Landon Trail Friends,

The Landon Trail can use your help. As you know the City of Topeka approved the plan to build the Landon Trail in Topeka from 25th Street to about 34th Street. The City match for the funds would be $100,000.

The Kansas Department of Transportation recently announced that they were increasing the funding for the Landon Trail from about $450,000 to $1,100,000. The city match would stay the same at $100,000. This will finish the Landon Trail and the 3 remaining bridges inside town. It would directly link the city section with where the Kanza Rail-Trails Conservancy Volunteers section begins.

The Topeka City Council must approve this Landon Trail Project. It is already engineered, so the funds will go toward construction. It will make the Landon one of the most important public recreational trails in the midwest.

The Landon will connect and be open to the Clinton Lake Wildlife Area and Wakarusa River this fall. Volunteers are making progress weekly.

We need you to telephone and email each Topeka City Council member and ask them to support this project. It will greatly enhance Topeka and northeast Kansas. It will pump money directly into our local construction economy and result in a facility which will be visited by many many people.

To email or phone the city council go to their site at Topeka.org and go to the link for city council. The item comes up tomorrow night, Tuesday August 17th at about 5pm. Please attend if possible to show your support.

If you or your organization would like to have someone speak in support of the trail you should call the City Clerk by 5PM on Tuesday to put your name on the list. You don’t have to say a lot. Just saying you support it, helps.

Pass this on to other trail supporters and ask their help also. It is a win-win for all of us.

Thanks,
John Purvis,
Kanza Rail-Trails Conservancy
785-263-9994

Thanks to WIBW for inviting us over to talk about the shop. Volunteer Robert Fitzgerald appeared on WIBW’s News @ 4 to talk about TCCP with anchor Melissa Brunner.

Click here to view!
http://wibw.videogenesis.net/watch?v=10764

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It’s been a busy winter and spring down at the shop. Lots has been accomplished in two hour increments since opening January 15th. Now that the shop has the basic structure in place, we are expanding our hours!

SHOP HOURS
Thursdays 5pm – 7pm
Saturdays 10am – 1pm

Once we get overhead lights installed we’ll expand our Thursday hours. Donations are accepted any time the shop is open. If you are interested in volunteering, please sign up here: http://bit.ly/d6cADg

The Topeka Community Cycle Project and Friends of the Free State Capitol, Inc. have entered into an agreement allowing the TCCP to lease the space at 423 S. Kansas Ave. in downtown Topeka, KS for a community bicycle workshop. Let the fun begin.

The Topeka Community Cycle Project is now recognized by the State of Kansas as a non-profit organization. This organization designation will assist our efforts in securing a community workspace in Topeka.

Fun Fact: the State of Kansas requires a term to end any non-profit’s name and apparently “Project” is not on the approved list. So on paper with the state we are the Topeka Community Cycle Project College. Say that five times fast…

The Topeka Community Cycle Project is currently working to secure a space in Topeka that will allow for a community-run learning space open to the public. Similar to the on-site workshops, this space will allow the community to have access to the tools and training necessary to repair and maintain a bicycle. Through bicycle repair education we aim to promote the ideals of empowerment through self-reliance, sustainability, and healthful living in the Topeka area.

If you know of a property owner interested in supporting the Topeka Community Cycle Project through the use of their space, please leave a comment.