TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY TRANSIT ACTIVIST CLAY CHASTAIN REVEALS HIS NEW PLAN FOR UNION STATION AND LIGHT RAIL!!!
A much better contest than last night's Kansas City corporate football slapfight is that battle transit activist Clay Chastain has been waging against City Hall and local civic for years.
Clay had the vision to see that voters throughout the city would endorse his light rail plan and so far he's the only dude in/or out of KC who can make that claim.
Now, Mr. Chastain has his sights set on Union Station once again.
To wit . . .
CHECK THE CLAY CHASTAIN PLAN FOR A NEW LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT COMPLEX @ UNION STATION!!!
Most of the 1st drawing isn't so bad . . .
Here are the deets from, like it or not, the guy who has won the most transit votes and voter support in Kansas City. Check it:
Light rail campaign proposes Union Station as KC's new regional transportation hub
The Light Rail Campaign (www.kc4lightrail.com) proposes putting the soul back into Union Station as Kansas City's new regional multimodal transportation center (see attached designs).
Electrical engineer Clay Chastain shows how Union Station's underused north wing could be transformed into a bustling regional transportation center providing convenient connections between light rail trains, commuter rail trains, Amtrak trains, streetcars, buses, and an expanded bikeway network.
Union Station (it was always meant to be more than just digs and a showplace for the wealthy) belongs to the people. Union Station must have (in-part) a significant public reuse since local and national taxpayers contributed greatly to its restoration.
Union Station now becomes a many splendored thing...a great facilitator of transportation, a majestic gathering place for the people, and a monumental icon anchoring our city's future.
Clay Chastain
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Developing . . .
All city hall plans must the russ seal of approval.
ReplyDeleteMakes no difference what the plan is, it isn't affordable at todays prices or for the small numbers it will move.
ReplyDeleteyou sure are bitter about a football game, I hope my doctor will let my salt intake go up a little because your tears are like wine to me
ReplyDeleteWe can ride us of the slime douche bad Obama how do we rid ourself of Clay
ReplyDeleteCompared to that idiot James and his band of morons, Chastain is beginning to sound a bit sensible.. Kinda scary, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteWE DON'T WANT THIS. GO AWAY.
ReplyDeleteGo away Rail Demon... and take the Fat Bowtie with you!
ReplyDeleteI'm voting for it. For once I'd like my tax dollars to go to something other than your bastard children and the mayor's pet projects.
ReplyDeleteYou will get many new taxes too pay for it !
DeleteClay's vision on a cocktail napkin.
ReplyDelete$50 million inferior 2 mile city plan vs. Clay's 3 cent cocktail napkin vision.
DeleteI think it needs to be built with an erector set and legos so we can see how cool it will be.
ReplyDeleteSo will Russ Johnson resurface?
ReplyDeleteWill Sly try again?
Losers unite and push this rail line through.
Just sit quiet and wait until Sly has been reelected and then go for the gold.
Losers unite smash the airport, dig holes in Main Street. Losers unite put rail lines where ever the developers want. LOSERS LOSERS
Go take a look at Sacramento and their
ReplyDeleterail system. Runs slower than the autos, ties up traffic to make its turns. Actually stops eight lanes of autos while it pulls three cars through town. I bet they tear it out when the new stadium is built. Maybe we can buy their old used equipment.
Tony YOU should be ashamed. Getting Clay's hopes up by putting out his latest "engineered drawings" and being nice to him. You are actually pulling wings off of a helpless moth.
ReplyDeleteShame on You.
I'm waiting for Derron Black to propose building a giant plastic dome over the entire city and funding it all with car washes on the weekends.
ReplyDeleteCome on, KCMO!
World class creativity and innovation.
The problem is that the City, on the very slim chance that this will pass in November, will use the tax funding for the goddamned stupid streetcar boondoggle.
ReplyDeleteJust more dreaming without an effective way to present it to the voters, and without effective implementation and an operational plan.
This is nothing more than a cheezy ploy to get Rice-A-Roni to open up a plant in Kansas City.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the new Epcot Center to me
ReplyDeleteHas anyone said boondoggle yet? I have to say it every time anyone talks about transit! It's really effective and important to say it!
ReplyDeletehahah boondoggle!
So CLEVARKC!
I guess what I've never understood about MENSA is the need to join a whole organization devoted to telling everyone how smart you are.
DeleteIt's Mensa boy hurf durfing again like the fool he is ^^^^^ Shut the fuck up. The streetcar is a boondoggle by definition. There should be a picture in the dictionary of the KC Streetcar next to "boondoggle."
ReplyDeleteA boondoggle is a project that is considered a useless waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to extraneous policy motivations.
ReplyDeleteYep, sound like the Streetcar!
You lost, internet lawyer/urban planner boy. Get over it. (And get used to it, cause its 55% yes in the urban core, ven after all your lies, misdirection, strawman argument, frivolous lawsuits, race baiting, name calling and eat-side payola).
ReplyDeleteYawn. Again.
ReplyDeleteI bet hurf durfing internet lawyer boy is really just a freshman architect student at UMKC. About the same maturity.
ReplyDeletenew record for a stupid plan that doesn't coordinate with any other plan in the works...
ReplyDeletego pull up Bing maps birds eye view, it lets one spin around with a helicopter height view
he would actually mandate that one pershing lose part of their parking. I'm sure that's realistic...
also notice how it has to fit two tracks there. looks doable if expensive
he wants to force bike share out and return the loop on the east end to busses. so a bunch of busses would need to fix into that tiny loop. oh, and the KCATA is already looking at their major stop being on Pershing, not Main
on the west side of union station it would force change the plan to connect the garage to the front entrance so you don't have to go all the way around to the back side
AND require taking out part of union station that actually makes money, the event space.
it also would require spending billions to add another track to the trench. there's a reason that the River Market is the best choice for commuter rail
All light rails do anywhere is transport niggers.
ReplyDeleteIt was formed for losers so they could get together and brag about their test scores since many of them have little else to show for their high IQs.
ReplyDeleteSorry Clay you can not have my vote. If your measure passes, it will just give Sly money to steal from for his streetcar.
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