Your support is crucial for advocating to improve statewide active transportation planning and development in Missouri. This blog outlines three steps to move the needle:
MRT is advocating for MoDOT to adopt a statewide active transportation plan to address critical gaps in safety, funding, connectivity, and policy for non-motorized transportation across Missouri.
A Missouri statewide active transportation plan would:
If you represent an organization and support the need for a statewide active transportation plan, please write a letter of support. Letters will be consolidated and shared as part of the public comment period for MoDOT's 2026 Long-Range Transportation Plan update.
Letters of support from organizations across MO are calling for a statewide active transportation plan:
Please send completed letters to jackson@movingmissouri.org by January 31, 2026.
MoDOT is updating Missouri's Long-Range Transportation Plan in 2026, which "sets the 25-year vision for the state’s transportation system and establishes goals and objectives."
The LRTP will have a public comment period from January 14-February 13, 2026 (*note, MoDOT may postpone the opening date to February), and this is our opportunity to demonstrate the statewide interest and need for a Missouri active transportation planning framework.
