Take a look at what is most likely the DEFINITIVE clip calling out toy train streestcar scams across the nation that PERFECTLY describes our local predicament.
Reason . . .
The Secret Scam of Streetcars: How to Sell a 100-Year-Old Technology as the Future of Transportation
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So you're telling me that the mayor was wrong and there is independent information to back up his mistake? Surely not!
ReplyDeleteIncompetence in Washington, D.C.? Shocking.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to think Sly & Co. have their s**t together. I'm not crazy about how they financed this deal or all the construction on Main Street, but light rail will be a good thing for KC.
There's really no secret to this at all.
ReplyDeleteWhen you elect people to city government who have no understanding or appreciation for public policy, no real interest in the boring everyday responsibilities of elected municipal office like streets, sewers, and public safety, and no ideas themselves, it's not surprising that an endless line of folks shows up at their office with all kinds of things to sell so "they won't be left behind".
The streetcar was just this year's REALLY BIG THING, and there'll be many more scams in the years ahead.
The urban futurists, bond attorneys, construction firms, planners, grifters, and assorted hangers-on concoct one Kool Aid after another to pour into the waiting heads of the empty vessels at 12th and Oak.
And the new gang is just as ready to spend YOUR money.
The innovation capital of the USA.
Hahahahahahaha
Plus niggers be killin' white girls now? When will we address the NIGGER PROBLEM?
ReplyDeleteStreetcar Neighbors - "i am making the argument because 90% of my trips are within that 2-mile corridor. i'm not the only one, either. frankly, i've sample the rest of the metro extensively and there's little left to see of any interest... especially if you are on foot. pockets of promise with vast stretches of boringness in between.
ReplyDeleteThe TDD is targeted, just like the route, to get KC investing in transit. Screw the teams and conventions."
You don't need to be a MENSAN or use a lot of Tommy Osborne Nebrasky Football quotes to see that this this is going to be an absolute disaster.
ReplyDeleteBut you already knew that didn't you, HARDCHARGER?
The extension price tag will be around measly $350 million. TDD or some other method that could avoid a city-wide vote. 3.5 miles hitting all the bars and clubs and we downtowner's are set.
ReplyDeleteThink about it, they could have bought a lot of people cars for this money.
ReplyDeleteThey bought some people real nice Jeeps!
DeleteI'm in deep, physical pain. Someone used the magic word again and it really hurts..
ReplyDeleteLook everyone, I called people names! Herf, derf!
ReplyDeleteSorry to disappoint you there Grande Taco Sombrero......here in Norway the trains are full, and running on schedule.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, they are filled with families with light skinned, blonde headed kids that are well mannered....not yelling and swinging from the hang bars like primates in the jungle.
The Bear was in a convenience store and there were kids actually "buying" cookies....not stealing them, shooting the store clerk, and then burning the store.
Well, about to depart. Ya'll have a great time this Independence Day there in Killa City.
Remember, if you hear gunfire, hit the deck, draw, and return fire in the direction of the "hoodrattis urbanis feralis". Chances are real good you will hit one of the shooters. If that fails, push your daughter of wife (if she looks real good) out to the wild boons. Chances are they will immediately be distracted, begin to fondle and groupe the woman while making shrill sounds and jumping like a epileptic primate.
damn.....had to get the Bear translator out to log on.
ReplyDeleteKansas City: Ready for the 1940s.
ReplyDelete"Independent" "research" from Reason Magazine.
ReplyDeleteHahahhahahahhahahahahahahah!
Precious.
How old is automobile technology by the way?
Don't forget that the KCMO streetcar is not about transporting folks, but rather the purpose is to revitalize the flabby downtown economies.
ReplyDeleteAnd even as office buildings are being converted to apartments because there's been no commercial demand for decades, and the streetcar enthusiasts are mostly 20-somethings with no money, downtown will become a hotbed of economic activity.
ReplyDeleteAnd all on borrowed money and taxpayer-provided free stuff.
It's little wonder the Star is such a big booster of Sly. Their understanding of both business and arithmetic is the same.
Lots of that automotive engineering is old, sure -- four tires, hinged doors and and wiper blades! So, what more ya need?
ReplyDeleteNow we got GPS, handsfree talk, heated seats, and more.
Feet on pedals, hands on wheels, eyes on the road......soon that will be lost arts.
Driverless cars, -- we got 'em already.
They're the ones with a total lunatic TEXTING while at the wheel !!!
9:16: Can't address the message, so go after the messenger. Toot toot. Always a hoot!
ReplyDeleteBTW, Reason magazine is libertarian. They go after all hypocrisy--the drug war, gay discrimination, crony capitalism (including streetcars), etc. You might want to give it a read, horse shit boy.
Take your horseshit and go!!! Stay out of my downtown!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe should have known that one of OBAMA'S people was conning us into spending money on worthless stuff.
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