Advocacy in Action: Protecting the Bike Lanes in Overland Park!
Your advocacy is making a difference for safer places to bike, but we need to keep up the momentum. Thanks to your advocacy, the City of Overland Park recently launched a pilot to install “No Parking” signs to keep people from parking in bike lanes along Indian Creek Parkway. Here’s what you can do to […]
Advocacy Alert: Speak Up for a Safer Broadway Boulevard!
Update August 26, 2025 Sept. 10: LAST CHANCE to pave a safer future for Broadway Boulevard! Were you at the Broadway Boulevard meeting in July? So many people attended that the city officials ran out of paper surveys! And now, thanks to your participation, city leaders have finalized a design for the corridor. We need […]
Share Your Thoughts on the Metcalf Transit Study!
The survey will help to shape the approach city and county leaders take to improve transit along this key corridor. As the issue of public transit becomes more pressing in Johnson County, more work is beginning to happen to help chart a course for what the future could look like. That includes the Metcalf corridor […]
ADVOCACY ALERT: Learn more about the Wyandotte County Budget!
Attend the meeting on Thursday, June 5 at at 7:00 PM at the UG Municipal Building (701 N. 7th Street) to learn more and provide input on the proposed budget. The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and KCK (UG) is working to set the priorities for the annual budget preparation for all city and county […]
Advocacy Alert: Share Feedback on Connected KC 2050!
Take the survey and share feedback on this key regional plan before May 30! The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) works at the regional level to guide the development and implementation of strategies related to major issues such as housing, economic development, and transportation. One of the main documents they use to guide their transportation efforts […]
YOU DID IT: Vision Zero and Bike Share funding saved for now
UPDATED May 5, 2025 Folks, we have some great updates to share with you regarding Ordinance 250382. We’ve learned that the finance committee will NOT move forward with the ordinance at tomorrow’s meeting. Doing so means it is essentially dead (for now). We know many of you were planning on attending the finance committee tomorrow. […]
Transportation Reauthorization has Begun: Here are BikeWalkKC’s Priorities
As we highlighted in our 2025 Policy Platform, the major issue we’re following in Washington DC is the transportation reauthorization process. In short, this is a process Congress embarks on every five years to create the primary legislation that will guide the nation’s transportation policies, programs, and funding. You can learn more about the process […]
How a hand-me-down bike brought me more joy than I can keep to myself
By Brandon Schubach, BikeWalkKC Youth Education Instructor A decade with BikeWalkKC This year marks my ten-year anniversary at BikeWalkKC, a milestone that has me reflecting on the journey that brought me here and the impact our work has on the community. Over the past decade, I’ve had the privilege of teaching kids how to ride […]
What’s In the KCMO Budget for Walking, Biking, and Transit?
The KCMO City Council approved the budget for fiscal year 2025 to 2026 late last month, capping off a process that has been more fraught and uncertain than in years past. As BikeWalkKC explained, the city budget has a critical impact on multimodal priorities for the city, funding everything from staff and equipment to key […]
2025 Policy Platform “Troll”-out
Content warning: the following video contains disturbing language and material that is inappropriate for some people. Viewer discretion is advised. During BikeWalkKC’s policy platform rollout on February 26, 2025, an unknown individual took over the virtual meeting and engaged in disparaging and disruptive acts. The disruptions occur between the 3:30- and 5:30-minute marks. This included […]