TKC NOTE: Here's a look at upcoming Kansas City roadblocks and detours that'll keep Downtown Kansas City traffic horrible in between water main breaks . . .
Notice of Private Utility Work
While official construction doesn’t begin until February, the public will see an increase in private utility work along Main Street and in the River Market area this month. This work is necessary to ensure access to the underground utilities after the track slab is constructed, and is being closely coordinated with KC Streetcar Constructors, the contract team building the streetcar starter line. All information about private utility work is provided by the utility.
20th – 19th & Main
Beginning January 6, various lane closures will occur between 19th and 20th Streets along Main Street while KCP&L completes duct bank work and relocates a manhole. This work should be completed byMarch 1.
19th & Main
Traffic is reduced to one lane in each direction while Missouri Gas Energy relocates manhole covers. This work should be completed by January 30.
AT&T is also rebuilding a manhole at the northwest corner of 19th & Main Streets. Anticipated completion February 7.
18th – south of Truman Road
Various lane closures will occur from the intersection of 18th Street and Main, north to Truman Road while Missouri Gas Energy installs a poly gas line on the east side of the street and completes tie-ins first at the intersection of 16th Street and Main Street, and then at the intersection of 17th Street and Main Street. Anticipated completion January 28.
17th & Main
KCP&L is modifying a vault at the southeast corner of 17th and Main. Anticipated completion February 14.
13th & Main
The right, northbound lane of Main Street will be closed from the southeast corner of 13th & Main approximately 200 feet south, while KCP&L relocates a manhole cover. Anticipated completionFebruary 28.
12th – 10th, on Main
Traffic is reduced to one lane in each direction from the 12th Street intersection through the 11th Street intersection while KCP&L completes duct bank and vault work. Anticipated completion February 28.
9th & Main
Various lanes are closed at the intersection of 9th Street and Main Street while KCP&L modifies a vault and installs duct bank. KCP&L will be working from the southwest corner to the southeast corner of the intersection. Anticipated completion February 7.
5th, Delaware to Grand
Level 3 (telecom) will be making small holes in the road to check existing utility line locations on 5th Street between Delaware and Grand. This work creates minimal traffic disruption. Anticipated completion January 31.
3rd & Grand
Traffic moving through the intersection of 3rd and Grand will be reduced to one lane each direction,January 7 through February 7, while KCP&L relocates a manhole cover at the southwest corner of the intersection.
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Fortunately, the Max can just re-route around construction-related road closures. It can do that because it's on wheels.
ReplyDeleteThanks to all utility customers in the area for picking up the cost of the utility work. In other areas the utilities were prevented from passing the cost along to all rate payers.
ReplyDeleteBetter and simple solution to the issue would be to just avoid the downtown area at all costs.
ReplyDeleteI think the time has come to look for a realtor and start looking to the southwest for a new location. College Blvd is pretty in the spring. But then Corporate Woods is nice with all the flowers, trees and shade with nice walking paths so the office can take walking meetings.
First the construction ruins traffic flow, then the folly trollies ruin traffic flow.
ReplyDeletethere never any traffic in KC. you guys are rubes.
ReplyDeleteAnd anyone who thinks College BLVD (where there actually is shitty traffic) is beautiful is a fucking retard. Good riddance. No one think huge vacant parking lots and overbuilt freeways and feeder roads are beautiful. Corporate Woods is more subsidized than downtown. Fucking idiot.
@8:41am
ReplyDeletePlease take it easier on yourself and back away from the punchbowl of urban futurist Koolaid.
Either downtown is an urban environment of density and activity, or, as you say, there's no traffic there. Pick a story.
Dowtown KC is a sterile human unfriendly place with very little activity, far fewer jobs than years ago, and is turning into a beadroom community of renters.
All that's fine, but it's not the second coming or some epochal transformation of how people in the metro are going to be living in the future.
When the millenials age through that part of life that revolves around artesinal cocktails, skinny jeans, red tennis shoes, latte's, and all the rest and come to grips with the fact that most of them, just like other generations, are not going to earn livings by being entrepreneurs or artists, the shallow make-believe world of a taxpayer-financed amusement park will lose its allure, the lease will be up, and there'll be lots of empty apartments.
There's no question that there's all kinds of inappropriate subsidizing of private projects all over the area. But you really need to do some research, analysis, and basic math before making such silly assertions.
Choo Choo....the Nigger train is coming to Waldo and Brookside. Next stop...Ward Parkway.
ReplyDeleteThese street car advocates are bigger nut cases than the council that's trying to push it down the taxpayers mouths
ReplyDeleteLike 99% of the local population, I don't get downtown often. Imagine my surprise when, today, I tried to drive through on my way to a meeting. Construction all over. And some of it is likely that god damned toy trolley thing. Who in god's name is paying for this? There is no federal money and there won't be for some time. What are these clowns paying the bills with?
ReplyDeleteguess you missed the fact that the real people who want condos and walkable real neighborhoods are the enorous and growing empty-nester. retired, boomer set.
ReplyDeleteyou can make fun of millenials and progress and good decision making and smart, fact based urban planning, but it just makes you look like you dont know what the fuck your talking about to anybody except the 16 wingnuts who comment on everythread here about the toy train boondoggle nigger train.
urban kcmo is 1/10th the regions population and 1/3 of its jobs in 1/1000th of its land mass.
Id say do the math but your to simple minded to read the writing on the wall...