City of Topeka receives praise for its bike-friendly community

City of Topeka receives praise for its bike-friendly community

The League of American Bicyclists honored the efforts of the City of Topeka to build better places for people to bike with a Bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) award on Tuesday, Jan. 28.

Topeka officials want Manhattan, Lawrence to join its metro area

By Megan Moser Matt Pivarnik, CEO of the Greater Topeka Partnership, was the final speaker of the day for Friday’s Regional Growth Summit, a day-long conference put on by the Manhattan, Junction City and Wamego chambers of commerce. He and colleagues discussed combining Topeka and Manhattan — as well as Lawrence and possibly other cities — to form a bigger metropolitan statistical area (MSA). The benefit, they said, is showing a higher populati…