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Bridging the gaps
Last week, our friends the Alliance for Biking & Walking’s PeoplePoweredBlog reported on an achievement in Missouri: After years of work by the Missouri Bicycle and Pedestrian Federation, the Missouri DOT put a separated bike lane on the Heart of America Bridge. The Alliance quotes the Federation’s Brent Hugh on the importance of this success: “Advocates have been working for this day for more than two decades,” Hugh says. “The Missouri River cuts the Kansas City metro area in half, and a safe crossing point for bicyclists and pedestrians has been the biggest missing piece of the area’s bike-ped network.” Congratulations.
Photo by the Mid-America Regional Council
We know that gaining safe access to bridges is a perennial issue for bicyclists. That’s why it is the topic of the next Advocacy Advance report. If you have a story of a successful — or challenging — campaign to get bikes on bridges that you would like to share, please email me at darren [at] bikeleague [dot] org. I’d love to learn for you.
Darren Flusche
League Policy Director
Flusche joined the League in April 2009 and has a B.A. in history from Syracuse University and a Masters of Public Administration with a concentration in public policy analysis from New York University.
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October 15th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Is that a bidirectional path? If so, those two cyclists seem kinda indifferent to roadway position.
October 15th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Khal said: “those two cyclists seem kinda indifferent to roadway position.”
I suppose they’re changing lanes to pass the photographer.
October 15th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Could be…
October 16th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Mike, that’s my interpretation as well.
October 17th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Looking at the blowup of the pic, it looks like they are both changing lanes to go around the photographer. Esp. look at the second rider. Mike is right.