Kansas City’s small solution to a big bike infrastructure challenge

Kansas City, Missouri, city officials have a new vehicle in their garage heading into the fall and winter that will help keep protected bike lanes clean.

Thick photos. If you’ve heard from Jewett, please call police. >> A small vehicle is making a big impact. Keeping Kansas City, Missouri’s bike lanes, alleyways and sidewalks, clear city just got a mini street sweeper as part of its ongoing

Effort to expand safe places for people to biking, get around town other ways on any given day, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll see. Nick Ward, Bob Cycling around Kansas City at some point I bike commuter 9200 miles a week.

>> That includes taking his kids to school a few blocks away in his Hyde Park neighborhood that heading all the way to Shawnee Mission Park in Johnson County, Kansas, to go to work 3 to 4 times a week. It’s about 30

Miles round trip. At least some of that journey is on the protected bike infrastructure in Kansas City, Missouri, like the Gillum Cycle track, the plastic bollards in concrete curbs give cyclists of all ages and anybody else using the lanes a little extra

Protection from vehicles right next to them. But that protection can make the lanes hard to clear of leaves acorns and dirt after heavy rain. Why Kansas City City manager Brian Platt wanted to get this many street sweeper for roughly 2

Years it has the same functionality as a regular street sweeper, except that fits into those smaller and hard to reach places $150,000 vehicle took about 18 months to show up with another one on the way right behind it. We’ve got another fully electric, 0

Emissions. Many sweeper on the way. That’s going to be another few months after this. >> Plus says that one cost almost twice as much because it’s fully electric. likes the city’s new acquisition helping keep his pap clear, making it easier for more people to

Commit to cycling the way he It just connects assets, local assets with its grocery stores, whether it’s >> university schools, parks, it connects people. >> If you’re interested in where those bike lanes connecting where you can ride