TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! CHECK THE EFFORT TO LOOT KANSAS CITY NEIGHBORHOODS IN ORDER TO FINANCE THE DOWNTOWN TOY TRAIN!!!
The despicable effort to fund Kansas City's Downtown Streetcar proposal continues despite the rejection this town's silly proposal.
With a scaled back design and a few more tricks . . .. Look for corporate-backed lobbyists and a few desperate politicos to pounce on the results on an election they FIXED for the project. The "Special Taxing District" used by Downtown Streetcar Advocates is barely legal and one of the most underhanded ploys Kansas City has even seen.
It gets worse . . .
THE LATEST EFFORT TO FINANCE THE DOWNTOWN TOY TRAIN WILL LOOT MONEY INTENDED FOR KANSAS CITY'S NEIGHBORHOODS!!!
TKC already reported a plan to push forward the toy train without fed cash last month.
There's a bit of mistaken information that Jackson County might kick in some cash for Mayor Sly's Toy Train . . . Anybody with a modicum of local political knowledge knows that's not going to happen for A LOT of reasons.
The ongoing effort to raid NTDF money might have Toy Train motivations according to AWESOME TKC TIPSTERS . . .
PIAC has been pushing Toy Train hype and will continue to do so . . . Despite the fact that paying for a Toy Train tourist attraction can't really be described as an "improvement" for anybody but ritzy engineering firms.
All things considered . . . The Downtown Toy Train could be Mayor Sly's biggest mistake:
Kansas City has rejected these toy train schemes time and time again . . . The fact that Mayor Sly thinks the force of his own will and a series of silly schemes will change this pattern reveals that he overestimates his own influence and his priorities are off track.
DEVELOPING . . .
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You forgot the "crowd sourcing"
Bwahahahahahahahha!
Sly, figure out a way to cancel this boondoggle and save face. I'm tired of reading about on TKC.
Maybe he should hire kcpd officers. They know how to steal from the public, prostitutes, and their mothers.
He had better start caring about sewers. Somebody needs to FORBID KCMO from funding anything until the basic problem of flushing gets fixed.
Same old "which shell is the pea under?" KCMO insider games. Just remember this kind of crap when Sly and the council PROMISES that if you pass another tax increase, just this once, they'll use the money for what they said they would.
Next time!
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
We can do better. This is a boondoggle.
Light rail in downtown is mute unless someone brings in a lot more jobs there to make it worthwhile. That being said, I can just picture the cars overflowing with douche bag hipsters on First Fridays in the summers. *sigh*
why in the hell dont they just use the money for the so called train and apply it to the water and sewer replacement just maybe the rates wont go up 100 per cent and the elderly will be able to pay for the water bills.
Well you see thats the problem 7:47 there really isn't any money sitting around to be used on the train either. So it's all fail.
Bout fucking time the leadership in this city lead a little. Snivelers, whiners and suburban cry-babys are scared of any progress.
This city desperately needs to invest in transit infrastructure if its wants to compete. The streetcar is a baby step in the right direction after decades of shirking, backpedaling and running away from smart city planning.
And it will pass. Downtown KC is well ahead of many other midwest downtowns, is livelier than most of our peers and is the only segment of the city which is growing. The streetcar is the best thing this city has elected (democratically) to do in decades.
@2:56pm
Actually the population of KCMO south of the river is DECLINING. The growth is in the northland.
And KCMO can stand only so much of what appears to be "progress". When downtown consists mostly of taxpayer-subsidized office buildings, sports arenas, and government offices, most of which either continue to COST tax money or don't pay any taxes in the first place, the KCMO municipal government continues to lose ground frinancially.
And as for being lively, go downtown most any time other than when there's some special event and there's no activity at all. And only 10% of the jobs in the metro are downtown.
If you want to play urban pioneer that's fine, but please understand that most of the residents of KCMO don't live downtown and rightly expect that the city will provide some basic services like public safety, sewers, and decent streets.
It's a municipal government, not an amateur real estate development operation.
Downtown is the fastest growing part of the city. Read the census.
The entire development of the northland is taxpayer subsidized.
And the population of the midtown plaza corridor is stable, with minimal losses mostly due to smaller family size per househould. Only the eastside and the southland suburban slums like Ruskin are losing population. So is inner Johnson County. The locust-like suburban mindset of consumption and abandonment is fading fast. Most of the central corridor of the city is more vibrant than its been in decades, and transit infrastructure will solidify that success.
All that development in JoCo is subsidized too. The difference is, they subsidize developing good farmland into huge, mostly vacant parking lots and isolated office buildings than are obsolete in 10 years. KC invests in its center city.
Even if only 10% of metro jobs are in the CBD, its still the highest concentration of jobs in any 2 square mile area of the city, with the most history worth preserving, the most cultural and tourist destinations, the best bones for building functional a functional urban center, and the most momentum.
Sorry you overpaid for an already obsolete and poorly constructed reverse 1.5 story ranch on the fringes of the city and feel you have to justify that purchase by naysaying, but the city is THE place to be right now, and for the foreseeable future.
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