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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

26 days

I never would have thought of KC as a progressive transit and bicycling city, but compared to cities like St. Louis, we are downright progressive. Fare Free Transit, a working streetcar, actual protected bicycle lanes /1

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

18 days

No reason to spend $38m for another train between KC and St Louis, or study a new route between St Joe & Springfield, when you can spend $3B to expand I-70!

Missouri Senate weighs in on budget, adds highway funding and raises for low-income workers

Interstate 57 could be extended to Missouri’s southern border with Arkansas.

www.stltoday.com

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

2 months

So you are telling me if I vote no, the chiefs will get a new stadium just a few miles away and someone else will be paying for it???? I can't wait to vote no

Bob Fescoe

@bobfescoe

2 months

Chiefs will be in Kansas if this doesn’t pass just so you know it’s not just about the royals. Chiefs will be in a new stadium before Mahomes retires if this fails

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

20 days

I really want to love this, but we have been told repeatedly that we wouldn't lose any of the park. Now it looks like the vast majority will be developed vs this plan or leaving very little park left.

Port KC will sell KC Current riverfront properties for $800M mixed-use neighborhood development

Port KC commissioners on Monday agreed to sell most remaining undeveloped properties at Berkley Riverfront to the Kansas City Current, while signaling intent to provide incentives for the professio...

www.bizjournals.com

Thomas Friestad

@KCBJ_Thomas

20 days

Here are new renderings of the $800M+ mixed-use district planned by the Kansas City Current on most of the Berkley Riverfront's remaining undeveloped land. Marquee Development, of Chicago, will serve as co-developer for the phased project. Detailed story to follow.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

17 days

The DT neighborhood I live in has massive parking lots where buildings once stood. It has a highway cutting thru it that destroyed housing & businesses. My neighborhood has been torn down over time to make it easier for people to get in & out of downtown, it hasn't helped.

Paul Jones

@PaulJones95

18 days

@BrianDavidPlatt @QuintonLucasKC @KOneillkcmo @EricWBunch @RideKCTransit @dnakcmo @DowntownKC_CID You need to focus on more, better & safer parking, better public transportation options, and better roads/traffic management so that people can actually get into & out of downtown easily.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

17 days

I keep seeing "But where will we park" coming up in context of multiple new housing/mixed use developments announced in KC. Rather than asking where we will park, Let's ask why do we have a system that requires us to buy expensive cars just to participate in society!

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

Ppl: ya'll wasted money on bike lanes that won't be kept clean KCMO: meet Taylor Sweept Ppl: you wasted money on this... Me. Can't wait to see it in action!

Kansas City

@KansasCity

1 month

Meet the newest addition of our street sweeping team. Should we call her Taylor Sweept?

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

@varneybe @jenawithonen @foxyjewishmama Would you have argued against air bags, and seat belts back in the day?

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

20 days

I had a recent bike vs walker conversation the other day and reminded me that everyone else is left to fight for the scraps left over from car centric design. It shouldn't be that way!

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

18 days

“Zero fare has just made riding the bus a lot more of a no brainer,” said Onianwa, who frequently rides the bus. “It makes it really simple getting around, at least. Especially if you know the bus routes and where they're going.”

Can Kansas City afford its free buses? Council set to negotiate KCATA contract

The new, draft contract between the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority and the city contains vague language that suggests the transit agency would limit zero fare to riders who meet certain...

www.kcur.org

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

22 days

@NKYNewsNetwork We should remove those car lanes for lack of use!!! 🤔

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

26 days

I will not stop pushing for better, but wow, it just takes going across the state to our sister city to see just how far we have come. Big shout out to @bikewalkkc , @EricWBunch , @BrianDavidPlatt @QuintonLucasKC & all the other advocates who push hard to make our city better!

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

20 days

@ob_cycler because it makes them feel smart and vindicated in their beliefs even when it is clearly an untrue statement.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

17 days

All that orange is a parking lot or garage. Nearly every one of these was a building at one time that was torn down. The downtown was connected to the River Market, Paseo West, the Crossroads & the West Side before being ringed with highways that torn out complete neighborhoods.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

@MannyAbarcaIV Take a break, log off Twitter for a bit, do some reflecting. You have a lot of work to do to rebuild trust with your community after your part in this whole debacle. You helped rush a poorly conceived, & executed plan. This doesn't happen without your repeated yes votes!

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

28 days

"The driver of the Ford was not injured" Well fucking congratulations to them for being all snug and safe in their glorified living room on wheels after hitting a person!

KSHB 41 News

@KSHB41

28 days

Pregnant woman struck, seriously injured while crossing street in KCMO:

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

17 days

My neighbor just cooked fried rice and brought dishes to everyone on the floor. We took basil plants to the neighbors for Easter. Ppl say apartments & cities are lonely, but ppl make community, not location! Go make the community you seek!

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

26 days

City ordinances that require bicycle parking with all new construction. A city that provides free bike racks to businesses who request them. A city with a 311 app that lets you report bike lane issues. A city who has new bike lane cleaning machines etc. /2

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

20 days

@colbyjacksoden 100% agree. I think history will bear out that Frank did his best to negotiate the best deal for the country/people against overwhelming political pressure to cave in and give Billionaires everything they wanted.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

21 days

"Who likes loud cars? Ontario study suggests they skew young, male and score high on psychopathy and sadism"

Science or stereotype? Psychology study suggests young men who love loud cars may be psychopaths |...

The gunshot pop of tailpipes, the roar of engines and the sound of tires screaming rubber against pavement evoke a range of emotions. A Western University prof in London, Ont., wondered "who wants to...

www.cbc.ca

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

@ElleryKlein the fact that we just allow these multi-ton machines to be used on our city streets with minimal instruction, training all without physical speed limiters is just astoundingly stupid.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

I am enjoying watching all the people out watching the eclipse. It's so nice to see all the people take a break, step outside and take part in a shared experience.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

If you see me riding my bicycle the in middle of the lane, I'm not being a dick trying to piss you off or slow you down, it's often for one of these reasons. I don't want to hold you up, or be a nascence. I just need space for safety and visibility.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

@LD65264018 @TheSotaSwede The biker is not behind the car, they are in their own lane, and the driver is wanting to cross that lane. The driver has to yield. Parallel traffic has the right of way, not the turning car, even if the turning car is there first and has a turn indicator on.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

16 days

Of course he still is. This only gets worse when you find out he was on the Crime Free Multi-Housing unit, who's main goal seems to be displacement. @TheAtlantic did an expose on him and CFMH a few years back

When the Police Call Your Landlord

Crime-free-housing programs are quietly giving police widespread influence over landlords and their tenants.

www.theatlantic.com

Katie Moore

@katie_reports

16 days

NEW: A Kansas City police officer has been indicted on 14 federal counts of wire fraud & two counts of money laundering. Aaron McKie is accused of taking over $300,000 in donations to a nonprofit for his own personal use. He remains employed by KCPD.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

Kansas City voters approve $175 million in bonds for affordable housing and convention center

Kansas City will invest general obligation bond funds over the next five years to upgrade parks and recreation centers and convention facilities and to create more affordable housing units.

www.kcur.org

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

18 days

We could cover the cost of Fare Free transit with automated parking ticket cameras :)

Luke Ranker🚶‍♂️

@lukeranker

18 days

AI-powered cameras installed on Metro buses to ticket illegally parked cars

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

25 days

“Vehicle crashes are among the leading causes of death in the U.S. But it doesn’t have to be this way. We can design or redesign streets to make people drive more slowly or to discourage driving altogether”

We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent

Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment and public safety

www.scientificamerican.com

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

. @RMCAKC Garden Club did a cleanup around the @SikeStyle mural this morning. If you know the man, the legend that is J-Whiz, the man featured in this mural, you know he's a mainstay of urban bicycling in KC & often found dancing at 1st Fridays on 18th Street. Such a cool mural!

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

Just watched a driver in a massive BMW SUV run a stop sign on 9th St only to turn the wrong on a one way Street, Baltimore, just to pull into their garage at Sky On Main. Congrats, by being an inconsiderate and completely shitty driver, you saved 30 seconds!

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

28 days

About to meet up with some St Louis bicycle riders to ride and chat about advocacy, bikes, life and just enjoy the day! #BikeLife

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

16 days

@JazHays @rogersforKC Always good to remember that KCMO has a Climate Action Plan, and that it is absolutely meaningless when we continue to vote time and time again against it.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

Kansas City votes 'yes' on public bus funding by renewing sales tax for another decade

The three-eighths cent sales tax is one of the largest sources of local funding for the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority.

www.kcur.org

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

24 days

@CBQ_Fanatic Every time I read comment sections like this, I lose a bit more faith in humanity.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

18 days

@AustinStrassle Plus literally everyone said Oracle would screw over KC as soon as a they bought Cerner. Seems the Mayor and Council were they only ones who believed otherwise.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

2 months

@markalfordkc Sounds like an issue you should take up with your Speaker!

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

Counter argument. The cost of cars(car dependency) is one of the main reasons Americans have no savings, no retirement and housing costs so much. It's the biggest killer of people under 30, & contributes heavily to our poor health outcomes. Drive less, live more!

Collin Rutherford

@collin_ruth89

1 month

Unpopular Opinion: People should spend more money on cars. You spend a large percentage of life in your car. It makes sense to invest in a car you enjoy.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

@barelmann Not surprising considering what a PR disaster the whole vote yes campaign was.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

15 days

@bellachu10 Seems pretty straightforward and a worthwhile endeavor for both financial but also environmental reasons.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

27 days

Dear @CityofStLouis . The bicycle lanes downtown are confusing to drivers who don't know where to park. Please install some flex post and curb stops between the parking lane and the bike lane, otherwise drivers will continue to think that the bike lane is the parking lane.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

@jrg770 @SVaushite @LD65264018 @TheSotaSwede Can you tell me what that sign actually says please?

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

17 days

Absolutely we need better Public Transportation, the entire region needs better Public Transportation. Regional Rail to get the suburban & ex-urban people into the city. Better busses and more street cars to get them around the city once here, but more parking isn't the solution

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

15 days

@GoingDutchDEN Very proud of you! Wish we had more parents and citizens who cared enough to be part of of solution rather than reactionary knee jerk trolls who add nothing of value to society. Keep it up!

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

One reason I advocate for bike/walk/bus is that my vision issues like this are relatively workable at human speeds. If on the bus, no big deal, If walking/riding, I can easily & safely stop. If driving a car, it's very dangerous & harder to pull over, find a parking spot etc

@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

It's a cute joke, but this can be my reoccurring view due to my detached retina and ocular degeneration, only the black spot is much larger

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

25 days

Glad no one was on this sidewalk or in the crosswalk when the driver of the car was doing doughnuts in the intersection!

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

26 days

Oh the Irony The Atlantic has a story titled "Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls" and guess what it's behind?

Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls

The case for making journalism free—at least during the 2024 election

www.theatlantic.com

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

19 days

I find her videos to be quite good. Do any of my KC followers watch her regularly? Did you know she used to live and work in KC?

This East German City Solved Urban Decline

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

27 days

While Busch Stadium has more official bicycle parking than Kauffman stadium, it's pretty sad that this is the only official bicycle parking that a downtown stadium in a nearly flat city has. Finding any bicycle parking downtown was difficult.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

@varneybe @foxyjewishmama @jenawithonen Should we prevent drinking and driving? Nah, let's let someone drink and drive, if they get caught, then we can take action. That is one hell of a take.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

20 days

Perhaps extensive river side work will be done to reclaim lane and expand that area into usable park. Renderings kind of look like that, but that is going to be very very expensive. Will it make it into the final product?

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

18 days

According to one source close to the shelter negotiations who The Star is not naming due to fear of retribution, “Not only was the proposal sound, very sound, (Hope Faith) has 10 years established experience working with this population.” Read more at:

KC may scrap plan for ‘low barrier’ shelter. Why such little progress on homeless goals?

The plan for Kansas City’s first low barrier shelter had been accepted by the city council in January, before progress stalled.

www.kansascity.com

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

Bikes and friends are the best way to spend lovely day. Had a great time at the Big Bike Picnic hosted by Velo Garage and Taphouse today!

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

23 days

FYI Next week, Councilmember @Robinson4kc Approving an update to the Trails KC Plan as a guide for future shared-use trail development & corridor preservation within the City of Kansas City

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@STBikesKC

1 month

@charlesincities May check out the men and women of @urbanlab_kc

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

26 days

@BikeWalkKC @EricWBunch @BrianDavidPlatt @QuintonLucasKC This not meant to stir crap, meant more as a lesson to not take my own city for granted or get down about it when I don't feel it's moving in the direction I want fast enough.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

20 days

@BarsottiKlb a promenade isn't' a replacement for a park. A new town square is cool. but will be be fully public 24/7 or access controlled for residents only. I spend so much time in this park, I'm just sad to see be lost.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

20 days

@jspence1234 I don't have kids, but this bullshit about kids not belonging in public is fucking nuts. Might as well tell parents they can't have a life for 18 years and their kids shouldn't learn to socialize in public. Why even fucking have kids then?

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

20 days

@BarsottiKlb yep, very disappointed that they are developing on park land when we have all those surface parking lots along Wyandotte from 6-9th that could be converted to housing first. I fear what little park will be left will be too small to accommodate actual needs.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

@Kylesfunhavings North Loop is ripe for a cut-n-cover subway line between KCK and the Historic NE. A number of tweets lately about other KC sized cities in Europe with two or more metro/subway lines.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

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@btoellner Oh man loved them when they were in the small spot in Troost & 41st

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

@mattstephenskc Probably Harlem, but not sure you would want to live there

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

@colbyjacksoden Because KC loves affordable housing for cars, people not so much?

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

@LD65264018 @TheSotaSwede Also in case you didn't notices this sign posted at that intersection. It clearly reads, Turning Vehicles, yield to bicycles and walkers

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

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@LD65264018 @TheSotaSwede If the biker was a car in a car lane and you wanted to turn right from the left lane, would you think you still had the right of way because your blinker was on? In reality, the biker sees & knows the driver is going to turn, likely without looking, so they should slow down.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

@ElleryKlein I need this on a T-Shirt!

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

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@sheraehoneycutt @QuintonLucasKC @BrianDavidPlatt @MShawKC Probably not a great look to include a truck illegally parked on a sidewalk in a city post considering the mayor @MayorLucasKC has been telling so much about pedestrian safety lately. Just FYI

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

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@Kylesfunhavings @CBQ_Fanatic This is just one step in a long term plan to bring people down there. 1st Fridays has brought lots more visitors to the area. Combine with the new SomeraRoad projects, the new apartments next door, Hy-Vee arena, the new levee trails & trail connections

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

@Kylesfunhavings I think this is what you are looking for

Kansas City got $50 million for its Housing Trust Fund. How did it spend the money this year?

A dozen projects have received $11 million in Housing Trust fund support, all of them dedicated to creating and preserving affordable housing.

www.kcur.org

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

20 days

@Ringneck85 Perhaps you didn't read the thread fully, I said I wasn't happy existing park land was being developed on, but would love to see this development on surface parking lots just up the street literally in my back yard.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

1 month

@OhUrbanity @NoMoreBikeLanes @pbilk Kansas City Kansas has the lowest ridership of all the cities in the greater Kansas City metro area. Check out the Strava heat map. KCK has virtually no bike lanes, no protected bike lanes and it shows. @bikewalkkc can provide more numbers.

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

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@Justin__Short @swrightKC I've seen people call rehabilitated malls as the perfect retirement home for Gen X. Housing, shops, food court and entertainment just down the hall. sounds great!

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@stbikeskc.bsky.social🚶🚴 🚌 & 🚎

@STBikesKC

20 days

@kcdowntownloop @BarsottiKlb they are tearing out so many mature trees 😥 Looks like all the trees myself and others use for hammocks are being torn out. So much for @kansascity trying to "save" trees.

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