Lakers:
Let's help MOBikeFed on this one. Although it's not in our immediate
neighborhood, it's typical of MoDot's thinking and getting them to add
bike accommodations there may set the stage for bike lanes on new
northland roads, too. So - get typing...
-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Hugh [mailto:
brent@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 8:14 AM
To: Krupinski, Keith
Subject: No on-road bicycle facilities on Route 150--your help needed
Keith-
If you could spend 2 minutes sending an email to MoDOT, encouraging them
to include good on-road bicycle accommodations on a major road widening
project, I would appreciate it.
There is a very short fuse on this (only now until Friday) and to make
an impression on this issue we are going to need a LOT of responses
quickly--at least 100 and preferably over 200:
http://mobikefed.org/Route150
The issue is this:
MoDOT is widening Hwy 150 from Grandview to Lee's Summit. This is just
south of the Longview Lake area.
Hwy 150 will become a 4-lane road with 11-foot lanes, no shoulder.
We have talked and talked with MoDOT about including on-street bicycle
facilities.
In the end they had a "budget crunch" and the on-street bicycle
facilities will be omitted.
Instead, they will apply for Enhancements funds to build a "trail"
alongside the road on one side. Also they want to post "share the road"
signs for on-road bicyclists, who they know will, by the design of the
project, be using the full right-hand lane.
Not coincidentally, the Enhancements funds available will not even be
enough to complete the entire "trail" (3 communities, each can apply for
$500,000 in Enhancements funding--that's not enough to pave the entire
trail).
Each end of the project is already built up--neighborhoods, commercial
areas, etc. Within a few decades they are projecting complete infill. So
this will essentially become another urban arterial. And ANOTHER urban
arterial in KC with no bicycle
accommodations:
http://mobikefed.org/Route150
One reason thing we are letting MoDOT know how we feel about this
project, is there are several others around the region and around the
state that are in a similar situation-- for instance, the upcoming Hwy
45 project.
We would like to work towards the time when MoDOT automatically includes
good bicycle accommodations on ALL projects--wherever they are built.
They won't start doing this unless citizens start asking for it:
http://mobikefed.org/Route150
If you enjoy commuting on Bannister, College Blvd, 63rd Street,
Independence Ave., North Oak Trafficway, and similar multi-lane busy
roads in the metro area--that's what 150 Hwy will become. Just another
of our typical high-speed, high-traffic major streets with no particular
on-road bicycle accommodation.
Incidentally they haven't thought at all about how to deal with
intersections/traffic signals on the bicycle 'trail'/sidepath and didn't
even realize it was an issue.
Again, there is a short fuse on this--they are only accepting comments
to be part of their official record of the recent public meeting until
Friday, March 10th.
http://mobikefed.org/Route150
Thank you! Letting MoDOT know how you feel about these projects really
*does* make a difference.
--Brent
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Dr. Brent Hugh, LCI #1335
Director@...
Executive Director --- Missouri Bicycle Federation
www.MoBikeFed.org 816-695-6736
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