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== Law ==
 
== Law ==
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== Kansas Side ==
 
This excerpt is from the Standard Traffic Ordinances of Kansas Cities book which all cities in Johnson county (suburbs of Kansas City--including but not limited to Lenexa, Shawnee, Overland Park, Merriam, De Soto, and Olathe) have adopted as of 2010:
 
This excerpt is from the Standard Traffic Ordinances of Kansas Cities book which all cities in Johnson county (suburbs of Kansas City--including but not limited to Lenexa, Shawnee, Overland Park, Merriam, De Soto, and Olathe) have adopted as of 2010:
  
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This is typical code meaning you are within your rights to solicit a ride from the shoulder or berm of a road.
 
This is typical code meaning you are within your rights to solicit a ride from the shoulder or berm of a road.
  
On the Missouri side of the city, generally no one will give you trouble for hitchhiking.
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== Missouri Side ==
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On the Missouri side of the city, the cops have better things to do than mess with you for hitchhiking.
 
The Kansas City, MO law states:
 
The Kansas City, MO law states:
  

Revision as of 23:37, 26 April 2012

Kansas City is a city at the border of Kansas and Missouri spreading on both side of the State line.

Law

Kansas Side

This excerpt is from the Standard Traffic Ordinances of Kansas Cities book which all cities in Johnson county (suburbs of Kansas City--including but not limited to Lenexa, Shawnee, Overland Park, Merriam, De Soto, and Olathe) have adopted as of 2010:

Sec. 69. Pedestrians Soliciting Rides or Business.

(a) No person shall stand upon or along a street or highway for the purpose of soliciting a ride.

The cops may not always mind, but citizens will call 911 on you at which point the cops will have to tell you to stop hitchhiking.

Cities in Wyandotte county (central/northwest Kansas City) are not illegal to hitchhike in. Wyandotte County has a unified government code which states:

Sec. 35-404. - Pedestrians soliciting rides or business.

(a)No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride.

This is typical code meaning you are within your rights to solicit a ride from the shoulder or berm of a road.

Missouri Side

On the Missouri side of the city, the cops have better things to do than mess with you for hitchhiking. The Kansas City, MO law states:

Sec. 70-787. - Pedestrians soliciting rides or business.permanent link to this piece of content

(a)No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride.

(b)No person shall stand on a street or highway for the purpose of soliciting employment, business or contributions from the occupant of any vehicle.

Sec. 70-1. - Definitions

Roadway means that portion of a street or highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the sidewalk, berm or shoulder, even though such sidewalk, berm or shoulder is used by persons riding bicycles or other human-powered vehicles.

Highway means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. Street means the entire width between boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.


Due to the wording of section (b) it may be construed by a cop on a power trip that "soliciting contributions from the occupant of any vehicle" includes soliciting a ride and is considered illegal on a Highway However, this is unlikely because of the explicit wording in section (a) regarding hitchhiking being illegal on a Roadway instead.

Hitchhiking out

From downtown you can ask bus drivers how to get to joco Johnson county community college. From there you can get a bus to the college in Lawrence (K-10 connector). Keep in mind this is going take a while for waiting and stuff. They don't make it very easy but it will cost no more then about 6 bucks all together.

Another option is to hitch from a truck stop with a trucker.

Jason got a ride from Lawrence to KC to hitch south on the 69. Cops pulled over within 10 minutes, told him that hitchhiking is illegal in the United States of America. Whaa, after 5 weeks hitchhiking the States, now they tell him? Hit the onramp again after they left, they returned, threatened with arrest. Taken to the state line and dumped on a countryside closed road, 5 miles away from anything. Sweet! Thank you, Kansas City! Thus the 71 south is probably more advisable if you're heading south.