I have spent about three hours in Kansas City. That was a long time ago, in a layover on a flight from New York to San Francisco. Outside the airport’s windows, prairie and sky stretched in every direction. (“They built an airport and forgot to build the city,” I thought.) So I may not have been in the city proper, for all I know and am thus unqualified to say anything about it, including the cycling.
That is why I found Ryan Mott’s Twitter account interesting. He started cycling three years ago, gave up his car a year after that and started bringing his daughters to school in the cargo hold of his e-bike last Fall.
His feeds include footage from his helmet camera and recounts some of the perils and joys of being an everyday city cyclist—including being cut off by drivers who turn without warning and passing those same motorists en route to his daughters’ school. It could thus be a valuable resource to present to urban planners and administrators in our efforts to persuade them that bicycles and cyclists are integral in transportation and sustainability planning.
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