TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! CLAY CHASTAIN ON APPEAL AND PUSHING HIS NEW "GREEN" TRANSIT PLAN!!!

Take a look at the latest communiqué from Kansas City's favorite transit activist . . .

Clay Chastain's light rail petition before Appeals Court

Soon the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District of Missouri will rule on whether the City can block a vote on a valid transit petition initiative signed by thousands of Kansas City, Missouri voters.

Meanwhile...for fear the people might forget...here is the ballot language of a real, city-wide, and comprehensive mass transit system, proposed by the initiative petition, that Mayor Sly James, Councilman Russ Johnson, and other elitists don't want the people to vote on so they can impose...without competition...their self-serving Downtown Toy Train plan on the people instead:

INITIATIVE FOR A MORE GREEN, PROSPEROUS & TRANSIT-ORIENTED CITY:

In order to provide the people a more green, prosperous, and transit-oriented city shall the City of Kansas City, Missouri impose a capital improvement sales tax of 1/4% and a transportation sales tax of 1/8%, both not to exceed 25 years, beginning in 2011, to help fund these improvements to the city's transit system:


* Construct a 22-mile light rail spine from Waldo to a Park & Ride (P&R) lot south of Kansas City International Airport...with electric shuttle service to the terminals...including stops at or near Brookside, UMKC, the Plaza, Westport, Penn Valley Park & Liberty Memorial, Union Station, the Downtown Power & Light District on Main Street, City Market, NKC, Vivion Road, Line Creek Park, and Zona Rosa generally following the Country Club right-of-way, Broadway, Main St., Burlington, North Oak Trafficway, and the Interurban right-of-way:

* Construct a 19-mile commuter rail line from south Kansas City to Union Station including stops at or near a P&R lot at Blue Ridge and Hwy. 71, a P&R lot at Blue Ridge and I-470, the Bannister redevelopment site, Swope Park, and the Truman Sports Complex generally following existing rail corridors and Truman Rd.:

* Construct an 8.5 mile streetcar line from the Kansas City Zoo to Union Station including stops at or near Research Medical Center, Citadel redevelopment site, Cleaver Blvd., 39th St., Troost Ave., Hospital Hill, and Crown Center generally following the Prospect Ave., Linwood Blvd., and Gilham Rd. corridor:

* Construct an electric shuttle bus and bikeway feeder network that will connect to all rail stations with the bikeways seperated from traffic and using where possible the grassy medians of city boulevards; and also use the tax proceeds to finance bonds and secure federal matching funds.
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