Bicycle police to patrol Trolley Trail and Brookside area

Today's KCStar has a long article about new bicycle police patrols on the Trolley Track Trail:

Bell and other residents along the Trolley Track Trail and other parts of Waldo and Brookside should be seeing more officers on bikes this year, thanks to an effort last year by the area’s businesses and homes associations.

Together they raised about $5,500 and bought six new bicycles that were specially outfitted for police.

Johnson County trails

Today's KCStar had an article about plans to make the Johnson County trail system more connected and complete;

We’re trying to connect our trails to schools so kids can walk or ride their bikes to school rather than having to be driven all the time.”
Dale Crawford, park project coordinator

For years, Johnson County trails were used for romantic walks, scenic jogs or family outings.

Where they ended, few people knew — or cared.

Now trails are becoming more, well, practical.

You can have your walk and enjoy it, too. But in the future, trails are more likely to take you somewhere, such as your daughter’s school or the neighborhood shopping center.

With 174 miles of trail on the ground, Johnson County has just under half the mileage in the metropolitan area, said Aaron Bartlett, bicycle and pedestrian planner for the Mid-America Regional Council. By comparison, Jackson County has a little more than 80 miles of trail.

Read more on the KCStar web site.