TKC BLOG COMMUNITY TOLD YOU SO!!! PITCH CONFIRMS KANSAS CITY TRAGIC TOY TRAIN STREETCAR CONSTRUCTION KILLING DOWNTOWN RESTAURANT BIZ!!!



Last year via this blog a rather KICK-ASS KANSAS CITY INSIDER unleashed a can of rhetorical and reporting whoop-ass on this town that's still challenging perceptions about Kansas City's upcoming streetcar.

And now . . .

THE PITCH FOLLOWS UP OUR KICK-ASS TKC BLOG COMMUNITY AWESOME WITH AN IN-DEPTH REPORT ON KANSAS CITY DOWNTOWN RESTAURANT BIZ IN DECLINE THANKS TO THE FAILED TOY TRAIN STREETCAR CONSTRUCTION EFFORT!!!

Savor this masterpiece:

Ferruzza: Main Street's most respected chefs wonder how they'll survive streetcar construction

Here's what we notice . . .

ALREADY PAID CONSULTANTS ARE HARD AT WORK TRYING TO SPIN THIS ONE IN THE COMMENTS AND VIA SOCIAL MEDIA . . . IF THEY SHOW UP HERE, PLEASE BE RUTHLESS GIVEN THAT SOME OF THE MORE DUPLICITOUS MEMBERS OF THIS CREW DISGUISED THEMSELVES AS COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS BEFORE THEY TOOK THEIR MARKETING GIGS!!!

Seriously, it's no big deal when a consultant climbs aboard the toy train streetcar bandwagon but the way some of these dweebs like Staubio tried to pass themselves off like real "neighborhood advocates" while lining up consulting gigs was one of the most disgraceful things this town has ever seen . . . Other than, of course, the stolen election to establish the toy train district.

Anyhoo . . . There's no denying that toy train construction is killing Downtown Kansas City . . . What's worse is that this effort isn't going to pay off and when people get a look at limited ridership that's already hurting other towns . . . THAT is when negative reax over this so-called "folly trolley" idea will get even worse.

Developing . . .

Comments

  1. Better title: Sly serves up steaming pile of bankruptcy to restauranteurs on rails.

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  2. Kansas City kills neighbors and business. Kansas City is focus on how abuse of authority and yielding to ego... so, this doesn't surprise me one bit.

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  3. Nothing worse than "I told you so guys".

    More important to be right, or wrong and have your City succeed?

    You don't have to answer.

    And, I am not a herf derf, just someone who can accept that sometimes things go differently than what I want.

    Am I an outlyer because I opposed the rail project, but have to see things get F-ed up just for the benefit of "I was right, you were wrong".

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  4. Kansas City kills neighbors and business. Kansas City is focused on abuse of authority and yielding to ego... so, this doesn't surprise me one bit.

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  5. @649, Tony's TKC=endless bitching about things not going our way. probably in the wrong place

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  6. It's fine to blame snake oil salesmen,insiders, grifters, urban futurists, bond attorneys and all this rest for the streetcar fiasco, but it was the people KCMO residents elected who drank the Koolaid, made the decisions, "borrowed" funds from every city account they could find, and took the votes to enable and enrich the rest of the crowd, and all at the residents' expense.
    The "plan" itself didn't have the real support necessary and got started only because of a clever and rigged vote based around a completely inappropriate use of the TDD statute and when a big, expensive, long-term project begins with a ruse, it's unlikely to get any better as it moves ahead.
    Now, after what few actual businesses there are downtown go under, we'll see how poorly KCMO will operate and maintain this expensive toy, just like the airport, streets, and pretty much everything else it owns.
    The transit enthusiasts are running out of spin, excuses, and promises.
    Reality has arrived. And will be followed by decades of 10-15 million/year bond payments taking money from the general fund that could have been used for actual needs.
    A fiasco.

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  7. Are you saying Fabio is Cum Guy?

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  8. Read the article, rubes. 3/4 business owners interviewed actually say business is up.

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  9. 6:49: I don't think anyone wanted to see the streetcar project get fucked up just to prove we were right. It's simply there was no way the project would not get fucked up and suck the city dry.

    It reminds me of when Kay Barnes said the city was not prepared for snow removal because it was relying on global warming to give us mild winters.

    Anyone should have seen either disaster. Especially a certain someone who passed---the Mensa test!!!

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  10. Just don't call me a LIBTARD or self loathing!

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  11. Agreed as long as you don't call anyone who questions the wisdom of the project or Mensa boy "rubes." (Especially ironic coming from a Nebraskan.)

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  12. HARDCHARGER will be scouring the Tommy Osborne Nebrasky football wiki for quotes that relate to the streetcar in 3...2...1...

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  13. It's not the construction. It's the blacks.

    Yet, every day all over this country blacks and browns are beating, robbing, raping and killing Whites on street corners, restaurants, schools, buses, department stores and every place imaginable.

    Whites are being displaced and sit at the bottom of the pecking order.

    No one in authority relying on a paycheck from this tyrannical government is offended by the situation or will offer to lift a finger to help us or say as much as a single word supporting us.

    They all know the truth. Hunter’s ‘Color of Crime’ series shows clearly who the victims of this race war are. Studies and statistics by other sources also are available to everyone all over the internet.

    Not one of our elected leaders locally or nationally shows any concern whatsoever for White constituents.

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  14. It's atheism that's killing the restaurant trade in this city.

    See, one aspect of the atheist influence is gluttony. Look around you next time you go to the store, everybody has a big fat ass or a gut that hangs over like an apron. It’s absolutely ridiculous.

    Jesus said in his great discourse on faith:

    "For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?"

    Gluttony is a lack of faith. A lack of faith is part and parcel of the atheistic influence. Show me an obese person, and I’ll show you a slave to this world, a slave who’s only comforts are the indulgence of his or her bodily pleasures, a hedonist, an atheist.

    But let me also say this, even if a person is obese, if they are losing weight in the name of Christ, though they are currently overweight, they are not the person I’m talking about, for those people have repented. They are perfect and it doesn’t matter what they’re body looks like.

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  15. What's it take to be called self loathing?

    Sniveling dumb asses.

    But o appreciate the interjection of faith.

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  16. that's some spin all right.

    paid consultants are going to look at this shithole for two seconds, shake their heads, and move along.

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  17. And Mensa boy finds a new "clevar" way to herf derf at 8:28 & 8:41.

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  18. What really needs to be investigated is why is there such a bull in a china shop program to put these street cars in every freaking city in the country. What is Barracks cut? How many of these trains across the country are coming from Spain? Do the homework folks there is something shady in this shit.

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  19. When Obamacare and the new wave of taxes kicked in it made it be damn near impossible for businesses to make a go of it.

    I must confess to beeing sickened by what has transpired. And yes, much of my disgust is with the dumbass White people in the North.

    I despise White libtards as much as groids.

    But more than half the country is ‘Gibs me dat’. Yes, government scum bag union slobs and minorities both.

    I thought with the internet and sites such as this, Whitey would begin to wake up. Well, a few have but not many. Most are traitors.

    You would have thought that all those videos of Whites getting sucker punched, beaten, robbed and killed would have raised the ire of our people.

    Same situation as in France. When the darkies went wild burning everything in site, YT retreated further and elected a full blown socialist who catered to the slime balls.

    Sorry, but worse just gets worse for us.

    There are some beautiful areas in Kentucky that were/are appealing to me. Very few niggers in those parts, unlike much of the rest of the South.

    I would like to move from these deracinated fools up here. I can’t stand looking at their COWARDLY faces any longer.

    My wife who is gun shy just told me she wants to get a conceal and carry permit and take a gun course. She never considered doing that before. Her face is white as a sheet at the moment and she is afraid of what is coming next.

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  20. Clang, Clang, Clang!

    And in Clay County some of us still don't like the North.

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  21. Could have just modernized and upgraded downtown's bus system for a small fraction of the cost and none of this bullshit would have ever happened.

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    1. They already did that, dipshit.

      We know you are behind the times, but Jesus...

      Next red herring (how bout sewers hurf derf!)

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  22. I would bet the odds that they would fail even without the streetcar.

    If you look across the city as a whole, what percentage of them even existed as recent as 2000? There's some classics but restaurants open and close very quickly.

    Even prime restaurant spots like the Plaza have tons of turnover.

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    1. 10:24, Common sense and reality have no place in tonys Johnson county! Only anti-city, anti transit impotent rage boners and Herf derf retarded logical fallacies and reactionary shrieking and teeth gnashing!

      That and little dick white boys hate speech and internet tough guy posing!

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  23. to 10:20. We could have if people would vote for more bus service improvements. There's been three recent votes that show otherwise

    1. the citywide 2009 rail tax that took it's local funding from busses passed.
    2. the downtown streetcar vote
    3. streetcar phase 2/Prospect Max vote where precincts along Prospect voted the lowest percentage of yes votes for the plan of the entire expanded TDD despite a promise of improved bus service

    Of the streetcar money,

    $17 million is shared from a yearly pooor that largely goes to roads across the region. This is open to busses every year but it needs a local match.

    Another $20 million is a federal grant. They do give to bus plans.

    Some ($7mm ?) is city money that could have equal amounts toward bus improvements

    The rest is a tax that was passed because it would go towards the train. I wouldn't expect the same for bus service.

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  24. Evidently Mensa boy is practicing to be a fiction writer (8:28, 8:41, 9:22, etc.) once his unemployment checks stop, and he's practicing on us. I'd say keep your day job, but fortunately that's not possible.

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  25. 9:22

    Aa someone who has lived on both coasts, this town doesn't need the toy train. This place is spread out like LA, but has tornados instead of earthquakes. This place has race problems and quirks, and a baby art scene like NYC, but has too shallow of a water table and floods too much for a subway.


    Newsflash: Also, in NYC today the Trains got stuck again, because it is so darn cold.

    Newsflash: It was cold in LA last night. People wore gloves and got to pretend that 40 in the valley is cold.

    I talk to people every day on both coasts.

    My co-horts come every year. No one complains about KC but for the florida guys (orlando. tampa, miaimi, BoRa)...and thats because they are freaks. Most people from Florida are freaks.

    The toy train will be neat till whitey gets capped and no one wants to ride it and patronize the businesses along the route. Also, I have an expired concealed carry, I suppose I need to renew it.

    I have been opposed to this thing from the start, this town has very narrow streets, it is a car town because people like their space. They drive big cars around here and no one gives a crap about the drinking trolly so why would this work?

    Also, there are tunnels out of union station that could be used for trains as well.

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  26. 10:29: The Prospect MAX was part of a cynical bait and switch for the streetcar. The Main Street and Troost MAX routes did not require a vote, so why did the Prospect MAX? People did not vote against the MAX. They voted against the streetcar, and they voted against people thinking that just because they didn't pass the Mensa test eastsiders are stupid.

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    1. Eastsiders ARE stupid. As proves when they turned down a plan to build the biggest infrastructure investment in the history of the east side, alon the highway transit usage corridors and densest neighborhood in the city where redevelopment potential is most needed and massive depopulation and retail loss have decimated neighborhoods which would have been 90% paid for by people and businesses west of main. All because freedom got paid off and a couple shills for right wing and anti city forced hoodwinked them.

      East side = suckers.

      What are sherry and Dan doin for you guys now? Remember the magical mystery buses you were going it get that were free and ran everywhere all the time? Ask dan and pat and sherry where they are now?

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  27. 10:20 and 10:29 know their stuff. Its like a MARC KDOT and MODOT smackdown in here.

    Stop picking on Mensa. Dude, you gotta stop stealing my jokes.

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  28. 10:35 your post is confusing.

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  29. Read the transit studies. The first Max was supposed to go down Troost. It went down Main. The second choice was Prospect. Main was third. So why did it go down Main?

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  30. B.S. on you 10:57, that money was going to build the trolley into the Plaza. Why should the east side pay for more plaza transit when we aren't wanted down there anyway. So you have a few new bus lines, all that's left for the third district is crumbs. No thanks Sly, you keep those all for yourself.

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    1. 11:05 with the kcmo public schools math...

      When 75% of the tracks were getting laid east of main, where there is no tax base...guess who's subsidizing who.

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  31. 11:01...good point, but I need some more information ...also I think the tracks are made in France somewhere somebody told me that? Is this true? We got the invasion of normandy coming on the concrete?

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  32. Only The Shadow Knows1/7/15, 11:40 AM

    The trains are made in Spain and it's doubtful they will work in the rain which falls mainly on this plain.

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  33. 10:57: And which of the famous Johnsons are you?

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  34. You have to realize that the toy train is good for Kansas City.

    What is good for the Kemper banks, J. E. Dunn Construction, Burns and McDonnell, Black and Veatch, HTNB and the other assorted construction and engineering contractors and law firms as well as the Kemper banks, is good for Kansas City.

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  35. Seems like it's good for business too, since 3 of the four business owners interviewed reported better sales since construction started...

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  36. Doesn't matter now, all you fake 3rd district residet who are actually from brookside. The voters have spoken:

    The east side is fine with the buses it has and doesn't want a max on prospect or any new transit investments.

    The Main Street corridor overwhelmingly supports streetcar expansion to umkc or brookside.

    Ask and ye shall receive.

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  37. OK, 12:26, how about letting the east side vote on a MAX without requiring them to approve a streetcar to get it?

    Face it. What little support there is for the streetcar for will evaporate once people see what's involved in its construction and realize it's really an inflexible bus.

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  38. OMG, now we have dip shits guessing, incorrectly, whose posts are Mensa Boy's.

    Between that and 800 word posts, the downward trend of this blog is accelerating.

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  39. Thanks for doing your part, 5:18.

    You're probably right about the incorrect guesses. As incoherent as they are, they're way too coherent for Hardcharger.

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  40. Echo echo echo echo....

    Chamber amber amber amber...

    Of irrelevancy.

    Tiny's Broken Record. Cut/paste. Rinse/repeat.

    Then repeat again.

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  41. Now THAT'S the Mensa boy we all know and love!

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