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Comparing federal Safe Streets for All Grants in 2024 vs 2025 | League of American Bicyclists The fourth year of grant awards for the popular Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program were announced on December 23, 2025. . . . A clear change in the projects receiving awards is that the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)’s Proven Safety Countermeasures were referenced in a...

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15.02.2026 07:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Trail developments in Warsaw MO will make physical and social connections - 7 new miles of trail plus Complete Streets initiative | KY3 The city of Warsaw has six miles of trails, but soon that number will double. A $249,000 grant from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources is allowing Warsaw to add seven more miles of trails in the city and extend them out into the county. Master and comprehensive plans noted tha...

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14.02.2026 10:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
First reviews in for Joplin's MOmentum Bike Park snapshot - 25K+ visits already | KOAM Joplin Parks and Recreation's MOmentum Bike Park is proving to be a big hit! MOmentum Bike Park has already welcomed more than 25,200 visits from over 12,000 visitors! . . . This proves how strong the demand is for outdoor recreation in our region." People are not only coming but they ...

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13.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
How many nondrivers in th U.S.? Way more chan you think . . . | Streetsblog USA Research published last September from NRDC found that 36.6 percent of the population over the age of 10 in the US cannot drive or lack reliable access to a car. Yet nondrivers remain largely invisible. I would conjecture this is largely due to who is most likely to be a nondriver: disabl...

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07.02.2026 05:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A United Call to Congress at a Time When Essential Funding is Under Fire: Walking and Biking Infrastructure Matters | League of American Bicyclists Today, the League joined the American Hiking Society, American Trails, PeopleForBikes, Rails to Trails Conservancy, and the Safe Routes Partnership – plus more than 1,100 nonprofit organizations, businesses, corporations and elected officials in sending a letter to Congress with a clear m...

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06.02.2026 00:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Columbia proposes railbanking of 2.5 miles of COLT Railroad through city - open house Feb 12th | City of Columbia, MO The City of Columbia is seeking community input regarding the proposed railbanking of the COLT Railroad from Rogers St. to East Brown Station Rd. The City of Columbia has owned and operated the COLT Railway from downtown Columbia to Centralia since 1987. Businesses along the 2.5-mile sect...

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04.02.2026 13:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Where do most pedestrian deaths occur? What can be done to stop them? | CDC - Higher vehicle speeds increase both the likelihood of a pedestrian being struck by a car and the injury severity. - Most pedestrian deaths (60% in 2021) occur on high-capacity urban roads that typically have posted speed limits of 45-55 miles per hour. Many of these roads suffer from ...

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02.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Rumors Flying that Trump Admin Wants to Remove Most or All Bike Lanes in Washington DC — Streetsblog USA The feds appear to be mounting an argument that bike lanes cause congestion in the nation's capitol — and advocates are bracing for a fight. . . . The federal government is hunting for a justification to eliminate key bike lanes in the nation's capital, sources say — and if the feds are ...

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31.01.2026 00:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Will New Jersey's Terrible E-Bike Law Spread to Other States? — Streetsblog USA "The New Jersey law is the most serious legislative attack on bicycling in many years, and the fear is that other states will follow suit." . . . Panic is the appropriate response to the passage and signing of a new law in New Jersey that requires all e-bike riders 17 and older to have...

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30.01.2026 17:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Callaway County making changes after death of 9-year-old at Katy Trail crossing | KOMU Callaway County is working to make trails safer after a deadly crash at a crossing between the Katy Trail and a county road in July 2025. . . . On July 24, 2025, a pickup truck struck and killed a 9-year-old boy in the 12000 block of County Road 391. The boy was crossing County Road 391 ...

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29.01.2026 07:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Columbia pedestrian ordinance proposed to greatly restrict pedestrian access to major streets, citizen feedback requested | KOMU Columbia's Bicycle and Pedestrian Commission met Wednesday evening to discuss a potential new pedestrian safety ordinance. . . . "It will impact all of Columbia because we have major roadways", said Commissioner Chair Elke Boyd. "Pedestrians will be affected because it will make it ba...

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28.01.2026 14:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Missouri gains new national bicycle route: ACA's Golden Gravel Trail, a 3,700-mile east-to-west gravel epic; 450 miles in Missouri | Singletracks The Adventure Cycling Association just mapped a 3,700-mile gravel route from the Oregon Coast to the Mississippi River that balances wild, remote riding with predictable resupply towns. . . . The 3,700-mile Golden Gravel Trail unfurls across eight states, from the Pacific Ocean to the Mi...

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05.01.2026 05:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Missouri's quest for a new cross-state Roch Island Trail moving forward as several comminities build sections - STLToday It has been a decade since crews began clearing a dilapidated railroad line envisioned to someday connect a string of small Missouri towns on a 144-mile journey across rivers, through underground tunnels and past acres of rural land. Eventually, the entire Rock Island Trail will be 205 m...

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03.01.2026 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Construction Begins On New Hiking & Biking Trail At Lake Of The Ozarks - 70 miles Planned - Lake Expo “We have finally started construction,” said Stacy Pyrtle, with a blend of relief and enthusiasm. Pyrtle, the President of the Community Foundation of the Lake (CFL), is helping spearhead an ambitious project to construct approximately 70 miles of trails at the Lake of the Ozarks, called...

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22.12.2025 16:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cole Camp and Versailles Have Broken Ground on Rock Island Trail Projects | Missouri Rock Island Trail Two historic central Missouri communities — Versailles and Cole Camp — celebrated major milestones Friday, October 24th, with groundbreaking ceremonies marking the next phase of development for Rock Island Trail State Park, Missouri’s 93rd and newest state park. The twin ceremonies symb...

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21.12.2025 07:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Advocates Push for Safety in Next Surface Transportation Reauthorization — Streetsblog USA As Congress gears up to reauthorize America's surface transportation programs, advocates are calling on federal lawmakers to reinforce state laws that keep residents safer on the road — whether they're driving or not. In its annual “Roadmap to Safety” report, the Advocates for Highway & ...

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21.12.2025 05:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
$1.5 Billion in BUILD Grants Available, Application Deadline Feb 2026 | League of American Bicyclists The U.S. Department of Transportation recently announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for BUILD grants, making $1.5 billion available based on outlays from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. With grant awards up to $25 million available for projects, this NOFO...

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19.12.2025 09:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Columbia residents split on proposal to ban pedestrians from medians - safety or restricting panhandling the real issue? City asks for citizen feedback | Missourian In the works for more than a year, the ordinance would restrict people from occupying medians in locations across the city. . . . Some see this as a way to discourage unsafe behavior around busy roads. Carrie Gartner, executive director of the Loop Community Improvement District, said sh...

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18.12.2025 00:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Hidden Wonders: Backbacking the O'ark Trail at Taum Sauk Mountain in Missouri | Backpacker.com See Missouri's tallest waterfall and stand on its tallest peak on this overnight on the Taum Sauk section of the Ozark Trail. In just a couple of hours on the Ozark Trail, I’ve already hit the state high point and the state’s tallest waterfall. And yet the big and the tall aren’t what m...

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17.12.2025 07:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Washington MO officials decline pedestrian access for new Hwy 100 Bridge over Dubois Creek | Missourian The Washington Area Highway Transportation Committee rejected an idea to add pedestrian paths to the Old Highway 100 bridge over Dubois Creek when it is replaced next year. MoBikeFed comment: This is of committee of Washington City, with members appointed by the mayor. Minutes for recen...

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16.12.2025 12:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Conservative Utah announces 3100 mile paved Trail Network Master Plan connecting all Utah cities - so when will Missouri follow? | Sun On October 28, Governor Spencer Cox announced to the Utah Transportation Conference the finalization of the Utah Trail Network Master Plan, the blueprint for a series of over 3,000 miles connecting major locations throughout the state. The trails are in­tended to be paved, inter­connect...

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13.12.2025 07:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
City takes 14 years to paint a needed crosswalk, so advocates take the paintbrush into their own hands. Then what? | NextCity Los Angeles failed to eliminate traffic fatalities, so Angelenos are taking Vision Zero into their own hands – one bucket of paint at a time. Painting a crosswalk is cheap and easy. A group of neighbors can paint an entire intersection in one morning for $100 or less. Getting the city of...

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12.12.2025 13:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Is Sprawl Necessary? | FutureOfWhere Our metro areas are inevitably going to grow out as well as up. How can we manage that process to benefit our lives, our wallets, and our environment? . . . My message . . . was that cities like Fort Worth are going to grow both up and out. And so we’d better make sure we do both pretty ...

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11.12.2025 21:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
KC metro cities are swiftly changing e-bike policies. Is it the right solution? | KCStar Shawnee and Prairie Village have tightened ordinances, banning or limiting youth e-bikes and scooters, while Kansas City targets driver behavior in school zones. . . . In Kansas, Johnson County cities like Shawnee and Prairie Village have amended ordinances to be stricter on scooter and ...

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09.12.2025 00:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Friend mourns cyclist killed after being struck by car officials were called to Manchester near Tamm Ave. to reports of a person being struck by a car. Another bicyclist was killed at the exact spot a few years prior, serving a grim reminder for riders. . . . Bailey says separated lanes could have saved her friend’s life. “(Lakey was) just...

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08.12.2025 07:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
U.S. pedestrian deaths has increased 70% since 2010. Why? | Washington Post The number of pedestrians killed by vehicles in the United States has surged amid neglect and lack of investment by transportation authorities. Between 2010 and 2023, yearly deaths caused by cars and trucks striking pedestrians rose 70 percent, an examination of federal data and other pu...

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07.12.2025 08:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
St. Louis has its first citywide transportation plan in 77 years; first to incorporate biking, walking, transit | Fox 2 On Friday, the city of St. Louis announced that for the first time since 1948, they will have a new citywide transportation plan, establishing a new foundation for how the city designs, maintains and prioritizes its streets, sidewalks, and transit infrastructure . . . incorporating feedba...

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06.12.2025 09:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
USDOT proposal to eliminate federal transit funding will 'strand millions of Americans'- Transportation For America In response to reports from Politico that the Trump administration is proposing to eliminate federal transit funding and the flexibility states have to determine how to spend their own formula dollars, Steve Davis, Director of Transportation for America, offered this statement: “This sh...

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05.12.2025 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
House T&I Chair, Missouri's Sam Graves, Vows ‘No Money for Bikes or Walking’ in Fed Transportation Bill — Streetsblog USA The politician in charge of writing the next major federal transportation bill has signaled his intent to zero out funding for walking and biking infrastructure — unless advocates can rally their own representatives to resist him. Rep. Sam Graves, (R–Mo.), told Punchbowl News that he did...

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04.12.2025 07:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Traffic deaths in the U.S. remain higher than they were a decade ago, in part because Americans' driving got worse during the pandemic - CBS News Despite local, state, and federal safety campaigns, such as the global Vision Zero initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities, such deaths are up 20% in the U.S. from a decade ago, from 32,744 in 2014 to an estimated 39,345 in 2024, according to data from the Department of Transportation'...

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02.12.2025 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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