TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! ONGOING HARSH TIMES FOR THE FAILING KANSAS CITY STRIP TROLLEY REVEAL TRAGIC LOCAL TRANSIT MISCALCULATION!!!
Once again Kansas City has seemingly miscalculated the degree to which locals will utilize mass transit.
To wit . . .
KICK-ASS TKC TIPSTERS TELL US OF ONGOING HARSH TIMES FOR THE KC STRIP TROLLEY!!!
Witness . . .
A VERY RECENT TOP LEVEL KC STRIP MANAGEMENT DISMISSAL IS MAKING WAVES AMONG THE LOCAL TRANSIT TALKERS!!!
Even worse . . .
AS THE KC STRIP TROLLEY CONTINUES TO LOSE MONEY THERE IS TALK ABOUT SHUTTING DOWN ONE OF THE NIGHTS THE LOCAL PARTY TRANSPORT SYSTEM SERVES LOCAL DRINKERS . . . PROBABLY FRIDAY!!!
Face it . . . Every midtown Kansas City denizens can clearly see that the trolleys are mostly empty and the effort never really enjoyed widespread popularity despite the fact that Westport Bar Biz Impresario Bill Nigro is out on the street every weekend pushing this thing as hard as possible.
But it's a lost cause . . .
This is frightening because . . .
IF KANSAS CITY CAN'T EVEN SUPPORT NIGHTLIFE PUBLIC TRANSIT AT A DEEPLY DISCOUNTED RATE THAT HITS ALL OF THIS TOWN'S MOST POPULAR PARTY DISTRICTS . . . THAN HOPE THAT A FIXED RAIL TOY TRAIN MINI-LINE WILL GARNER SUCCESS IS SIMPLY MISGUIDED!!!
Kansas City has thrown $50 grand at this experiment and there is a plan to ask KCMO for even more cash . . . Because throwing good money after bad is a local tradition.
Still . . .
The most frightening aspect of this failed experiment is that the failure of the KC Strip hasn't taught local government a thing. Local elected leaders are still using failed "tin-cup urbanisim" logic to justify a DAUNTING STREETCAR EXPENSE that doesn't even have the same advantages as this failed trolley line.
We'll have more on this story and the financial implications VERY SOON . . . So watch for it.
In the final analysis . . .
We're witnessing the last days of the KC Strip and yet another bit of evidence that mass transit doesn't work in Kansas City when people have more convenient options.
DEVELOPING . . .
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18 Comments:
TKC, have you even went for one ride on the trolley?
It's not so bad if you don't run into a bachelorette party.
Hell, they should be able to get a $15,000. GIFT, from the City Mangler...Just ask him!!
It is empty every time I see it.
That'll get things hopping.
More $ for Nigro and Bill George. NO! It's hard to imagine the Council will do that but this city sucks so they might.
To much shit, not enough money to buy all of it.
Its time to abandon the train and withdraw funding for the bar buses.
The old story,when you're digging yourself into a hole, stop digging.
I forgot to mention, that was a good post, Tony.
Maybe them there trolleys would be ridden more if they didn't look like soot stained pieces of shit.
Sad. And even sadder is the fact that KC is so anxious to to spend over a $100M on a streetcar.
So exactly who is going to ride the new streetcar? After the first free ride for novelty sake, it really doesn't go anywhere.
Is there any way to strop the train wreck before it happens?
Tony is sexy as FUCK.
KC Strip Trolley & Toy Train project are to Kansas City
----AS----
Bright red lipstick is to an aging streetwalker.
an inducement to go where you shouldn't venture.
You think this is bad tkc, jus wait until u get the bill for the downtown hotel!
Bill George ploy siphons City money again! When will the clowncil ever learn?
No more money for the Bills and their brood!
They're just as bad as the hoodrats.
Bring back strip clubs with hands on lap dances. One each in River Market, Downtown, Crossroads, Midtown, Westport, Plaza, Brookside and Waldo....let girls dance on the trolley's....then and only then will the KC Strip fulfill its' promise.
3:28 RIGHT ON. Get those girls off welfare and back to striping and Matt Bartle can get fucked!
Of course the KC strip and the streetcar project have nothing in common and are totally unrelated, but whatever. Facts and blogs go together like milk and oil.
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