Kansas City needs to become more walkable. Here’s how that can happen

As City Council adopts policies to make walking safer, officials will need to craft one unified vision on what equitable walkability will look like in the future.

by Mili Mansaray on September 16, 2022 in The Kansas City Beacon

Ira Boydston speaks frankly about the prospects of walking with his children to their elementary school in Kansas City’s Red Bridge neighborhood.

“It’s across Red Bridge Road, which can suck to try to get across it,” Boydston said. (Boydston is a Beacon community engagement representative. View a program description here.)

“It could be very challenging, especially with little ones.”

Like other streets in Kansas City, Red Bridge Road is a heavily trafficked thoroughfare bordered by residential neighborhoods. Cars speed along the road, ignoring crosswalks. 

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