Best Laid Plans: Kansas City Toy Train Tracks Complete Amid Constant Streetcar Delays And Downtown Small Biz Killing Construction
The point of these parties is to distract from all of the biz that has been lost in the name of the toy train streetcar economic development scheme: Kansas City's Streetcar Tracks Completed, Project Moving Into Final Months
Idea, Tony: when the streetcar starts running go grab one of those radioactive overhead wires with a big metal rod.
ReplyDeleteIt'll put you out of your soulless misery.
100 people? An amazing turnout.
ReplyDeleteI spotted Russ Johnson's "I know fifty fabulous people who are going to force you to move forward with this" in the crowd. The rotund cherub club.
ReplyDeleteJames says the streetcar has played a major role in bringing $1.3 billion in development projects to Kansas City's downtown area.
ReplyDeleteHahaha! Developers must give a pre approved official talking points handbook out to Shitty Hall.
I would suggest that driving across the tracks and seeing how ruff they are would show you what a terrrable job has been done.
ReplyDeleteObviously they are cutting corners and costs all over the place on this thing-train wreck in the making and going el cheapo. Where is the money going?
ReplyDeleteSome sure steps to take for getting a KCMO subsidy for your real estate "project:
ReplyDeleteMention the streetcar was a key factor in making your decision.
Repeat the words density, diversity, and urbanism as often as possible in your proposal.
Talk about the excitement your friends around the country are expressing about KCMO becoming a vibrant hub for the arts and millenials.
Be sure to emphasize that you'd love to do the project with your own money, but the numbers just won't work for you.
For extra credit, throw in the fact that you hate Crosby Kemper.
Ka-ching!
Congratulations!
Clank clank clank, ding ding ding
ReplyDeleteClunk clunk clunk, ding ding dong
Next streetcar stop ladies and gentlemen, the word famous Cascone's Italian steaks and meatballs and Opera House Coffee and Food Emporium! That's right folks when it comes to getting you to where we need you to go.. KC is #!
All aboard!
Done? Try driving down Grand between 3rd and 5th streets. It WAS done but they came back 3 weeks ago and tore up and redid something from last year. How much extra did this add to the cost because the contractor screwed up and made a mistake?
ReplyDelete"Obviously they are cutting corners and costs all over the place on this thing-train wreck in the making and going el cheapo"
ReplyDeleteYou nailed that one. I doubt "kicking the tires" as Glover put it is going to impress the public either once they start noticing things.
Been in construction my entire life. Not impressed. How some of this work is passing inspection boggles my imagination. Of course it's no different then the hack job the city did on corner sewer drain replacements in our neighborhood. One which also had to be torn out and redone because the contractor didn't follow the exact specifications required. And the replacement looks like shit also.
ReplyDeleteJust have a look at who is on the Kansas City Streetcar Authority and calling all the shots and it becomes totally obvious why this thing is unfolding into what is likely to be a catastrophic mess more than an asset to KC.
ReplyDeleteThey can't even paint the stripes in alignment with the ramp correctly! HELLO?
ReplyDeleteBoondoggle City USA
Hey, I can't wait to ride it. Yippy! I'll grab some lunch, cruise around through downtown, it will be great!
ReplyDeleteThen I'll get in my car, drive back to my non KC home where the streets are well maintained, schools are good, a robbery would be a rare and probably once in a lifetime issue and my taxes are less. I won't have to pay the e-tax or watch my hard earned money go for one TIF after another and then start round two for the same company to keep them around. I will escape the downside of KC and venture in and out at will to enjoy the best of it.
Did it ever occur to you to find a way to share the pain with say, user fees or something? Did it ever just piss you off that every surrounding community has the same idea? Live the good life at home and enjoy what you provide for visitors benefit? I never can figure out why city government caters more to outsiders than they do people that actually live there. At least try to balance it some. Truth is, I feel guilty about all this so how about the next council at least trying to make things fair for your own citizens?
LOL....let me guess.
ReplyDeleteThe Toy Train is going to be run by the Water Department ?
That's about par for the course. What a fucking city. Definitely a destination. ROFLMFAO.
KCMO government is the place for big grandiose announcements, but no follow-up, supervision, and certainly no maintenance of anything once it's been built, usually shoddily.
ReplyDeleteStreets and bridges, airport terminals, fountains, parks, and on and on.
The streetcar will be poorly operated and maintained just like everything else, people will try it once for the novelty, be disappointed and unimpressed, drive and park on their next trip downtown.
But the streetcar is FREE, so folks who used to pay to ride buses and the handful of transit afficianodos and the 200 renters who voted for it in the first place will make occasion trips to the River Market to buy some tomatoes.
Proving that even a stopped clock is right at least twice a day, Cleaver called this "touristy frou frou", and he sure hit that one out of the park.
About 400 people attended last night's River Market Rail Rally.
ReplyDeleteLikely most of which took part in the original rigged election which began this sub par ongoing slow motion train wreck.
KCBizCare leader John Pajor says $1.3 billion in investment has occurred generally within TDD since Dec. 2012. Figures are "unscientific."
ReplyDeleteHahaha no kidding!!!!!!!!!!!
Anybody wanna' take odds or the over/under how many days it is before an assault, armed robbery or shooting takes place after it starts? Hmmm?
ReplyDelete17 days.
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