Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders once again shares his dream for mass transit that's never gonna happen.
Let's remember:
The world's most accurate encyclopedia tells us: "In the computer industry, vaporware is a product, typically computer hardware or software, that is announced to the general public but is never actually manufactured nor officially cancelled."
Accordingly . . .
KC Biz Journal: "A mass transit system in Jackson County would attract young and intelligent talent to the area and bring a return of $3 for every $1 invested, County Executive Mike Sanders said in his State of the County Address."
And that brings us to the main point:
JACKSON COUNTY EXEC MIKE SANDERS HAS BEEN TOUTING HIS TOY TRAIN FOR ALMOST A YEAR WITHOUT ANY SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS!!!
That doesn't stop him from running through all of the familiar pleasantries to which Kansas City voters have become accustomed.
"Sanders said statistics indicate that millennials don't rely on personal vehicles for transportation, preferring mass transit, the report says. And millennials will play a key role in the metro area's growth as an employment center."
At the very least, the Jackson County executive deserves credit for not wasting much cash on this effort or ramming it down the throat of voters. Grandiose toy train schemes are always inspiring but seldom turn into viable Kansas City modes of transit. The County Exec is smart to cut out the expensive middle-step and just gain political capital for talking about trains as everyone politely applauds.
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My BS meter is going crazy.
ReplyDeleteSanders must have gotten this out of a recent City Lab article. It's all bullshit of course but it goes to show you where these "CK leaders" get some of their idiotic ideas from.
ReplyDeleteMillennial's use transit cause they either can't afford to enjoy and maintain a nice vehicle, or they want zero responsibility so they can waste time smoking weed, drinking Pabst blue ribbon and scratching washboards while blowing balloons on some street corner hoping someone is noticing what an incredible contribution they are making to humanity.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't "vaporware" accurately describe your Gloria Squitiro book?
ReplyDeleteKnow the difference between a used car salesman and Mike Sanders?
ReplyDeleteThe used car salesman knows when he's lying.
True dat.
DeleteUh huh keep repeating the propaganda and try again.
ReplyDeleteWhat is it about NO Sanders and Russ Johnson's "I know 50 people" don't understand?
ReplyDeleteMike Sanders spent over $300,000 on this so called train.
ReplyDeleteRailway executives have repeatedly told him to sit down and shut the fuck up.
Most Eastern Jack mayors have told him to shut the fuck up.
The few remaining Sanders (5 total) political supporters have suggested that he shut the fuck up.
County staff quietly tell each other that they wished Mike Sanders would sit down and shut the fuck up.
Mike! Sit down and Shut the fuck up.
My girlfriend Sharon says that Sanders is a closet queen who wears a wig. You cannot trust a guy who cannot admit to who he is. No Trains!
ReplyDeleteTime to demand an audit on this whole Streetcar Boondoggle.
ReplyDeleteThe City said it was going to do an accounting on August 8 and hasn't delivered jack squat.
Lying is standard routine for this crew. Time to end it.
Write in campaign against Sanders.
ReplyDeleteYes we all have excuses for not performing don't we Mike.
ReplyDeleteWhen you guys running this town into the ground going to stop this incessant bullshitting routine?
ReplyDeletePeople are tired of it.
Georgia deserves better
ReplyDeleteJust another reason the only time you want to come to KC, er I mean CK is if your making an emergency landing at KCI and can quickly board another flight to continue on to your destination.
ReplyDeleteSo this guy is basically saying our kids here aren't good enough, smart enough, and not worth investing in to cultivate and develop their talents and abilities to their full potential?
ReplyDeleteWell FUCK HIM!
Hope downtown folk enjoy paying for their $125 Million Boondoggle they said back in 2012 they probably won't use but will vote for anyway.
ReplyDeleteEspecially the 318 people who "voted" in favor of the original downtown transportation development district.
And Mensa boy will hurf durf in three...two... .
ReplyDeleteNow just how intelligent would a young person be if they were attracted to a city because of a trolley car? Sanders you are a dick weed.
ReplyDeleteYou guys are unintentionally hilarious.
ReplyDeleteCK is like the last place left where the hillbillies are scared of public transit en existing. It's like watching puppies react to seeing themselves in a mirror.
KC, where 25 years behind the times is just too damn newfangled!
25 years behind? No sir, that is the technology and eco-devo bullshit of toy trains. Toy train myths have been exposed. You need to get one of them new-fangled magazine articles dispelling the lies of pouring money into toy trains. We need REAL MASS TRANSIT not a dildo train.
ReplyDelete6:45 = Hurf Durfer before he is too drunk to start babbling on incoherently. You LOST - so go fuck yourself.
ReplyDeleteLet's vote SAnders out he wants a bigger state job but who wants a political used car salesman look at who he puts in High Paying jobs in the county recreation she is nothing but show, making a job for Cathy Jolley the list goes on and by the way what does Calvin and Lisa do work on his next race at County payrol
ReplyDeleteUndocumented workers bring a better return than 3 to 1
ReplyDeleteOn November the 4th vote Sanders out of office!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bricestewart.com
I'm thinking Sanders is a clueless gas bag.
ReplyDeleteDon't vote against anyone, if you don't feel you have a choice; vote for yourself. Write in your own name, if enough of us do it, maybe the candidates will start listening to us instead of feeling that since they have the most money they are pre-ordained.
ReplyDeleteI know that I am painting them all with a pretty broad brush. But it's past time to start throwing the baby out with the bathwater. They owe us a lot and they need reminding. Make them work for their gravy train.
Ain't the Internet swell!
KC = backwards cow town. Everyone in the rest of the country knows it. That's why your METRO economy is tanking, your METRO growth is non existent, everyone with a brain and a future moves to somewhere nice while you pitiful knuckle dragging droolers howl and whine about how scary and bad development or transit is. Its hilarious.
ReplyDeleteWhen you come here and see the development its like a fucking time warp to 1982. Lots of fake stucco, 4 garage houses, cul-de-sacs and strip malls, a big downut hole of dying older suburbs and a hollowed out place that used to be something real.
We don't even build the kind of crap in our cheap-o suburbs anymore that you guys build in your "nicest" former-farm-field sprawl, much less in our actual city. You morons are building schlock tha no one has wanted for 15 years and freaking out about building anything that people actually want.
Change your name to Kansas Town. Your diluting the brand, hillbillies.