TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! A CITY THAT WORKS? KC IS A TIRE DUMPING WASTELAND!!!
These photos come courtesy of one of the most AWESOME TKC TIPSTERS and the illegal dumping they capture speaks directly to empty rhetoric regarding "a City that works" and lame "new tools" that don't involve picking up trash along with the so-called Renaissance that this town was supposed to enjoy after hundreds of millions were spent to lure and entertain the parasites and leaches from Johnson County.
Take a look . . . This is how Kansas City really looks:
Where the rubber meets the road . . . Or at least the side streets of KC.
This isn't a used tire lot . . . Just one of many, local abandoned parcels of land in the metro.
More street side tires . . .
This bridge is closer to Downtown than anyone would dare imagine . . . Within walking distance actually, not that anybody would bother.
Once gain, not a tire dump, just an illegal tire dumping ground.
What you should know about these photos . . . They're the work of a community activist who has presented the photo set to more than half the City Council and other folks who allegedly have the ear of the Mayor. There has been absolutely no action . . . Most of these tires haven't moved.
Sadly, like so many others this civic activist is picking up and leaving Kansas City, this tire dump of a cowtown, behind . . . From the way these photos make Kansas City look . . . I can't say I blame him.
posted by Tony Permalink
I need a new tire. I wonder if any of these have a few miles left?
starting to look like Detroit, Cleveland, Dayton, Pittsburgh, any of the dying steel/heavy manufactureing cities east of the mississippi.
"this is the end" jim morrison
"I swear, officer, I had my trash coupons stapled to each of those tires for pick up..."
Midtown Miscreant better watch his back. TKC knows how to profile urban blight too!!!
what a dump
hmmm...I wonder if there is still a market for those swings made out of old tires. Looks like I could get the materials for free.
Hey I saw some of these tires, --a block north of Truman road. Behind the tire shop. Isn't there a state law that rtequires that these old tires be collected by a licensed recycler? This liiks like a cottage inmdustry--give me a humdred bucks and I will dump a truck load of tires for you.
So do you think that any of the council members in the third district will do anything about this?
you can't just throw a tire away. you can't throw away construction debris either. until KC figures out that people need to throw shit like that away the town will look like a dump. your average 64130 resident does not care about disposing of trash correctly. the city needs to pick any and everything up. they refuse to collect the trash so it's no wonder it gets dumped everywhere.
This is disgusting.
In Nebraska(probably other states, too) there are stretches of highway made with recycled tires--why don't we do that? And they also use the recycled rubber for playgrounds...let's re-use these tires...
Good suggestion, anything has to be better than this.
credit card kay didn't like the idea of being labeled a cowtown but her policies of selling out to corporations made kc the dumptown!
The activist should switch from bitching to finding a workable solution that picks up and recycles tires. Currently most "green" methods are actually cost prohibitive. Kansas City is not the only place struggling with tires. Who wants to pay more money ?
Tony: Were these photos taken at Nimrod Chapel's property ?
Great, now we're gonna lose all that tourism revenue.
LoLzeRZ
Seriously, Tony. Tire disposal as been a serious invironmental problem long before YOUR little brown eyed ass was born.
Tires, filled with rainwater bring serious disease due to mosquito infestation. And tires just don't go into the waste land well, they're so big.
Tires, when burned really darken the atmosphere. The only real way to get rid of tires is to shred them to small parts and bury them. They do NOT desintegrate but they can be made much smaller than they are in natural state.
I'ts why the Walmarts of the world charge for disposal, it take money to shred tires to ther smallest parts. But there are so many who wont pay the price and so they just dump them, leaving their disposal and their mosquito problems to others!
This is why the EPA rightfully should address property owners who allowed the dumping of unwanted tires to pay for their proper disaposal.
Who ELSE would you suggest should pay for disposal? Barack Obama?
Lets bring back an aggressive US EPA now that the Bush republicans have told them not to get too aggressive about cleaning up America!
Yes, now we have to pay for disposal, and forcing landowners in court to pay for disposal, since all Bush's money went for was to the war!
Looks like my old hometown of Detroit. Does KC really want to go there? Looks like whole swaths of the country are heading in that direction. Unfortunately (or fortunately) Detroit's still #1 for f**d-up cities that are never coming back. How could it? What does it have to offer? Shitty weather, an un-educated and violent population, no public transportation and complete indifference in the suburbs. Watch out KC--you're all in it together whether you realize it or not.
Shit Phony Tony. Maybe Rita can find a tire for the POS car that is parked in front of your house. Oh well, it's cheaper for her to give you bus money to you pussy job at Subway. Make me a sammich beaner!
Yep, it's clearly Bush's fault.
ya know...all those tires could make a strong pad stacked an filled wif dirt...maybe de losers by de river could make something of them this summer...
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