Main Street is a great opportunity to create new bike connections to Downtown, Westport, Country Club Plaza, and UMKC/Rockhurst. This corridor has the city's greatest concentration of people, jobs, cultural attractions, and destinations.
BikeWalkKC Proposal: Center-running streetcar and one-way cycletracks
What it could look like:
Broadway Alternative
Main Street is an example of a corridor where it might work better to use a nearby adjacent street for the bike route. Here is what a bike route on Broadway could look like. Planning and engineering for parallel bike routes can easily be included in the engineering for the overall streetcar project to ensure a well-integrated system.
Bike Connections along Main Street Phase 2 Corridor
- Midtown Marketplace
- Thriftway Grocery Store
- Westport
- St. Luke's Hospital
- Kansas City Art Institute
- Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
- Country Club Plaza
- Plaza Library Branch
- South Plaza Shops
- UMKC
- Brookside shops
- Waldo shops
Potential Bike Share Stations
- Linwood Avenue
- 43rd Street
- Mill Creek Park
- South Plaza
- UMKC (multiple)
- Brookside
- Waldo
Extended destinations made accessible by bike:
- Penn Valley Community College
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
- Rockhurst University
- Kauffman Foundation
- West 39th Street
- KC Startup Village
- Antique Row
- Waldo Library
- Cleaver YMCA