MetroGreen ride

October 10th, 2005

Last weekend I rode the City-to-City bike ride, which was organized to promote the Riverfront Heritage Trail and the larger MetroGreen trail/greenway system. It was a pretty ride through KC and KCK, although it the long stretches of industrial wasteland in the East Bottoms did get a little old. A lot of the suburban riders were kinda scared. More time in the Old Northeast would have been a better showcase for the area. Then over on the KCK leg of the ride I was the one kinda scared. The drivers were much less tolerant of bikes than on the Missouri side, and the route followed some roads that were too busy and narrow. I’m usually pretty fearless biking in traffic, but the KCK traffic made me a little uneasy.

Aaron Barnhart has some great photos of the ride over at is TV Barn blog.

Unfortunately the ride used very little of the actual Riverfront Trail. They just used a little bit in KCK where it crossed the Kaw River on the old Woodsweather railroad bridge, which has been nicely restored into a bike/ped bridge. Hopefully MARC will start doing a lot more promotion of the MetroGreen, because the riverfront trail is basically stalled while they try to raise money. Several key pieces are still missing, such as the underpass under the ASB railroad bridge, a bike/ped bridge down to the West Bottoms, and a corridor under the Lewis and Clark Viaduct through the bottoms.


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2 Responses to “MetroGreen ride”

  1. Marti says:
    10/12/2005 at 3:43 pm

    That sounds like a great ride!

    I hope they fix the problems you encountered.

  2. geile huisvrouwen says:
    3/15/2008 at 7:26 pm

    gratis huisvrouwen…

    Geile huisvrouwen…