TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! CONGRESSMAN CLEAVER'S OFFICE TOUTS $1.2 MILLION FOR KANSAS CITY PUBLIC TRANSIT!!!
TKC NOTE: Here's a notice from Congressman Cleaver's office touting his ability to bring home cash for local projects . . .
Congressman Cleaver Announces 1.2 Million Dollar Boost To Kansas City’s Transportation Infrastructure
Yesterday, the Department of Transportation awarded 1.2 million dollars to the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) to fund KC Workforce Connex, a critical community engagement effort and study to improve job-housing connectivity via public transit.
“Red or blue, urban or rural - we all rely on transportation infrastructure," stated Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, II. Ensuring economic prosperity is of paramount importance. It’s not a Republican or Democratic goal, but one we all share, and one where we must succeed. This effort is part of our journey in Missouri’s Fifth District to build a better, balanced, stronger, and more sustainable transportation system.”
According to MARC, the recipient of the grant, at its core KC Workforce Connex is centered on improving job access and access to opportunity for all area residents. The initiative, led by the region’s Transit Coordinating Council, will lay the foundation necessary to fully understand our current job access challenges, bring together regional partnerships necessary develop common‐sense solutions, and set the table for action with the goal of doubling the number of regional jobs accessible by transit in the next 10 years. At conclusion the initiative will have:
1. Developed a plan for extending the region’s corridor and transit service framework to connect and link underserved and emerging job markets.
2. Developed specific east‐west, bi‐state, transit service strategies that will better connect our region and help bridge current service, jurisdictional boundaries, and job access gaps.
3. Developed a holistic job‐access strategy that goes beyond public transit to include a range of transportation alternatives.
4. Outlined supportive land use and housing policies and local actions necessary to improve jobs/housing balance and better position future growth to be serviceable by public transportation.
Emanuel Cleaver, II is the U.S. Representative for Missouri’s Fifth Congressional District, which includes Kansas City, Independence, Lee's Summit, Raytown, Grandview, Sugar Creek, Blue Springs, Grain Valley, Oak Grove, North Kansas City, Gladstone, Claycomo, and all of Ray, Lafayette, and Saline Counties. He is a member of the exclusive House Financial Services Committee and also serves as a Senior Whip of the Democratic Caucus.
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No streetcar and no light rail.
ReplyDeleteHave they been doing nothing for forty years?
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile St Louis just got $10 million to build a new light rail stop in midtown StL, and area no denser than midtown KC. The real difference is that StL ADDED population along its light rail spine while urban KC LOST population everywhere but downtown. Wonder why mayor Francis Slays biggest contributor (who lives in StL) spent so much money working against rail transit in KC?
ReplyDeleteSMART, KC...real smart. Can't wait for the magic buses Sherry and Dan have in store for us.
If StL knew about those I bet they wouldn't be wasting our money on their silly 19th century technology.
St. Louis runs light rail, not at street car. The rail in StL does not sit on the street. Very different from what we're clamoring for, which is no more than a bus running on the street that is unable to turn. I'm not against commuter rail, but this plan sucks.
DeleteHmm. I wonder what 5th District Congressional candidate Jacob Turk has to say about this? Maybe a picture of a yard sign.
ReplyDeleteJust imagine how much their population would have grown if the had magical modern technology FROM THIS CENTURY, like streetcars with wheels!
ReplyDeleteI bet they would have added population along all those bus lines in St Louis if only they had them! But not every city can be as SMART as world class, cutting edge KC!
We probably could reverse our own staggering population loss everywhere but downtown too, if only we would have this BRAND NEW TECHNOLOGY calles "bus lines", because they are JUST AS GOOD AS RAIL IN EVERY WAY! Pat Touhey says so, and he should know, since Rex Sinquefield pays him AND the Mayor of St Louis!
If you don't believe me we could try it and see! It's never yet been tested, because there are none of these "bus lines" anywhere to compare against stinky 19th century trains with their stinky 19th century efficiency and their stinky 19th century "population growth" or their stinky 19th century "proven track record of ecouraging development".
Its good to be soooo SMART that every other city in the country follows you're lead and says NO! to change or investement.
Thanks, Sherry, Marsha, Sam, Bryan, Mike, Pat, Pat and Jim for leading the way. Now we can do things exactly like we have done them for the last 60 years,, which has lead to a real golden age for supersmart KC! You guys are basically like Harriet Tubman!
Wow we where lucky that much money is like a 5 dollar bill to the Feds. You go Cleaver maybe in ten years you can get us more than a foot of track because that's what your million buys.
ReplyDeleteJacob Turk has been silent on this issue and the important issue of UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL and he has failed to state his views on this menace. I guess he doesn't want to be Congressman Turk.
ReplyDeleteThere will be no truly cost effective and efficient public transit improvements while the toy train crew remains in office that's obvious.
ReplyDeleteHow does this con man continue to get elected? He never goes east of the stadiums nor south of Bannister.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone in Lees Summit, Lone Jack, Grain Valley, Odessa, Lexington or Marshall ever see this guy?
Have you ever saw a yard sign?
Wasn't the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Stimulus payoff) suppose to provide for infrastructure investment on mass public transit?
ReplyDeleteCleaver is an Osambo dingleberry. Enough said.
ReplyDeleteYou mean for his church members don't you? cleaver hasn't brought fuck all to kansas city without strings attached and in the end he gives you that fucked up "huh?" look when you say something to him
ReplyDeleteAll the plans, buses, toy trains and teleporters in the world don't matter when there aren't any jobs to get to. I don't think the 5th District's problem is that we have all these jobs poor slobs can't get to each day. The problem is that we don't have any jobs. Look at the Cleaver's constituency - urban blacks. Their unemployment level has gone from bad to worse under Cleaver and Obama (yet they get re-elected because racism). One week Cleaver is at the border assuaging the Hispanic vote, because it means more roofing/drywall/painting/landscape jobs for Hispanics, and the next week he's rolling out this chunk of taxpayer money that won't do anything but pay some consultants to figure out how to get a train from Lone Jack to Troost. How about getting out of the way and letting the job creators create jobs? Oh, and maybe empower local communities to change education so that kids come out ready to work? What a waste, and just in time for the election.
ReplyDeleteThe jobs are in the inner-ring suburbs and beyond. Even downtown is becoming a residential community with all the apartments.
ReplyDeleteWhat's needed are reverse-commute buses to get folks out to where the growth and employment are, but the same old tired duds are still stuck in the 1950s when commuting involved driving from bedroom communities to downtown.
Don't need another $1.2 million transportation study to tell you what's going on.
All study; no transportation.
As usual.
False.
Delete50% of metro area jobs are in the 50 square miles of urban KC MO.
Next red herring/suburban welfare apologist lie
556: Oh, don't try to confuse Russ with the facts. He passed the Mensa test, after all.
ReplyDeleteNo one is confused but you, Sam.
Delete1.2 mil is NOTHING in the grand scheme of transit. But it would pay off his car wash debt.
ReplyDeleteThis was not Cleaver's doing, it was MARC. Opportunity cost, think of other transportation projects that could have been funded.
ReplyDeleteMy bullshit meter is going wild again.
ReplyDeleteRE: "Department of Transportation awarded 1.2 million dollars to the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC)"
ReplyDeleteAnd what is MARC?
MARC is a nonprofit association of city and county governments and the metropolitan planning organization for the bistate Kansas City region. Governed by a Board of Directors made up of local elected officials, we serve nine counties and 119 cities. We provide a forum for the region to work together to advance social, economic and environmental progress.
MARC is funded by federal, state and private grants, local contributions and earned income. A major portion of our budget is passed through to local governments and other agencies for programs and services. see marc.org
Who are the Board Officers?
Five white politicians.... SURPRISE!!!!
MARC represents the metro political power structure. And some of these people are not above using their positions to enrich themselves and their friends, it's human nature. Think of it as the white middle/upper-middle class version of government-dependent minorities.
Phony Negro.......please
ReplyDeletePay your ho bill.