STREETCAR SUPREMACY AGAIN



The light rail d-bags are chatting to each other again . . . Here's their latest bad idea:

"The case for a downtown streetcar"

That's cute and I didn't read the whole thing but if it's anything like the failed light rail plan that Kansas City overwhelmingly rejected then it's completely unworkable and nothing but middle-class amateur urban planner folly.

Here's the better question:

AFTER HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THROWN AWAY ON DOWNTOWN WITH ONLY MASSIVE DEBT TO SHOW FOR IT . . . WHY NOT INVEST IN OTHER PARTS OF KANSAS CITY?

To wit . . .

THERE IS A BETTER CASE FOR PUTTING STREET CARS ON PROSPECT WHERE THEY WOULD REALLY SPARK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT!!!

My idea won't ever come to fruition because this town is trapped in a backward mindset that keeps communities divided by income levels and race . . . But the fact remains that throwing good money after bad downtown has failed to create the Renaissance we were promised . . . So maybe it's time to try something new.

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  1. Dobbie and Gerald both said that the huge cost is because they are trying to slip in the Light Rail infrastructure so that when no one is looking they can buy one of the BIG BIG Light Rail TRAINS and put it on the street car rails. Another instance of when the KCATA is not being totally up front and honest. Railroad Russ is the Mensa man Brain behind this most recent deal. Should make for another interesting ballot proposal. where is that weird-o Clay when we need him. If he doesn't hurry up and get another proposal on to the ballot we will end up having some old clanky streetcars running on shiny new Light Rail Rails through downtown.Where is the gondola and the ferris wheel. Russ is too interested in making a name for himself to include any of the fun things that will make us a first class city.

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  2. Street cars would be great. we don't have the money.

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  3. Respectfully, I have to disagree Tony. I live and work in the city and find it to be completely different than it was 3-5 years ago. It seems new restaurants and shops are opening all the time. I see more and more people walking and enjoying downtown. And not just at P&L. Should we focus on other portions of the city as well? Of course we should. I love 39th Street, for example. Should we do more to solve some of the socioeconomic disparities in this city, of course we should. But, I hardly think downtown "has failed to create the Renaissance we were promised."

    It will take longer than fifteen years to reverse nearly half a century of decline.

    I love this city.

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  4. Don't Save The Monkeys7/28/09, 10:28 PM

    "THERE IS A BETTER CASE FOR PUTTING STREET CARS ON PROSPECT WHERE THEY WOULD REALLY SPARK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT!!!"

    Yes it would be of great benefit. It would provide the shooting gallery to get rid of all the thugs around there.
    Line 'em up, take 'em out. Once the roaches are gone someone might be willing to open a business that doesn't get jacked up all the time.

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  5. The wet dream continues but some people are catching on that the KCATA is a poorly led, corrupt and dishonest agency.

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