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Riverside Trail opens in KC Metro area; KCMO trails plan urged

Saturday, August 30, 2008

A section of trail along the Missouri River northwest of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, opened this weekend.

This is part of a planned trail system along the Missouri River that will eventually stretch throughout the Kansas City metro area

According to the KCStar article:

Platte County and Riverside on Friday opened a $1 million, 3.75-mile hiking and biking trail on the Missouri River�s north bank. About two-thirds of the trail is atop the Riverside-Quindaro Bend Levee the first trail atop a privately owned levee in the Kansas City area.

Eventually the trail will be linked with the riverfront trail in Parkville�s English Landing Park and Kansas City�s planned system in the Line Creek valley.

This week the KCStar also published an editorial urging the city of Kansas City, MO, to adopt & implement a trails plan:

Kansas City�s trails system is an embarrassment to its residents.

The city has a small number of pathways for bicycles and walkers. They amount to just 30 miles in a geographically large city of 450,000. By comparison, Johnson County has 200 miles for a population of 525,000.

Most of Kansas City�s trails aren�t connected to each other.

And despite high public interest in trails, City Hall over the last decade has not built or even planned a more extensive system.

Now a task force of citizens and city officials has taken important steps toward improving the situation.

The draft of a new report � titled �Trails KC! Plan, a comprehensive trails system for Kansas City, Missouri� � clearly acknowledges the city�s shortcomings.

MoBikeFed has been involved in the planning process for the KCMO trails plan, and it will be a good plan--if adopted and implemented.

Encouraging cities, metro areas, and the state to adopt & implement trails, bicycling, and walking plans is an important element in MoBikeFed's Vision of Active Transportation in Missouri.

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