Bicycle Links

Lewis & Clark Water Trail - a newly launched web site from the Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources, Conservation Department, and Division of Tourism, includes a series of trip planning tools and resources designed to help you plan a paddling excursion on the lower Missouri River. The Missouri River offers a truly unique opportunity to paddle through history. Using a canoe or kayak, a paddler can choose to solo camp on a sandbar in an apparent wilderness setting or stay in a bed and breakfast and tour a historic river town.

Chicago's guide for designing streets with bicycle lanes (PDF file) - Chicago routinely provides bicycle lanes on streets as narrow as 44 feet. This guide is helpful for any city considering retrofitting existing streets to include bicycle lanes or other bicycling accommodations.

Bicycle Parking Guidelines - how, where, when, and why to install bike racks, from the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals, 2002.

Is it safe enough to bicycle there? Ask female riders . . . "Women cyclists," the city's transportation office asserts, "are the indicators of a healthy bikeway network."

Bicycle Parking in North America - summary of ideas and procedures used in various cities.

Minnesota bicycle parking specs - the specific of how and where to locate bicycle parking, specs for racks, etc.

Mississippi River Trail - coursing along America’s backbone, the Mississippi River, from its headwaters in Itasca, Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, offers approximately 3,000 miles of on-road and bike/pedestrian pathways for the recreational enjoyment, health, conservation, and tourism development of river communities, river states, and the nation.

Kansas City, Missouri, walkability plan

Traffic count maps for all MoDOT districts, collision statistic summaries, and other useful data.

Bicycle Facility Design by traffic engineer Richard Moeur - excellent summary of how to design really good bicycle facilities. Includes summaries of good/bad facility designs, crash data analysis, and diagrams showing the problems inherent in putting bicycle paths alongside roads.

The Effect of Cycle Lanes on Cyclists' Road
Space - The effect of the cycle lane studied in this report [substandard width of 1.5 meters] is to reduce the amount of roadspace available to cyclists, and therefore makes conditions significantly worse for cyclists.

Why Bicyclists Hate Stop Signs (PDF)

FHWA Course on Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation

Bicycle Safety: What Every Parent Should Know (PDF format) - This 4-page pamphlet from the Active Living Resource Center tells parents in plain English the most important things to teach their children about bicycling safely.

Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices - the whys and wherefores of traffic signs and pavement markings.