KANSAS CITY STOPLIGHT REMOVAL FIGHT CONTINUES!!! NEW LINE FROM CITY HALL: STOPLIGHTS ARE DANGEROUS!!!
Despite the best efforts of a couple of City Council members . . . Kansas City stoplight removal is still going forward at ludicrous speed.
A bit of pushback from residents that's going mostly unheard . . .
Public argues against traffic light changes - City plans to replace outdated lights with stop signs in some places
And now . . .
CHECK OUT A BIT OF EPIC CITY HALL BLAME SHIFTING WHICH ATTEMPTS TO TELL RESIDENTS THAT STOPLIGHTS ARE DANGEROUS DESPITE A GREAT DEAL OF 1ST HAND EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY!!!
"Sean Demory of Kansas City Public Works said traffic engineers are going intersection by intersection to figure out whether a light or sign is a better fit. He said many intersections have outdated equipment and that low traffic and low pedestrian numbers don't justify a light.
Demory said unwarranted lights can pose a danger to people who are trying to cross the street."
The reality here is that this isn't a safety issue . . . In fact, this is Kansas City looking to cut costs in neighborhoods and showing that priorities @ 12th and Oak put toy train streetcars over public safety at almost every stop.
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Calm down Tony or one of his sock puppets. This is a serious issue but it won't be settled on this shitty blog.
Tony, my experience is that traffic along Paseo is moving much much better between Cleaver and 63rd because of the new stop signs at 55th and 59th. I've also noted the same along Meyer, with the signs at Oak and Main, though the city might consider making them two-way stops and make traffic flow even better.
Do you know of any specific intersections where stop signs have increased accidents with the data to back that up?
Didn't think so. You'd just rather bitch about any change.
SHUT UP SEAN!
Next we will be told that sewer services are dangerous and unwarranted, water mains are too tricky and dangerous to fix, and that compost piles for ALL of our garbage must be made in our yards.
The city is only taking "car count" into account, and ignoring what dangers these four way stops present to foot traffic.
I have yet to hear a city official respond to the issue of foot traffic at these intersections.
So explain to me how foot traffic becomes more dangerous with four-way stop signs instead of stop lights, and which particular intersection(s) you are talking about?
All of them?
Then we should put stoplights on every block and every interesection.
Didn't your mommy teach you to look both ways before crossing the street?
I thought Jermaine Reed saved the day on this already! FAIL!
8:16, if you are going to judge the dangers to pedestrian at any intersection, wouldn't "car count" be a rather important thing to know?
If stop lights are more dangerous than stop signs, change them all out- starting with the 3 intersections in the Cleaver Death Trap on 71 South.
I have to drive Paseo all the time. Takes 5 minutes less to go 3 miles after stop signs put in. Read about it tards. Stop signs have more traffic throughput than stop lights, and they're cheaper. Deal with it.
6:11, the question isn't whether stop signs were safer, and nobody actually claimed they were.
The question is whether stop lights are still necessary at every intersection where they were installed 50 or 60 years ago.
And if they are deemed necessary, then ALL the obsolete lights on a pole have got to go in favor of crossbar lights.
And at a cost of MILLIONS.
But never mind that. We're talking about what YOU want.
6:26, you ever get caught in gridlock on 59th Street behind cars trying to turn left onto Paseo?
It doesn't happen any more.
You really think the traffic counts are anywhere near similar between, say, U.S. 71 at Gregory and 27th and Brooklyn?
Good lordy, that light was installed when there was a stadium there.
Think traffic that intersection has become a wee bit lighter in the past 50 years?
As usual Brookside gets all the attention. Sean needs to get downtown and removed the dozen of traffic lights that are not needed. You sit at lights for 5 minutes with no cars traveling the other way.
This is a no brainer. For every light there should be a red light cam and the lights will pay for themselves in no time.
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