates, journalists, activists, and researchers across the country report that arbitrary laws governing how people who walk and bike create the potential for over-policing of pedestrians and bicyclists, especially People of Color. (Find links to stories from other cities in our previous blog post) BikeWalkKC continues to advocate for the decriminalization of walking and biking […]
Press Release: The first ever Kansas City Physical Activity Plan released
The Kansas City Physical Activity Plan Work Group Weighing In Children’s Mercy Center for Children’s Healthy Lifestyles Contact: Robin Shook, PhD Chair, The Kansas City Physical Activity Plan Work Group Assistant Professor Department of Pediatrics Children’s Mercy Center for Children’s Healthy Lifestyles rpshook@cmh.edu 214-448-83366 kcphysicalactivityplan.org The Kansas City Physical Activity Plan Work Group has released […]
January 2021 newsletter: Starting the New Year on the right foot
Where we’re headed in the new year, and how you can help us get there Kick off a year of active living with a FREE class from BikeWalkKC and Johnson County Library! January 21 Virtual Maintain Your Ride: DIY bike maintenance made easy February 18 Virtual City Bicycling: Learn the rules of the road and […]
BikeWalkKC welcomes Amy Scrivner as Director of Development and Communications
Amy Scrivner was studying women writers of the Victorian era when she had an epiphany that she wanted to work in service to her community. So she channeled her education and passion into her first non-profit job with the YWCA in Cincinnati, fundraising for domestic violence survivor assistance. Twenty years later, we are pleased to […]
Advocacy Alert: Speak up for Complete Streets in Wyandotte County
Together with our partners in the Healthy Communities Wyandotte Policy Committee, BikeWalkKC is advocating for the adoption of a Complete Streets ordinance as a means of improving the built environment and health outcomes in Wyandotte County. In the age of COVID-19, such legislation has taken on increased significance as a means of supporting frontline workers […]