TKC TOLD YOU SO!!! TWO WEEKS LATER: KANSAS CITY STAR RUNS TKC TIPSTERTOY TRAIN BIZ KILLING STREETCAR TESTIMONY!!!



Yet again our KICK-ASS BLOGGY COMMUNITY HAS BEEN VINDICATED by our FIRST, BREAKING NEWS AND AWESOME reporting of uncomfortable facts that other media have now confirmed . . .

Still on our sidebar and published FIRST on TKC . . .

THE SUNDAY KANSAS CITY STAR CONFIRMS THE TOY TRAIN STREETCAR KILLING CROSSROADS BIZ WITH POORLY PLANNED CONSTRUCTION!!!

Here's the report: Downtown businesses rail at Kansas City's streetcar snarl Remember . . .

Some of the most WELL-INFORMED AND AWESOME TKC TIPSTERS told us as much earlier in the month.

And now the story is front and center because our bloggy community had the courage to come out and say it FIRST. Letting everyone know the promise of eco-devo benefit from the toy train has worked out to have the opposite effect so far.

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  1. Leave it to some Germans to blindly trust a corrupt leader then act surprised when things go bad.

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    1. 8:16... yeah.. and what about Reagers, Extra Virgin, and the like across the street. They've all but shut down. The city promised 3 months, they delivered going on 9 months. In GERMANY, moron, construction is delivered on time. In a lowest bidder, union run, job the work goes to the ones with the most "diversity". If you don't know what you're talking about, shut the hell up and close your pie-hole, idiot.

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    2. Germany might be a nice place for you. I bet you voted for Sly and his ilk. How's it working out for you?

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  2. Clipping coupons11/23/14, 8:17 AM

    KC Star = always late to the party. Worthless rag - no wonder its highest and best use is for copying and pasting. Likely the newstory has already run well before it decides to write an honest perspective on anything. They are bandwagon writers, at best. At worst, it's opinionated, one-sided bullshit. It's usually a worse case scenario with them.

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  3. Actually the article was balanced. Even Mensa boy came off quoted as if he might have some sympathy for the victims of mass construction.

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  4. If it is that much work to replace sewer and water lines for a 2 mile stretch, how much and how long to replace old lines throughout city?

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  5. What the fuck ? Hold the presses........

    That goofy fuck selling t-shirts out of the back of a rental truck was ask to move his truck to another location. That does not constitute a business killing event.

    Sorry, that dipshit was selling sweatshop Viet Nam made t-shirts. Moving his worthless, hipster ass was a community service.

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  6. Article reminds us again that streetcar money should have been spent on providing free parking.

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  7. It is the rush rush factor that is causing the problem. If the water and sewer were replaced first for the entire length rather than keep holes open with plates and do cross street work also which this article did not approach. Then when everything is replaced put in the rails.
    Oh well the business people helped get the boondoggle passed now let them pay the price in silence and quit crying.

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    1. You, 10:54, know nothing. Unless the business owners owned property or lived there, they HAD NO VOTE. Perhaps before you speak, you should research how a transportation development district is created, and then we would not have to ignore such stupidity as the comment about the biz-people helping create this mess. The majority of property owners took this to court to get it STOPPED, because they had no representation. The people living in the district voted on passing this.

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  8. It's beyond comical to read the part where the business owners think the city (read:taxpayers) should provide a fund to pay them grant money to make up for lost business while this fiasco is constructed.
    Downtown KC is already nothing but a publicly-subsidized amusement park for 20-somethings.
    And will be for decades to come, even after the millenials have decamped to the safe neighborhoods, yards for the kids, and good schools in the suburbs.
    What a visionary group Sly and the gang are!

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    1. Agreed... the taxpayers should not bail out anyone. But perhaps NOT more than doubling the health-department fees over the last 6 months, DURING construction, would have been a little thoughtful, or not collecting the tax that's paying for this.

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  9. RealTKCHeadlines11/23/14, 12:20 PM

    TKC TOLD YOU SO!!! I'VE BEEN VINDICATED BUT MY CREDIBILITY IS STILL ZILCH!!! NO GETTING THAT BACK!!!

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  10. Tony KC is the BEST. Always in front of the crowd. Why go anywhere else. !!! Kudos.

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  11. You think they could find some money in the street car budget to bring Floyd Mayweather, Jr. to town to talk about domestic violence. That would be money will spent. He is such a good role model.

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  12. If the Main Street Line does not turn out to be an unqualified success (without fudging the ridership numbers or attributing every new development within 3 blocks to the streetcar), it will be obvious the we the public have been had once again. There will be no bad consequences for the movers and shakers who pushed the project. In fact, they'll come out richer regardless. I hope somebody is making a list of the culprits, and somebody else is looking for good deals on tar and feathers.

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  13. Maybe they should ask the toy train master minds, Sherri McIntyre, Fatty Patty and Ralph Davis how they are going to handle it. Oh yeah, they could not find their way out of a paper bag no less build a street car system. Worse three public works employees ever!!

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  14. 4:08: The streetcar will not turn out to a success, qualified or otherwise. Most people can walk two miles, several bus lines already serve the route, and the streetcar takes up space better used by cars.

    The best thing that can be said for it is water and sewer lines that needed replacing will be replaced because of it.

    The streetcar itself will serve the same purpose as an amusement park ride, and the people who voted against its expansion will be so glad the TDD failed.

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  15. Waa,waa. Everyone of those people mentioned in the article are streetear supporters. I have no sympathy. Especially for Michael Smith, one of the biggest proponents. Be careful what you wish for people.

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