Advocacy Alerts

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Advocacy:

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.

Advocacy:

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.

Advocacy:

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.

Missouri Bicyclists,

Here is a little warmup to our upcoming introduced a resolution to officially declare May as Bike Month this year. It should come up to a vote this week.

He was able to round up no less than 34 (!) co-sponsors for the resolution. (Our MoBikeFed lobbyist Jim Farrell might have had a little to do with that . . . ).

Could you take just a couple of minutes and email a few of our cosponsors and thank them for co-sponsoring the resolution? Especially your own representative (if by chance that person was a co-sponsor) or those who live close to you?

Sample email message (PLEASE personalize it at least a little):

Representative XXXX,
Thank you for co-sponsoring HCR 54 declaring May as Bike Month and Bicycle Safety Month. Making Missouri safer and friendlier for bicycling is very important to me, and I appreciate your support on this issue.

Representatives of the Missouri Bicycle Federation will be in Jefferson City May 14th for an Advocacy Day. I hope you will work with them to make Missouri a better, safer place to bicycle.

Contact information for sponsor/co-sponsors:

• Mike Sutherland - sponsor of bill & chief bicycling proponent in the MO legislature
  Mike.Sutherland@house.mo.gov
  
• Ryan Silvey - Kansas City
  ryan.silvey@house.mo.gov
  
• Charles Schlottach - Owensville
  Charlie.Schlottach@house.mo.gov
  
• Steve Hunter - Joplin
  Steve.Hunter@house.mo.gov
  
• Carl Bearden - St. Charles
  Carl.Bearden@house.mo.gov
  
• Bob Nance - Excelsior Springs
  bob.nance@house.mo.gov
  
• Bill Deeken - Jefferson City
  Bill.Deeken@house.mo.gov
  
• Robin Wright Jones - St. Louis0
  Robin.Jones@house.mo.gov
  
• Scott Lipke - Jackson
  Scott.Lipke@house.mo.gov
• Dwight Scharnhorst - Manchester
  Dwight.Scharnhorst@house.mo.gov
  
• Kathlyn Fares - Webster Groves
  Kathlyn.Fares@house.mo.gov
  
• Kevin Threlkeld - Washington
  Kevin.Threlkeld@house.mo.gov
  
• Craig Bland - Kansas City
  Craig.Bland@house.mo.gov
  
• Jason Smith - Salem
  Jason.Smith@house.mo.gov
  
• Ron Richard - Joplin
  Ronald.Richard@house.mo.gov
  
• Tim Jones - Eureka
  tim.jones@house.mo.gov
  
• Sam Page - Creve Coeur
  Sam.Page@house.mo.gov
  
• Terry Young - Kansas City
  Terry.Young@house.mo.gov
  
• Rod Jetton - Marble Hill, Speaker of the House
  Rod.Jetton@house.mo.gov
  
• Rodney Hubbard - St. Louis
  Rodney.Hubbard@house.mo.gov
  
• Rodney Schad - Versailles
  rodney.schad@house.mo.gov
  
• Rick Stream - Kirkwood
  rick.stream@house.mo.gov
  
• Marilyn Ruestman - Joplin
  Marilyn.Ruestman@house.mo.gov
  
• Barney Fischer - Richards
  barney.fisher@house.mo.gov
  
• Mike Parson - Bolivar
  mike.parson@house.mo.gov
  
• Kenny Jones - California
  kenny.jones@house.mo.gov
  
• Jeff Grisamore - Lee's Summit
  jeff.grisamore@house.mo.gov
  
• Shannon Cooper - Clinton, Chair of the Rules Committee (key committee in getting these resolutions passed)
  Shannon.Cooper@house.mo.gov
  
• Rob Schaaf - St. Joseph
  rob.schaaf@house.mo.gov
  
• Darrell Pollock - Lebanon
  darrell.pollock@house.mo.gov
  
• Neal St. Onge - Ellisville, Chair of Transportation Committee
  Neal.St.Onge@house.mo.gov
  
• Rachel Storch - St. Louis
  rachel.storch@house.mo.gov
  
• Talibdin El-Amin - St. Louis
  td.elamin@house.mo.gov
  
• Bryan Pratt - Blue Springs
  Bryan.Pratt@house.mo.gov
  
• Ron Casey - Crystal City
  ron.casey@house.mo.gov
  
• Kate Meiners - Kansas City
  Kate.Meiners@house.mo.gov
  

Related:

News: MoBikeFed legislative update

News: Bicycle Safety Bill passes--again!

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