Like It Or Not: More Kansas City East Side Bike Lanes Coming Soon

Let's remember that just last week we heard repeated complaints about Kansas City residents endangered by poor design and bad planning of bike lanes on Armour Blvd.

It's also worth remembering that earlier this year on Truman Road, residents united to push back bike lanes that also endangered the neighborhood and devastated local small biz.

And yet . . .

MORE SKETCHY BIKE LANES MIGHT BE COMING SOON TO EAST SIDE KANSAS CITY DESPITE NEIGHBORHOOD RESISTANCE!!!

Thanks to the unilateral actions of a council dude seemingly emboldened by a slight lead in the primary and despite ongoing outcry from residents against bike lanes . . . Here we are . . . Under the threat of even more sketchy amateur urban planning on the East side.

Take a peek . . .

District Councilman Eric Bunch, was created last Thursday, May 4, and assigned to the councils Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations Committee, which is set to review the item at its regularly-scheduled meeting on Wednesday, May 10.

Several bike lanes have already been installed in the area, and the stretch along Cleaver II Boulevard would help connect that network further west to Main Street and the eventual opening of the southern expansion of the Kansas City Streetcar, which includes a stop at the Country Club Plaza.

What this shows us . . .

COUNCIL DUDE BUNCH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT COMMUNITY RESISTANCE TO BIKE LANES AND SEEMS CONTENT TO PUSH HIS AGENDA DESPITE COMPLAINTS!!!

What's worse is that hundreds of Kansas City residents oppose how bike lanes are thrust upon them and a smallish but vocal group of bike lane enthusiast supporters of this tech are content to ignore neighborhoods and move forward simply because they win fights on Twitter.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .

Kansas City considering expansion of bike lanes on Cleaver II Boulevard

Bike lanes in Kansas City could get a key expansion under a new city ordinance being considered. The ordinance, if passed, would install new bike lanes from Troost to Main Street. A new plan would upgrade some existing lanes to be safer and install new lanes on seven blocks of Cleaver II Boulevard.

Kansas City set to consider expansion of bike lanes on Cleaver II between Main Street, Troost Avenue

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Kansas City, Missouri, City Council is set to take an initial review Thursday of a proposal that would install bike lanes on a stretch of Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard between Troost Avenue and Main Street.

Developing . . .