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Paseo Bridge Bike/Ped Access: MoDOT is building a new quarter billion dollar bridge in the heart of Kansas City. It could provide the first safe bicycle/pedestrian crossing of the Missouri River near downtown Kansas City. We've been working on this for years and now it's going to move or die forever in the next month or so.

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Hwy 45 Bike/Ped Access: MoDOT is building a new highway through Parkville, Missouri. Guess what--their plans for accommodating bicycling and walking are inadequate, plus they forgot to include any funding for them.

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Bicycling License Plate: Many other states have 'Share the Road with Bicycles' license plates. Why not Missouri, too? In 1 minute you can show your support.

There have been quite a lot of recent letters to the editor in the KCStar about the Katy Trail connection. However, they have almost all been arguing about, did the Katy railroad really come to KC or not? Here are some recent letters give you the flavor: 1, 2.

These letters give those of us who support the Katy Trail Connection a perfect opportunity to respond with another letter.

Of course you can write whatever you like, but it would be natural to write a response be along the lines of, "we don't care what you CALL it, but we WANT it." And maybe briefly discuss just one benefit (tourism, health, fun, community obesity, high gas prices, whatever).

Send letters to letters@kcstar.com and include full name, city, and phone number.

Letters from outside the Kansas City area would be welcome--especially if they say how the Katy Trail Connection in KC might impact YOUR community (say, Clinton, Sedalia, Columbia, St. Louis, or another community that would now be connected to Kansas City via the Katy Trail).

We need to put pressure not only on our government officials but also the officials of the large corporations who own sections of the proposed Katy Trail Connection corridor (Union Pacific and AmerenUE).

Letters to the editor are a great way to do that.

Related:

News: BikeMO October 15th: Lodging and camping

News: Removing Katy Bridge at Boonville will endanger entire Katy Trail

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posted by Brent Hugh at 3/23/2005 03:09:00 PM |comment on this article