TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY STREETCAR CHEERLEADER CONSULTANTS AND ACTIVISTS RAGE AS THE TOY TRAIN GOES OUT OF STYLE!!!
It seems that the rejection of streetcar transit across the nation is creating a political rift behind the scenes in Kansas City.
To wit . . .
KANSAS CITY IS BOTH AHEAD AND BEHIND THE CURVE WHEN IT COMES TO THE TOY TRAIN STREETCAR AND NOW CONSULTANTS AND ACTIVISTS SUPPORTING ANOTHER RIGGED ELECTION ARE ANGRY AT THOSE WHO HAVE LOST FAITH!!!
First, a useful bit of evidence revealing that the streetcar is old school and out of style:
New York Times:
Now the story from an AWESOME TKC TIPSTER . . .
"TKC, I just wanted to let you know that a former friend of mine was one of the main forces behind establishing the initial streetcar route. A couple of years ago, I even helped THIS PERSON to collect signatures to push the project forward. Now, as the costs mount and I see how horrible the construction process has become, I have second thoughts about extending the project. I didn't want to tell him that I voted against the expansion line.
"Well, this weekend we had an all out shouting match when I simply said that I think we should wait and see how the first line works out before we start another route. My friend flew into hysterics and starting yelling at me uncontrollably. I got out of that situation because I'm not a political person and I was really shocked at this kind of out of character behavior from an otherwise rational person. In less than an hour this "consultant" had deleted me from his list of friends and followers on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram AND Pinterest. Unbelievable! I just wanted you and your readers to know that these people must be getting desperate if they can't take the slightest question or remark. As for me, I consider myself lucky that this toxic person is out of my life. I thought we were friends but it's clear they can't handle a real exchange of ideas or friendship. Shame on me for trusting this political person but I really thought we were friends."
And there you have it.
The out of favor and out of date Kansas City toy train streetcar isn't just killing our local budget and decimating downtown restaurant biz . . . It's destroying friendships.
Developing . . .
I'm pretty sure this "political person" has an unpopular podcast.
ReplyDeleteThey all do. But I've actually listened to his.
More proof that streetcars are emotional rather than logical.
ReplyDeleteFail!
ReplyDeleteIt's.. alive!
ReplyDelete3:10; the over reaction of blocking him on every single form of social media sounds like "the other one's" M.O.
ReplyDeleteanyway, make no mistake that no matter how much mounting evidence there is that the streetcar scam was ill conceived, there will be future attempts in the upcoming council to expand the line using TDDS in an attempt to bypass the majority of Kansas City voters. all of whom will be impacted by the street cars mounting costs.
perhaps the tipster who is no longer friends with the consultant will join me in collecting signatures for the smart KC petition which would require a five-year waiting period before the next attempts to expand streetcar, and allow the entire tax base to vote in a citywide election as opposed to a gerrymandered district.
Why don't you recommend that the city council all ride on a bus from the stadiums on I-70 into downtown and let them see how the city really looks to people driving in for a visit. Them ask them why it's not priority to clean up the blight
DeleteYour consultant ex friend must be Dave Johnson. he has been known to fly into fits of rage when challenged. He has me blocked on his twitter feed because I once made a negative comment on something he said.
ReplyDeleteYep. Ol' David doesn't have the best frustration tolerance.
DeleteDavid's a delicate little flower until you challenge the streetcar...then the claws come out!!!
ReplyDeleteThere is going to be NO toy train extensions David.
ReplyDeleteThe actual need and use were never there.
ReplyDeleteThe excitement and "cutting-edge" hype faded long ago.
The construction and its terribly negative impact on small businesses downtown will continue for many months.
The public interest in such a silly waste of money has evaporated.
The gang who really made their money in all the hype, planning, bonds, construction, and legal antics couldn't care less how it actually turns out.
And the tens of millions in debt will go on for decades.
Calling all urban futurists:
All aboard!
Bwhahahahahaha
ReplyDeleteToy Train Neighbors
Now that's really hilarious. There's our boy!!
DeleteThe United Streetcar Company was supposed to create 300 full-time jobs and bring millions of dollars into the Oregon economy.
ReplyDeleteSupposedly geared up to build 24 streetcars a year, United Street took several years to build 18, all of which were delivered late to Portland, Tucson, and Washington DC. Never having built a streetcar before, quality control was so poor that Portland ended up paying another engineering company a couple of million dollars overseeing United Streetcar’s work.
Based on its track record of delays and poor quality control, none of the other cities building streetcar lines placed any orders, and last year the company quietly closed its doors (or, to be precise, Oregon Iron Works put its assembly line to work building speed boats). Although its web site is still on line, United Streetcar didn’t pay its $100 annual filing fee with the Oregon Secretary of State in 2014, leading the state to dissolve the company.
If that's the guy that keeps coming on here to defensively screech whenever there's any doubt about this silliness, that would make sense....same attitude
ReplyDeleteLying, two faced, back stabbing twerp. He obviously still doesn't get it.
ReplyDeleteWe live amidst so much delaminating plastic it’s a wonder that virtually everybody doesn’t have cancer. The squalor is awesome, and to make matters worse, we’re even too lazy to clean up the stuff that is just lying around on the ground — and certainly too lazy to try to grow anything in that ground if it didn’t promise to grow up looking like a pepperoni stick or a corn dog.
ReplyDeleteDickhead Dave Johnson. He'll delete and block any kansas citian that questions the streetcar. Not surprised he'd flip out on one of his friends. The guy is unstable.
ReplyDeleteHow dare anyone say anything against the toy train. In some country's you would be shot for speaking out. Same thing as for saying anything against our President. Fool!. Succumb or be shunned.
ReplyDeleteMr. Tony,
ReplyDelete!
The retro-in-a-bad-way streetcar really sucks. it sucks as a eco-devo tool, it sucks as mass transit. It sucks aesthetically. It sucks as it deviously syphons money from the general fund. It sucks as it destroys reputations.
This Sly Toy Train flat out sucky sucks. Only a bastard would continue to defend this stalled disaster.
Weird, no one likes the street car? Who'd of thunk!
ReplyDeleteTrotsky's love the idea of a street car
ReplyDelete5:31 is absolutely correct. I don't blame your former friend for deleting you from his life. How dare you question his fetish? Once the not yet in service but already at break even magical mysterical Mensa boy memorial combination flying carpet and streetcar amusement park ride is up and running everything will be rainbows, lollipops and unicorns, and locals will be singing and dancing "Everything's Up-To-Date in Kansas City" and other tunes from the 1940s.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, according to posts by its supporters on this very blog, it:
1. Is already at break even in spite of being over budget, behind schedule, downscaled, not even yet in existence, and, being free, will not bring in any revenue to cover its operating expenses. It's truly an economic miracle. Coming next: City water will be turned into wine, but water pressure may vary.
2. Is being 100% paid for by the Fourth District, which by itself and without help from any other district, is also subsidizing the Northland.
3. Is something every other city in the universe has if you define the universe as Phoenix, Little Rock, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, Sacramento, Denver, Tampa, Savannah, New Orleans, Baltimore, Boston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Louis, Hudson-Bergen (NJ), Newark, Camden-Trenton (NJ), Buffalo, Charlotte (NC), Portland (OR), Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Memphis, Dallas, Houston, Salt Lake City, Norfolk (VA), Seattle-Tacoma, Kenosha (WI) and Mars.
4. Will magically and mysterically create tens of thousands--maybe hundreds of thousands of jobs downtown. Maybe even millions.
5. Is supported by someone who passed the Mensa test and is, therefore, smarter than you, me and all the other rubes. Especially sub rubes.
6. Is supported by most of the people who live west of Troost from the River to about 75th street. You know, the ones who pay most of the taxes that support this entire city. Although that wouldn’t include a certain soon-to-be termed out clowncilperson who, being in the north boonies and away from all the rif raf and construction, is saved from being a sub rube solely because of his support for the project.
7. Is opposed only by those who are being paid off by the Koch brothers, Rex Sinquefield, Kim Jong-un or Vladimir Putin (provided you're willing to accept rubles) or who have an illegally fenced-in yard (which is now legal), a loading dock, or some other equally nefarious ill-gotten illegal perk to protect. There is not one person in this city without ulterior motives who has examined the wisdom of bringing 1940s technology back to 21st Century Kansas City and has come up with a logical or economical reason to oppose the streetcar; therefore, the Kochs, Rex, Kim and Vlad are solely responsible for the 60-40 vote against the streetcar as no one who did not get a payoff would vote against such a sensible solution to Kansas City's transportation needs. And certainly none of its supporters have a vested interest in seeing the streetcar forced on Kansas City whether they want it or not. (Pay no attention to the termed-out clowncilperson behind the curtain who'll be needing a job come summer or BNIM and other potential contractors--they have absolutely no vested interest in the project. Nope. None at all.)
Etc.
So Tonys Denizens are the reasoned, well mannered, considerate, open minded side of the argument?
ReplyDeleteHeh.
As reported here.
Well, the problem with your comeback is that it's false. Certainly the folks here can be vulgar and silly. But what you continue to fail to see is that your messaging strategy--ridicule or ignore opposition---doesn't work.
DeleteDon't block me David!;)
Only 78% are White Supremacist here in Kansas City and that's not nearly enough
ReplyDeleteAnd Mensa boy will herf derf in three, two.. .
ReplyDeleteEven Craig Glazer thinks the streetcar here is stupid. He's right.
ReplyDeleteCentral planners are all cut from the same stock. They all rationalize that a few eggs will be broken on the way to an omelet. Street cars are small potatoes in the big leagues but young socialists need to start somewhere. I bet Mao and Stalin both began this way.
ReplyDeleteAnd Mensa boy will herf derf in three, two.. .
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many times you going to brick that?
As silly and self-important as people like Johnson and the rest of the kiddiecorps who rolled into town from little rural towns around the mid-west are, they didn't appoint themselves to the Streetcar Authority, or rig an election, or transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars from PIAC accounts, or issue hundreds of millions in bonds.
ReplyDeleteSly and the other electeds did.
Let's be sure the "credit" goes where it's due.
The kids will all be leaving town soon and the actual residents and businesses here will be paying for decades.
And the attitudes at city hall aren't going to change a bit with the "new" gang coming after this election.
Streetcar from crown center to river market makes sense for tourists. Beyond that is pure folly.
ReplyDeleteI talked to a streetcar supporter and asked why he liked the streetcar and he turned red and started foaming at the mouth and shot my dog and kicked my cat because he actually likes cats and got in his Prius and drove all over my lawn and ran over my hibuscus and got out and fucked my wife in anger.
ReplyDeletethen he left. i really thought we were friends.
In other words, Mr. Botello, we're all filing this under Shit That Didn't Happen.
Maybe the city should send some PW staff to Spain and see what they think? Who needs a vacation?
ReplyDeletePrediction: The streetcar will eventually open, run for a while and then fail. The Fat Bowtie will claim that the line cant be extended because the people wont vote for it and that will excuse the failure of the first part. He will take no resposibility for the fiasco :( He might even dance at the press conference.
ReplyDeleteFat Bowtie, you make us yearn for the return of the Funk. You have spent the City into oblivion. Shame on you! And shame on that hapless shell of a reporter, ex-Ruckette, Yael "Fail" T Abouhalkah.
As always Yael, you have the right to comment... unlike your censored, mostly commentless blog.
ReplyDeleteWhat say ye, Yael T Abouhalkah??? In light of your loss of facetime on the boob tube, I say: Talk to us :) Make us remember who you were!
ReplyDeleteFunk... just in case you are reading this, no one wants you back. The entire City hopes never to see or hear from you again!
ReplyDeleteWho is the idiot that thinks the 4th District supports the Northland (forgetting, for a moment, that part of the 4th is in the Northland). With Cordish sucking $14 million and counting per year from the general fund, the 4th isn't propping up the Northland.
ReplyDeleteThe streetcar will waver here, too. It's just a matter of months. New council, new focus. Four years of lying losers wondering about without clue.
ReplyDelete9:40: As stated by 6:31, these are statements made by streetcar supporters taken from this here very blog.
ReplyDeleteYael who?
ReplyDeleteThe area between the river and Brush Creek, from State Line to Troost provides 50% of the cities tax base, despite only being about 1/10 of its land mass.
ReplyDeleteSorry, kids. Facts are facts.
Street Car we don't need NO stinking street car! We need Mensa man dancing at the Strand. We need a toy train (HO size) at Union Station for the Clay believers to play with.
ReplyDeleteSame with me 906, except shot my cat and kicked my dog.
ReplyDeleteBut I am certain it was a Prius.
That file of Shit That Did Not Happen is getting thicker.