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Gateway Bike Plan

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Gateway Bike Plan Ratified by Wildwood Officials

Wildwood city council members endorse an addendum to the city's mobility and access plan for walkers, joggers, bicyclists, equestrians and motorists.

Wildwood staff directors and city council members at Monday's city council meeting ratified a regional Gateway Bike Plan designed to create more "complete streets" and to increase overall safety. The stated vision of the plan was to "create a bicycle component to the regional transportation network that accommodates all users and promotes consistent design and development of bicycle facilities." Its mission is to "increase the number of people using bicycles for transportation while reducing the number of crashes involving bicycles." A public hearing about the topic was held in Wildwood earlier this month. See related coverage for complete details:  Gateway Bike Plan Endorsed by Wildwood The project manager of this bike plan happens to be …

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Gateway Bike Plan Endorsed by Wildwood

A regional transportation plan that regulates safer and more complete mobility and access plans for walkers, joggers, bicyclists, equestrians and motorists is being reviewed. But the topic comes with questions about bicyclists-motorists conflicts.

A public hearing regarding Wildwood's involvement with a regional Gateway Bike Plan was conducted last Monday evening at the Wildwood City Hall. The Gateway Bike Plan is a collaboration of three Missouri counties and nearly 100 cities across the St. Louis metropolitan area. The plan was spearheaded by Great Rivers Greenway in 2009. Public entities involved with formulating the plan were East-West Gateway Council of Governments, Missouri Department of Transportation, Metro, St. Louis city representatives, St. Louis County representatives, St. Charles County representatives, numerous municipalities' representatives and Trailnet. Additionally, citizen advisory committee members weighed in. The project manager of this bike plan happens to be …

Steven Weiss

2:41 pm on Saturday, March 30, 2013

Bicycling on Fox Creek Road is very dangerous to everyone. It's a shame that Wildwood actually supports this dangerous activity by ones that don't even live in Wildwood. There isn't even a bike lane on Fox Creek Road and the bicyclist have ridden side-by-side on numerous times, especially on the curvy sections going towards MotoMart. Why do the bicyclists enjoy putting others at risk for their …   more ›

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