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New videos educate drivers and bicycle riders on how to share the road

January 31, 2019 /

As part of the development of the Lawrence Bike Plan, eight videos were produced. Celebrate the work of 28 volunteers and City staff in creating these valuable resources.

Bicycle safety education has historically only focused on teaching bicycle riders how to navigate the roadways safely. These videos offer a new perspective, one to which more people can relate, from the motor vehicle driver perspective modeled off The Bicycle Friendly Driver curriculum created by the City of Fort Collins, Colorado.

The curriculum aims to educate motorized vehicle drivers about how and why bicycle riders travel the roadways in the ways they do with the objective of developing a shared understanding for all users.

You can see the video series through this link https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzt8e_efB6wV3FdmE-FOVJa_RbEog_qvD

LDCMPO Needs Your Help – How comfortable do you feel bicycling in Lawrence?

August 21, 2018 /

The Lawrence – Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is updating the Countywide Bikeway Plan. The plan will reconcile the various existing bicycle related plans into one vision for the future of bicycling in Lawrence-Douglas County. Help lay the foundation for work over the next five years to improve bicycling.

In this survey, we will ask you to view and respond to your comfort bicycling on various types of bikeways. The survey has pictures of various bicycle facilities embedded, but if you want to review all facility types in one handout click here.

This survey is for bicycling in Lawrence. If you want to take the survey about Eudora, Baldwin City, or Lecompton click here.

Bicycle Friendly Driver Course Scheduled for July 11th

June 3, 2018 /

The Bicycle Friendly Driver program is an hour interactive class, aimed at educating all drivers on the best and safest ways to share the road with people on bicycles. Developed by FC Bikes in collaboration with Bike Fort Collins. This course answers questions and topics like:

How do most crashes involving motor vehicles and bicyclists occur?

What is the safest way to make a right-hand turn when bike lanes and/or bicyclists are present?

Why do bicyclists ride in the middle of the road?

What’s legal and what’s not legal, for both motorists and bicyclists.

Why bicyclists “take the lane” and what motorists should do in response.

Why sharing the road is the safest alternative for both motorists and bicyclists.

Questions?

Kirsten Yunuba Stephens

785-764-1857
[email protected]

Lawrence Public Library ~ 707 Vermont St, Lawrence KS 66044

The class will be presented in Meeting Room C.

July 11 ^th 2018
7:00-8:00pm

You Need To Know FLAT!

April 23, 2018 /

FLAT | Friends of Lawrence Area Trails There's a local organization you need to get to know. It's called FLAT, no it's not a play on the great plains once you get to the other side of the Flint Hills and can see Denver, FLAT is an acronym for the Friends of Lawrence Area Trails.

FLAT is a nonprofit group devoted to developing, promoting and maintaining a robust and vibrant trails system in Douglas County and northeast Kansas. FLAT’s primary roles are to raise funds for trail construction, build a community of trails supporters, and advocate for city, county and state investment in trails.

The founding committee is composed of local well-known local champions of being active that include:

Kate Dinneen – Chair
Marilyn Hull – Member
Sarah Hill-Nelson – Treasurer
Susan Hampton – Member
Jeff Severin – Member

From their website:

We envision a time when Lawrence area residents and visitors of all ages and abilities have convenient access to a trail system that delivers healthy people, economic growth, and a green future.

Our immediate goal is to work toward completion and greater use of the Lawrence Loop, the 22-mile paved trail that will eventually circle the city.

Looking ahead, we will work toward expanding the Lawrence area trail network and promoting Lawrence as a northeast Kansas trail hub.

FLAT will work collaboratively with existing groups that build and maintain trails and organizations that host events on trails.

We intend to establish ourselves as a 501c3 by the close of 2018. Meanwhile, the Douglas County Community Foundation is accepting tax-deductible donations to the Friends of Lawrence Area Trails Fund.

For more information about FLAT check out their:

Website: http://flatks.org/
Facebook Page: facebook.com/flATKS/
Twitter Feed: https://www.twitter.com/FLATKS
Instagram Account: https://www.instagram.com/flat_ks/

Get On Your Bikes and Ride!

June 7, 2017 /

There are some great family friendly bicycling events for you to check out here in Lawrence and you can even represent Douglas County in the National Bike Challenge! It's easy and gets you out to enjoy the summer.

There are 4 great events (and other weekly ones) for you to check out. They are free and fun for the whole

July 15: Summer Community Bike Ride
Aug. 13: Family Fun Ride
Aug. 19: Family Fun Ride (watch for more details)
Sept. 16: Fall Community Bike Rid e

But there's another cool event running through the rest of the summer. The National Bike Challenge is a nationwide event uniting thousands of current bicyclists—and encouraging countless new riders. It is a free and easy way to challenge yourself, your colleagues and your community to ride more while competing on a local, state and national level.

They use an app called Strava to keep track of all the miles people ride. Currently, Lawrence is in second place in KS by just a hair to Witchita. You can help us over the edge.

The Challenge is a great way to get involved and bicycle more as individuals, companies, and communities, together as a nation. It's not just for hard-core riders, it's for recreational riders too, just get out there, log your miles and represent Douglas County!

To read more about it check out the National Bike Challenge website https://nationalbikechallenge.org/

Miles Ridden in KS as of 6/8/17