A couple of links chronicle recent conflicts that threaten suburban bliss for the fading middle-class . . .
East Overland Park residents upset with trash piling up in their neighborhoods
Suburban transit pipe dreams too . . . Or this week's wordy think piece in between about 50 adverts . .
Johnson County's beleaguered transit system may finally get new life
More in a bit . . .
East Overland Park residents upset with trash piling up in their neighborhoods
Suburban transit pipe dreams too . . . Or this week's wordy think piece in between about 50 adverts . .
Johnson County's beleaguered transit system may finally get new life
More in a bit . . .
I'm surprised there's anything left after the hoarders from MO and Dotte have made the rounds.
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ReplyDeleteSuburbs = pyramid scheme
ReplyDeleteThe Johnson County bus system has been a mostly empty enormous waste of money for decades and new "management" isn't going to make any difference as long as there are so few riders.
ReplyDeleteKCMO has lots of folks who don't have any transportation other than the bus system, which you can easily find out by riding on one of them.
The vast majority of residents of JoCo own cars and have to get around to live their lives.
If you ever see a JO bus with more than half a dozen people in it, it must be a charter.
And that's very unlikely to change.
Let's face it, the JoCo bus system was created so maids and other domestic help could get to their wealthy suburban employers. It was never designed to do anything else.
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ReplyDeleteThat's a good thing where I live, because out of place cars and/or those with MO or Dotte plates are always pulled over by police.
Truth is....all JoCo, south O.P., Leawood especially, mostly soccer moms getting seatbelt and no child restraint tickets and local teens getting speeding (school zone especially) tckets.
DeleteThe constant stream of Dotte and MO cars--housecleaners, nannies, lawnboys, grandparents and Catholic school staff/students aren't making problems.
As Johnson county continues to depopulate and get poorer, it will need more, not less transit. Unfortunately it was, and continues to be built for cars instead of for humans, and the effects of that anomalous and poor planning is being felt in the older parts of the county. While the rest of the country's suburbs have seen the folly of 1980s era planning and begun to adjust to reality, jock remains 30 years behind the times.
ReplyDeleteThe benefit of better mass transit in Johnson County is the reverse concept, in bringing workers from Kansas City to Johnson County, not the other way around. Companies needing to hire lower paid workers like data entry or other administrative type jobs often can't find staff in Johnson County for the jobs. The people willing to work those lower paid jobs often travel from Jackson County or Wyandotte County, and really need those jobs. They are often one car households and need public transit to get to a job in Overland Park or Lenexa from mid-town Kansas City, Independence, Grandview, KCK or other areas.
ReplyDeletethe majority of jobs of every stripe, professional, blue collar, etc. are on the Missouri side, with the biggest concentration of them in the core of KCMO. More people commute to KCMO from JoCo than vice versa. Facts are facts kiddos. even at Tonys Johnson county.
ReplyDelete1:18 so there ya go...good nuff to collect paychecks in KCMO then get yer ass back to the good schools and nice neighbors in KS. Yep, #5 on that (?) list?
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