TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY TOY TRAIN STREETCAR CONSTRUCTION DISASTER!!!



This week, Kansas City toy train streetcar construction kicks into high gear and denizens of the loop will be beset by a horrific array of detours and roadblocks.

To wit . . .

DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY TOY TRAIN STREETCAR CONSTRUCTION IS NOW REACHING NIGHTMARISH PROPORTIONS AND IS SOON TO BRING ANY SIGNIFICANT TRAFFIC TO A NEAR HALT!!!

Check the EXCLUSIVE QUOTE FROM A KICK-ASS TKC TIPSTER:

"I am pretty sure the streetcar people said there would be minimum construction disruption, because their construction activity would be done a block at a time. You would have to look hard at their list to find a block downtown that not torn up because of their trolley!"

Seriously, anybody who has tried to run any kind of errand has Downtown during the day is out of luck if they have to cross West to East . . .

Furthermore . . .

COMPLAINTS ARE NOW STARTING TO EMERGE THAT THIS CONSTRUCTION PROCESS HAS BEEN POORLY PLANNED AND RISKS DAMAGING LOCAL BIZ DEPENDENT ON MIDDAY TRAFFIC!!!

We're always concerned about lunch and it seems that even the P&L District is starting to groan about this haphazard process . . .



Here's a LITANY of the current Downtown construction kicking off the week that's ANYTHING BUT MINIMAL and has served to SERIOUSLY IMPEDE DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY TRAFFIC AND BIZ . . .


Delaware Street Work
Two new activities on Delaware Street next week: Prep work for track construction starts on the Delaware Street Bridge over I-70. This will involve closing half of the bridge at a time. Suggested detours for the northbound and southbound closures can be viewed here.

Delaware will be closed from Independence to 5th starting Wednesday, September 3 at 7am until Thursday, September 4 at 7pm to install the new water main.

Lining Sewer Pipes
Crews will start lining sewer pipes next week. While this process has a minimal impact on traffic, you may notice a "chemical-like" smell when you are in the area of this work. This smell occurs when the pipe liner is curing and is not harmful to people or animals. This work will start in the Crossroads on September 2.

More deets of most of Downtown Kansas City rendered INACCESSIBLE by this  construction nightmare...

Pershing to 20th
The bridge deck will be poured later this week.

20th to 17th
Various lane drops due to water and sewer work. Most sidewalks are open.
Foundation work for the power poles continues. This work mainly effects sidewalks and curb running lanes.

17th to I-670 (Truman Road)
Sewer work from 17th to 16th through September. Foundations are being dug and set for the power poles. This work mainly effects sidewalks and curb-running lanes.

Truman Road South (I-670) to 12th
The City of Kansas City, MO is modifying a KCP&L vault at Truman Road, north and Main Street. The work is being performed by Black & McDonald.

12th to 10th
Petticoat Closure: Petticoat is closed from Walnut to Main for a period of four weeks, while multiple private utilities complete work. Sidewalks will remain open. The crosswalk at Main and Petticoat (east side) will be closed. Anticipated completion: September 9.

Main, 11th to 12th: 
Various lane drops will occur while KCP&L, Time Warner Cable, and AT&T complete work in this segment. Work is anticipated to continue into October.

10th to 7th
10th & Main: Private utility work will be shifting to the southeast corner after September 8. 10th, Baltimore to Main, remains one-way eastbound until the private utility work at all four corners of the intersection has been completed. Anticipated completion: December 2014.

7th to Independence
Prep work for track construction starts on Sept. 2 on the Delaware Street Bridge over I-70. This will involve closing half of the bridge at a time. Crews will be closing half of the bridge at a time during the following anticipated time frames.
-- Sept. 2-3: Southbound lanes closed
-- Sept. 4-5: Northbound lanes closed

5th, Delaware to Grand
Various lane closures and street parking restrictions due to water/sewer work.

Grand, 5th to 3rd
Water work continues at 5th and Grand, as well as east on 5th. Traffic restrictions apply and lane drops exist.

3rd, Delaware to Grand
Due to water and sewer work, 3rd between Delaware and Main is open to eastbound traffic only during the week days. Westbound traffic on 3rd is being rerouted north on Main, west on 2nd, south on Delaware. There is no on-street parking on 3rd between Delaware and Grand.

Delaware, Independence to 3rd
Independence to 5th: Starting Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 7am until Thursday, Sept. 4 at 7pm this section will be closed. Local access only from Independence. Crews will work around-the-clock to install the new water main.

Grand to Vehicle Maintenance Facility
Foundation piers are being drilled for the "Singleton Yard" vehicle maintenance facility.

Check the construction map for a happy news assessment of this hot mess.

Developing . . .

Comments

  1. Better title, TKC, Downtown KC belabored by Streetcar.

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  2. Top proponents were claiming it would only restrict access for two weeks per block. Um, did you go to the River Market at all this summer? Road closures practically all summer long.

    This is to be expected, I suppose, but that's not what we were told. What else were we not told? Can't wait to find out.

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  3. Really? who's complaining? Got any names?

    Didn't fucking think so.

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  4. What'd you expect when KCMO has a shitty director of public works and city engineer.

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  5. Don't worry Staubio and Davey will reimburse businesses for all their losses and replace the shuttered ones with kale cupcake stores.

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  6. So what I just quit going down town except to work and home,

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  7. New Streetcar not getting riders
    Van knocks streetcar off rails
    Streetcars getting stuck in traffic
    Streetcar construction frustrates

    etc, etc.

    You never hear about this stuff from the Streetcar Robber Barons trying to ram this farce down taxpayers throats across the country.

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  8. Oh Golly, the trolley folly!

    Adios Sly. Hello Dan.

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  9. Newcastle! Are we going to be like Springfield?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZBPoRwog00&feature=youtu.be

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  10. 3:30 the return of the WILDMAN.

    Too cool for the scene man, but just keeps coming back.

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  11. In Russ We Trust9/1/14, 4:48 PM

    What a nightmare, I want my 1% etax back.

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  12. Should have been branded - The Downtown $treetcar Money Pit

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  13. A monorail system would been a better choice than a streetcar for Downtown. The construction costs for a light monorail are similar to streetcars, but operational costs would be roughly 70% less.

    To late now. Thanks idiots.

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  14. All this shit is designed to sell expensive real estate. Like many new North American streetcars, the point was solely to achieve a development outcome and nobody much cared whether it would be useful as transit, especially decades into the future.

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  15. They all go through the predictable phases of exuberance, delight, irritation, and boredom, and they all finally arrive at the point of being more of an obstacle than a service.

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  16. Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!

    The Victimization/Entitlement Complex is strong in you sniveling tear-heaps of anti-men.

    Straight bitch shit here.

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  17. Oh ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya everyone is going to love it! You just and see! Oh ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya

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  18. Anti-men who would DARE question the wisdom of building a billion dollar train with no real benefit!!

    I scoff at these lesser men!!

    Real men cast headlong into a future of economic bondage based on whims, notions and hunches!!!

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  19. omg! we're all going to die! thank you Tony for this PSA. Maybe others will be able to avoid this calamity!

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  20. End of the World. Book of Revelations.

    Anything positive, ever, Pedro?

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  21. Some other things that we don't know:
    1. What the ACTUAL total cost of the Phase I Main Street line really is.
    2. Why the original TDD was designed to get enough votes to launch the entire city on a multi-hundred million dollar project, and not to generate enough money to pay for Phase I.
    3. How many decades will the bonds run for and how many tens of millions will they cost each of those years.
    4. How could serious adults ever allow themselves be stampeded into such a huge long-term expense in support of a 3-5 year fad?

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    1. Cut/paste/repeat

      Still bullshit

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  22. its all bullshit!

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  23. The construction mess is the least of the issues with this BS financial drain.

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  24. Deal with it bitches. That street car mock up looks sexay as fuck. Can't wait to "ride KC". Peace out motherfuckers!!

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  25. You'll be able to "walk KC" faster than that thing will move.

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  26. I attended an early meeting at Antoine's on Main with Mayor Sly and his flunkies about the trolley. Someone asked about construction problems. They said the plan was to dig a trench, line it in concrete on one side of the route and give utility companies two weeks to move their lines. Someone laughed and said good luck getting them to return you call in two weeks.

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  27. Waaaaaaahhhhh!

    I had to drive AROUND to get where I wanted to go. 2 WHOLE blocks, guys!!!!


    This is just like slavery!

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  28. Hi Pat Klein. Good to see you here

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  29. Has Caleb hit it big in Brooklyn yet? We need for him to come back to KC and help us pay for the free streetcar with all the money he's made from his organic kale smoothie start up.
    If not, we'll just have to keep stealing the cash from PIAC funds. No neighborhood street or sidewalk repair on the horizon. Not even any money to tear down all the houses Sly promised.
    Thanks for playing.

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  30. Where are all the ideas to make KCMO great now that the naysayers have won the streetcar election? Where is the vision?

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  31. Those weren't ideas, 12:13. Those were developers' wet dreams.

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  32. What's a 2 nd teir city?

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  33. At KCPT viewers, we call everyone who disagreea with us as Pat Klein or Mensa Boy.

    If nothing else, we are as deep as a wading pool.

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  34. When is someone in media gonna finally ask the question that everyone wants an answer to.

    How much money did Sly and his cronies receive to get the Toy Train plan up and running?

    Other than someone holding his family hostage, there's no credible reason for it to happen. It has to be either bribes or kickbacks. They went to so much trouble to rig this their way from the start. Money is the only logical reason for what they did, because the plan and costs of this boondoggle make absolutely no sense. None at all.

    Look at all of their unpaid volunteers/supporters/streetcar pimps. Almost all of them somehow were able to secure a job with one of the companies involved after the rigged vote passed.

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  35. Wait until it's finished. That's when you'll see all the developer's get nice, comfy tax breaks and other forms of corporate welfare from the city to build condo's and other shit most folks can't afford.

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  36. Labor Day weekend 2014 , I cruised around downtown KCMO from the North End all the way down to the plaza taking Grand and some other streets cris crossing, and I'll tell ya 1st hand, its an utter Disaster and quite a joke, between the street car mess construction and the broken water main construction, it makes ya wonder where are their Priorties really ????

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