SHOCK!!! MAYOR SLY ADMINISTRATION CUTS KANSAS CITY WORKERS AND PENSIONS TO PAY FOR TOY TRAIN STREETCAR!!!
Newspaper and a happy face on City Hall being gutted thanks to Mayor Sly's priorities or lack thereof: KC Council approves a new budget that includes pension reform, layoffs
FACT:
ReplyDeleteToy Train killed my Dad. In his sleep. MURDER!!!!!!
City Hall's like a wounded animal.
ReplyDeleteGood one, metaphor-man.
ReplyDeleteTell us about how CK sux epic fail boondoggle, now. No ones heard you yet.
Bet you NO assistant city managers at $160,000 were let go. Be NO one on the city manager of mayor staff was let go including non-resident contract employees.
ReplyDeleteThere's really less need all the time to describe what an epic fiasco the streetcar is turning out to be as more and more facts, especially financial facts, come to the public's attention.
ReplyDeleteIt's collapsing of its own weight, and the increasing shrillness of the "transit devotees and urban futurists" shows how desperate its survival has become.
House of cards.
The streetcar opposition hysterics pretty much have the shrill market cornered.
ReplyDelete"Streetcar wil kill children"
"Streetcars are too noises for homes on brookside blvd"
"Streetcars steal money from pension/buses/police"
"Streetcar let black people go anywhere"
"Streetcars will steal the streetcar trail"
"Streetcars are not real only buses are real"
Fucking rich dude. Shrill is your m.o.
9:26pm does a really good job of making 8:34's point.
ReplyDeleteDesperation.
Actually the pensions were fully funded, the first time in 10 years....
ReplyDeleteI bet it wont effect Fire Fighter jobs or pensions!
ReplyDelete5:36 - City hall is not a wounded animal its the hunter!!!! Well the mob is actually the hunter, the city government is just the ass pussy, and the citizens that buy into all this KC bullshit are the crabs!!!
ReplyDelete9:59; true. By repackaging debt and making cuts.
ReplyDeleteIt was actually a fairly responsible plan, but icing it by taking on massive new debt shows that we're not really making the responsible decisions that we should be.
The TDD doesn't raise the $ required to get the federal TIGER grant, so the city is going to use money collected from OUTSIDE the TDD to fill that gap. This should be ILLEGAL.
And once we get the grant, assuming everything goes according to plan, we're left with a mixed traffic streetcar serving areas already served by buses, and the KC taxpayer's responsibility is over $30M per mile.
It's not worth it. We could easily come up with a better plan that doesn't have to jump through hoops to meet federal requirements for TIGER grants, and we could build a much more extensive and beneficial public transit network for much less than $30M per mile.
9:32 = paid consultant
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