TKC EXCLUSIVE AND BREAKING NEWS!!! FEAR THE KANSAS CITY TOY TRAIN STREETCAR RIVER MARKET BOTTLENECK!!!
Delaware St. in Kansas City's River Market neighborhood is going to be a disaster if/when streetcars ever arrive.
Fact is . . . There's not enough room for toy train streetcar, cars, bikes and pedestrian traffic in this tiny stretch of road . . . It could be the worst design FAIL in Kansas City history . . . Even worse than the city's dyslexic logo . . . Because at least that didn't cost $150 Million.
To wit . . .
TKC BLOG COMMUNITY FRIDAY FUN: WE'VE GOT PHOTO EVIDENCE AND TESTIMONY PROVING THAT DELAWARE IS A KANSAS CITY TOY TRAIN STREETCAR DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN!!!
Here's the word . . .
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"We have our streetcar tracks back. We have our overhead electrical lines back. And we’ve even added some new traffic congestion. These cars are sitting behind a FedEx truck parked in middle of Delaware which has been narrowed since the tracks were laid so no one can get around him. This will include the streetcar, assuming one is ever delivered."
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Easy fix. I'm sure they'll just ban cars the way that they're going to ban bikes from the tracks too.
ReplyDeleteThat street comes to a halt when anyone tries to back into one of those new parking spots too.
ReplyDeleteThe KCMO urban futurist crowd has it ideas all backward.
ReplyDeleteIn actual cities, density and inconvenience are created by large crowds of pedestrians and vehicles and mass transit becomes the most practical means of transportation.
In downtown KCMO the notion is that if you CREATE fake inconvenience and traffic and parking issues, you've made yourself into a real city with a big-time "urban experience". When actually all you've managed to do is make most people who get caught in this crap even one time that there are many many other places in the metro to do what few things downtown has to offer and who decide that their most recent visit will be their last.
Of course, if you're from small town mid-west USA, you can dream that this is all just like 5th Avenue and Broadway in New York.
The downtown kiddie corps amusement park.
I just got home from DC and I witnessed an F250 parked on the streetcar tracks unloading construction material immediately upon arrival to H street.
ReplyDeleteI just got home from DC and I witnessed an F250 parked on the streetcar tracks unloading construction material immediately upon arrival to H street.
ReplyDeleteI just got home from DC and I witnessed an F250 parked on the streetcar tracks unloading construction material immediately upon arrival to H street.
ReplyDeleteBreaking News: The Josh Dugger of KC Blogging, Tony "Buttholio" Botello rail for the 843 consecutive day about the Choo Choo that is being built, will be delivered and will run, even if you could cover the distance quicker on a borrowed skateboard....regardless, it done.
ReplyDeleteNow if Buttholio actually paid ANY fucking taxes, I could understand his constant bitch. But a allowance from MOM is not taxable under current IRS statutes. We know the allowance is well under the required reporting limits.
Dig thru that pile of Candice Swanepoel posters and old Hustlers in the corner and get your engineers hat on Buttholio. You will be begging to drive the Toy Choo Choo. Alonzo said he would collect fares, with his ususal fee of 80%, of course, and Alonzo will jack Buthollio off as he pull the Toy Train horn and yells "Chooooo Choooooo" as they head for the Union Station turnaround to meet up with no other than their UMKC alumnus, and fellow queer, Georgie Guestello.
Jackass KCC ^^^^^^
ReplyDeleteToot toot, 6:55, sour grapes hoot. Major clunk.
ReplyDeleteBack in parking will prove to be a disaster in itself.
ReplyDeleteNobody can back in to a diagonal space competently. Nobody. It's just not something any driver had exerience doing.
That, alone, will paralyze traffic, including the trolley, once the trolley is running.
Delaware Street reflects the reality that this entire project was planned and designed by imbeciles.
There is no question that "on street" parking on Delaware will have to go. The City owes it to the neighborhood to construct, convenient parking lots in the immediate area to replace the lost street parking.
ReplyDeleteThey're not imbeciles, 7:32, they are very smart, but devious, profiteers. We need to stockpile some tar and feathers so they will be handy when needed.
ReplyDeleteWhile the rest of the world fights to get rid of overhead wires, CKMO is putting those ugly things up.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry about wires! Even Google strung it's high techy super duper futuristic fiber wires on the telepone poles. It's the future!
ReplyDeleteSomewhere, a baby having a tantrum looks dignified compared to this "exclusive and breaking news."
ReplyDeleteAnd somewhere else, a baby makes a comment on a blog and doesn't have it shown up THREE FUCKING TIMES, Stalder.
Here is a blog that actually gets something right.
ReplyDeleteThat intersection is a mess already, and there are no streetcars actually operating. Cyclists are already endangered by the tracks alone.
Pedestrian traffic will be even more complicated with the new electric whizbangs threatening to crunch them. It will be interesting to see how much noise is generated when the streetcars rub steel on steel turning that corner and the one farther west (Delaware?).
Now way I'm moving into that downtown hellhole. Purgatory sounds more appealing at this point.
ReplyDeleteWhile I did pen the @ 6:55 comment, I derive a serious hard on every time I get the opportunity to smack around a Mexcriment over this Toy Train.
ReplyDeleteIn a moment of seriousness, all jesting aside. this Toy Train idea is a fucking joke. As many of you have rightly stated, what the fuck ? A 1900's model street car that runs two miles. Who the fuck goes to Crown Center and Union Station other than blacks and queers going to they Mayors ghetto gatherings.
Nope, this will go down in the history of Kansas City as one of the biggest cluster fucks ever. The main riders will be the dick beaters going from Rivermarket to Bazookas to get a handjob looking at gay porn.
What a waste of money. Morons.
Don't worry the great and almighty DaveGAYCMO and twitter giant Staubio from Norfolk Negraskee know what they are doing! These are the worlds foremost experts on Streetcars! They even offer walking tours so you can see the blessed rail! And transit drinks!!
ReplyDeleteThe reigning worst design fail in KC history is the Cleaver stoplights on the felony freeway.
ReplyDeleteShut up bitching! You slugs in the city sat on your fat asses while all this was happening and did . Suck it up, open those pocket books and have a KC gay old time on the black hole express.
ReplyDeleteThe ability of Tony to get you "Denizens" to continue to bitch about the same old, humorless, shit, day of day, speaks volumes.
ReplyDeleteEbola is coming!
Marathon soon!
Jeebuz.
"Here is a blog that actually gets something right."
ReplyDeleteCould you give us a link? I mean, this isn't it. This one just seems moronic.
Hey, I wonder how many city employees were on that website for people wanting to have an affair?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.examiner.net/article/20150820/NEWS/150829987/1994/NEWS
ReplyDeleteThe train is coming.
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20-Aug-2015
Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Tran
Item 3.01 Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Transfer of Listing.
On August 17, 2015, The McClatchy Company (the "Company") was notified by the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") that the average closing price of the Company's common stock had fallen below $1.00 per share over a period of 30 consecutive trading days, which is the minimum average share price for continued listing on the NYSE under Rule 802.01C of the NYSE Listed Company Manual.
As required by the NYSE, the Company will timely notify the NYSE that it intends to cure the deficiency and to return to compliance with the NYSE continued listing requirement. Under NYSE rules, the Company has six months following receipt of the notification to regain compliance with the minimum share price requirement. The Company can regain compliance at any time during the six-month cure period if the Company's common stock has a closing share price of at least $1.00 on the last trading day of any calendar month during the period and also has an average closing share price of at least $1.00 over the 30-trading day period ending on the last trading day of that month or on the last day of the cure period. In addition, in the event that the Company determines that, if necessary, it will cure the price condition by taking action that will require approval of its shareholders, it will so notify the NYSE, in which case the Company must obtain the shareholder approval by no later than its next annual meeting, and must implement the action promptly thereafter.
The notice has no immediate impact on the listing of the Company's common stock, which will continue to trade on the NYSE under the symbol "MNI". The Company intends to actively monitor the closing share price for its common stock and will consider available options, including equity-based actions to resolve the deficiency and regain compliance with Rule 802.01C of the NYSE Listed Company Manual. These actions will include the Company's stock repurchase program, as described below.
So McClatchy owns the streetcar? or to put it another way, WHO FUCKING CARES???
ReplyDelete10:16: Toot toot. Another moronic hoot. Clunk.
ReplyDeleteWOW!!! TRAFFIC CONGESTION? IN AN AMERICAN METROPOLITAN CITY? SCANDAL!!! BLASPHEMY!!! HEADS WILL ROLL OVER THIS!!! BLOOD WILL BE SPILLED!!!
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See 6:35 AM for a bitch slap of reality.
DeleteAn employee of Kansas City's City Action Center died of laughter today after a head injury caused when a caller complained about a delivery truck blocking traffic temporarily on a River Market street.
ReplyDeleteWitnesses said the employee fell our of his chair after hearing the pointless missive.
There is really no problem. If the city runs into issues they will simple spend another $150 million on street improvements. Sheesh! All this drama.
ReplyDelete12:25: Congrats! Yet another moronic hoot. Two in one day. You're on a roll! Toot. Clunk. Toot. Clunk.
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Doesn't ever become funny, and is far too pointlessly incomprehensible to be effective. New material please.
DeleteA relaxing way to ride up or down Main Street U.S.A. is to take a seat in one of the new Horse-Drawn Streetcars.
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Thgen we can hear the sniveling from across the State line.
Wow....lots of Sly guys and KC Star gals must be staying late at the office today posting all the "we love all the things that Sly done did (sic)" comments today. Or, maybe it's our fabulous PD Chief twittering in his support from his F-18 rear seat....on a side note Lord knows that the only way the guy would ever be seen north of the river.
ReplyDeleteYAWN......
3:38: Clunk.
ReplyDelete3:58: Toot toot. Illiterate hoot. Failed attempt to be CLEVAR Your teachers or GED instructor in rural wherever must be sooooooooo proud.
ReplyDelete^^^ I second: all in favor?
ReplyDeleteIt is not a problem. They will put in signal lights that stop all traffic from three directions while the car goes around the corner. It just means that traffic will have to move slower.
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