Here's the contradiction . . . If the toy train streetcar is creating vibrancy and excitement and biz all over its route . . . Then why the need to spend as much as $50,000 on an effort to promote downtown businesses and more branding design efforts? Shouldn't the product speak for itself??? Or maybe, just maybe . . . The Kansas City Toy Train Streetcar is mostly sizzle and hype now burning through local taxpayer cash and desperate to drum up biz that's still CLEARLY moving away from the urban core. KC Streetcar Authority opens up checkbook - Kansas City Business Journal
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You wonder why small businesses want to leave KCMO?
ReplyDeleteFirst the big companies who already have lots of advantages are first in line for subsidies and other goodies.
Now tax money is used to advertise for particular businesses to make it look like the streetcar is a big success in attracting visitors and customers.
The whole downtown fiasco resembles nothing quite so much as a taxpayer-funded fake movie set.
Make sure those building facades are real before you try to go inside.
Here's the contradiction . . . If you hate the toy train streetcar so much that your dick throbs every time you take another pointless swipe at it . . . Then why the need to live here? Wouldn't you be happier somewhere else???
ReplyDeleteBecause this is really pointless. And your characterization of it "burning through local taxpayer cash" is yet another lame misrepresentation.
If you don't love boutique transportation, leave town!!!
ReplyDeleteLet the homeless ride the train.
ReplyDeleteThat is the fight to come.
Ya heard it here 1st!
"Here's the contradiction . . . If you hate the toy train streetcar so much that your dick throbs every time you take another pointless swipe at it . . . Then why the need to live here? Wouldn't you be happier somewhere else???"
ReplyDeleteSo, in other words, if people who have lived here for decades don't like the streetcar that's being forced on us (and wasting our tax dollars) by a nitwit from Nebraska and his merry hipster followers, WE should be the ones to leave town?
We might be happier if you were somewhere else. Why not ride out of town on a rail?
Well that's easy to answer, maybe because throughout the last 3 decades, under the like wised minds of dipshits like you, the ENTIRE metro has fallen behind compared to the USA. Why would we listen to car centric suburbanites when it comes to pulling our cities dick out the dirt!
DeleteSorry. That remains propaganda and silly fear mongering no matter how many times you say it. Your little showboat is not a panacea.
Delete4:43: The Hipster Manifesto Lives!
ReplyDelete"We hipsters are getting soooooo tired of all the negativity surrounding the glamorous streetcar we have decided this city (using the term loosely) will have, so we are hereby issuing the fifth revision of our Hipster Manifesto. After all, if it worked for Marx, it should work for us. We think Groucho would be so proud if only he were alive today, and if he wouldn't approve, well he could always move. Even if Groucho would not approve, Zeppo, Chico, and Gummo most likely would. Harpo never said anything, anyway, so who cares?
"It’s obvious that some people in Kansas City are behind the times and do not understand the contributions we hipsters are making to this once moribund cowtown. As incredible as it seems, some people actually (can you believe it?) object to the fact that they are inconvenienced by all of the benefits we are bringing to flyover country simply by breathing the air in this midwestern backwater. Well, all we can say is get used to it. We’re here, and we’re not going anywhere—well, for a while, anyway. The following are the new rules we hipsters are establishing for this burnt out burg. If you do not like them, you can always move. ..."
"We reserve the right to install any and all streetcar lines whenever and wherever we decide. Although we live in condos and apartments downtown that offer property tax subsidies, you are required to pay for the streetcars whether or not you ever use them. And don’t tell us to take the bus. We know there are a lot of them in this backwater, but buses are so Twentieth Century and are certainly not worthy of us hipsters. If you do not like this, you can always move. (Continued)
ReplyDelete"The taxing structure of the inevitable streetcar project was SUPPOSED to be a secret, but obviously someone blabbed. Yes, those who live within a half mile or so of the line will pay more in property taxes, and yes it’s supposed to be only for 25 years, but you know the city’s never gonna let go of that dough! And yes, the whole city gets to decide to impose this tax on the few who live near the streetcar lines and who also get to put up with the noise, dust, and all the other neato stuff that goes along with it. Well, so what? You should be happy the new technology will bring us closer to you. Why just having us ride within a half mile of your house should be worth something! And besides, if a whole state can vote to deny the tax breaks married people get to gay people, well, what’s wrong with the whole city making a minority of property owners pay a little more for the things we want? What’s good for the goosed is good for whatever. And a lot of people in Brookside and Waldo are gay, anyway, so they’re used to getting shafted when it comes to taxes. (A few of us hipsters are gay, so we put this in just for them; we do have to pander every now and again even if we don’t really think they’re as kewl as us.) If you people in Brookside and Waldo do not like our taking over your neighborhoods for such events as marathons and streetcars and paying for our new toys, well that’s your problem. You should of thought about that before you moved into such attractive neighborhoods in the first place, and you can always move.
"Each and every streetcar line should have a stop at a Wal-Mart. While in principle we hipsters would not be caught dead in one of these places, in practice we do like low prices. Starbucks only pays so much, you know, and, let’s face it, with so many of us majoring in fine arts history, Wal-Mart is a good source of employment until we can get our real lives jump started or find a job at Starbucks, so, although we do like to keep it quiet, some of us actually have jobs at Wal-Mart and no cars. Don’t get us wrong. We certainly don’t want to live near a Wal-Mart. Heavens, no! Why, have you seen the kind of people Wal-Mart attracts? Eeeeeeew!
"While we condemn any overt discrimination against people of color, we don’t really want to have anything to do with them (unless they happen to be hipsters, like us), hence our aversion to buses and our unwillingness to cross Troost and certainly Prospect. It’s all good and well to talk equality, but really, people! We are, of course, willing to use racism as a tool against any and all of our opponents. If you don’t like marathons, streetcars, and higher taxes for things we want, you’re a racist, in other words. See how well that works? If you don’t like it, you can always move to some Ku Klux Klan enclave in Utah or wherever."
Breaking: TJC trolls and city hating sub-rube-an fearbots totally ignore the growing waiting list for the newest wildly successful streetcar related development...the first downtown tower to be build in a generation!
ReplyDeleteAlso ignore the fact that there's not a waiting list to live anywhere in Poverland Oark or the northland, despite public subsidies and tax breaks for suburban development and largely unused infrastructure...
Let's see. Empty promises, weird elitism, name calling. This is why you keep losing. Well one of the reasons anyway.
DeleteDid we lose? I saw something that looked a lot like streetcar track being installed all along Main Street downtown today.
DeleteAnd they'll be all the way to brookside within 5...
The streetcar cheering hipsters will maybe ride the toy train once. Cuz it will never be cool.
ReplyDelete5 millenia maybe.
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