Bike Walk Kc

Public policy and community planning involves building relationships with elected officials and community leaders to implement policies that improve the built environment, especially in neighborhoods that have been historically underfunded and disinvested. Bike walk kc partners with local municipalities, school districts, and regional, state, and federal agencies, as well as other active transportation advocacy organizations across both missouri and kansas to improve walking and biking through public policy and school travel planning. Bike walk kc uses walk audits, technical assistance, built environment assessments, traffic counting/calming events, the home street home exhibition, and other activities to help neighborhoods identify problems related to the built environment, street safety, walkability/bikeability, and other infrastructure issues.

An important part of bikewalkkcs advocacy, education, and public policy work includes researching local conditions, analyzing best practices, and developing strategies to achieve our mission of redefining our streets as places for people to build a culture of active living. Youth bicycling increased 68% after participating in bikewalkkc safe routes to school program. Bicycles allow men experiencing homelessness to maintain relationships, access shelter, resources, and employment, and build social capital and self esteem after participating bikewalkkc programs. Research from umkc shows that building out a new bike network that prioritizes physically separated bike lanes will save 36 lives per year and boost the local economy by 500 million. Bikewalkkc assisted the kansas city, mo planning departments bicycle master plan process by identifying priority corridors and routes for future investment in bicycle infrastructure.