TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! IMPENDING TRAFFIC DISASTER THREATENS DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY: MOTORISTS CANNOT PASS TOY TRAIN STREETCAR!!!
Amid the long-delayed testing process for the Kansas City Streetcar, a tragic fact threatening traffic throughout the loop has been uncovered that threatens to derail hope for the toy train that has cost this cowtown more than $125 million and counting so far.
Checkit:
CARS CANNOT PASS THE SLOW MOVING DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY TOY TRAIN STREETCAR!!!
Moreover . . .
OUR KICK-ASS TKC EXPERTS, INSIDERS AND DENIZENS DEMAND CHANGE TO THIS RULE AND WARN OF MASSIVE GRIDLOCK INSIDE THE LOOP IF THIS PROBLEM IS NOT ADDRESSED!!!
Here is the word from a KICK-ASS TKC TIPSTER who has leveled-up to the ranks of BAD-ASS TKC TIPSTER given this vivid description of impending doom for Downtown Kansas City traffic:
"Investigate the no passing double yellow line on the entire route.
"The four trains will stop every two blocks. One lane traffic each way center turn lane with double yellow line. Will NOT to be able to pass the train once behind it.
"Also delivery truck have no place to off load produce for restaurants. Can't park on side and center turn lane suggestion puts workers and other drivers at risk."
Our blog community has always wondered why the toy train is pictured ALONE on Downtown streets in the design photos . . . Inside the loop traffic can get hectic and the images of the toy train never seem realistic.
As for the truck issue . . . The KC Streetcar teem has been chiding delivery drivers all week.
Sadly, these transit mavens mistakenly think they're more important than beer:
But more importantly . . .
THE KANSAS CITY TOY TRAIN STREETCAR NO PASSING LAW THREATENS TO DECIMATE DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY TRAFFIC AND PROVIDES A GOOD REASON TO AVOID THE LOOP ALTOGETHER!!!
Denizens of our blog community have been posing questions about the topic for months and now the toy train crew have finally answered:
"Yes, passing a streetcar is prohibited & we will include that in our upcoming video PSAs & safety roll out. Thx"
Sadly, no other media is putting this fun fact on blast and it's a HORRIBLE LAW that could change the entire landscape of Downtown Kansas City and back up traffic for miles.
Our blog community is FIRST to demand a change to this horrible bit of planning before havoc ensues on local streets AND because we're the only blog dedicated to fighting for driver's rights in Kansas City. Natch.
Developing . . .
Bad planning from Staubio and team Sly
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ReplyDeleteNo way, this has MESA BOY written all over it.
This has happened in other cities as well. What's funny is that the streetcar might actually drive away more people than it ever lured. This could be avered if the streetcar proponents were just honest about what they really want: They want to elminate traffic from cars on the route. But they knew if they just came out and said that, there would be outrage. Instead, I guess these people think it's better to create traffic jams and risk the lives of delivery drivers trying to earn a living. Thanks a lot!
ReplyDeleteDon't blame me, I voted for the General!
ReplyDeleteThis toy train project is a major league joke. It make$ Kansas City look like a cow town. Oh! Wait it already is one.
ReplyDeleteThe best laid plans of Mensa and men... .
ReplyDeleteThe streetcars blocked/slowed traffic in the 50s... not allowed to drive around them then either..And, if there's a wreck in front of them, or anything stalled on the tracks.. the streetcars can't go around either. It's good though that riding is free, more places for the homeless to keep warm.
ReplyDeleteWhy is this such a surprise? All you had to do was look down Main and you could see this was going to happen when they started building it. On top of this the city wanted to or did cram in a dedicated bike lane. While the rest of KC burns keep on playin' that fiddle, Sly.
ReplyDeleteWhen they originally planned this, they were overly confident that they could avoid fender benders with passing traffic. Now that they've seen the cost of frequent dings and scratches on streetcars in other cities from impatient motorists and illegally parked vehicles, they're getting overly protective of their multi-million dollar baby.
ReplyDeleteI said it two years ago: divert all car traffic off of Main Street and make it a pedestrian only Corridor. Not ideal, but the best way to maximize our investment. Emulate the 16th Street Mall in Denver, build some new fountains, some stadium seating, and promote walk-ability downtown. Don't attempt to expand streetcar until these changes have been made to Main Street and had time to be studied. Consider bus stations at either end of the streetcar line to avoid a billion dollar boondoggle of rail transit. Grow our transportation network with buses.
So it's a billion, now, is it? Why stop there, stadler? Why not a bajillion? Or a jazillion?
DeleteTell us about how it "stole" the money for sewers and fire stations and cops, again!
We love fairy tales here at tonys fact free zone!
Remember folks, as HARDCHARGER told us... it's not about transportation, it's about COMMERCE!!!
ReplyDeleteBully-boy MENSAN has got this whole thing ciphered out, just trust in his plan folks.
Will FD be test raising the ladders at overhead wire sites? Seems kinda important to allow trial runs, especially on the narrower streets. What/who cuts the "juice" in the wires while FD is engaged near them?
ReplyDeleteit's already happening in the River Market. The timing of the stoplights has been changed and the cars back up so far down the block no traffic can move. I predict even more daily accidents as people WILL cross the double line to pass a stopped streetcar and be hit by oncoming traffic. The streets they put the streetcar on are too narrow for this huge monstrosity.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats laud train, claiming easier , safer access for urban skolar car-jackers.
ReplyDeleteFACT,,, PRAY THAT THERE IS NOT A HIGHRISE FIRE ALONG TOY TRAIN ROUTE....FIRE DEPT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RAISE THEIR TRUCK LADDRERS AT LEAST TO THE SIXTH FLOOR OF A HIGH RISE APARTMENT OR OTHER STRUCTURE...BECAUSE OF TRAINS OVERHEAD WIRES...IT IS A POSSIBILITY PEOPLE WILL DIE..........DUMBFUCK POLITICIANS AND MAYOR YOUR A FUCKING IDIOT
ReplyDeleteHopefully this will be a learning experience about the expansion.
ReplyDeleteThis will hamper everything from mail /ups delivery to basic deliveries to run yiur business.
This was brought to their attention a year ago.
The teams just shrugged and said "oh well, deal with it "
I predict this will kill non corporate restaurants and small businesses.
DENIZENS OF OUR BLOG COMMUNITY HAVE LATELY BEEN COMPLAINING THAT THE THREAT OF THE TOY TRAIN (HA, HA) IS GREATER THAN THE THREAT OF GLOBAL WARMING.
ReplyDeleteALL 14 DENIZENS COLLECTIVELY CHANT VERSE FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS!
I have been against this project from Day 1, but the unrelenting sniveling that comes from the "TKC Blog Community" is providing greater entertainment than anything related to the project.
I make that last point in response to the fart sniffer guy (again.....ha,ha).
Tony wants you to believe that this blog attracts attention from CH and that more comments will influence decisions. He lost that standing when this blog was taken over by anonymous bigots, cum guys, and OMG, a guy with an av called "Superdave" (yet again....ha,ha).
Again, thanks for the entertainment value here. It has saved me the price of one of those toy ant farms where children get to watch insects go about their work. On the other hand, if you think for a moment that anything related to this site is of meaning, wake the fuck up. You even can use ALL CAPS ^^^^^^, and dilute yourself into believing that makes a difference.
Carry on lemmings. Make sure you tune into Ruckus this week where you get the opportunity to bitch about relevant locals who actually make their point of view know through use of their names and images.
9:57: Why do you think the Hardchargers were so set on getting the expansion passed BEFORE the "starter yeast," er, I mean line was in? Once people see this disaster, there's no way any of them will ant it in their backyards (which is where it would be in parts of Brookside).
ReplyDelete10:00: Given that global warming may not even exist (and its "threats" may well be benefits), you may be right.
10:00 get back to work, you just got there forty minutes ago and your first nap is an hour away.
ReplyDeleteYou sound like you're "DILUTE" alright even before your two hour beer lunch preceding that afternoon hour long nap. So nice to know city staffer chiming right in as expected. Guess you silly RELEVANT goof just forgot to sign this with your NAME AND IMAGE. Yeah, you ACTUALLY MAKE A POINT.
You all act like Main Street is the only north-south street downtown. If you want to drive and not have to worry about a streetcar, believe it or not there are streets. Two of them are only a block away!
ReplyDeleteMain's not even all that busy. Plus all the niggers are over on Grand and Broadway.
ReplyDeleteTraffic isn't the problem. Niggers still are.
Put the mirror down 10AM, it pisses off the denizens.
ReplyDeleteChoo-choo is looking like a plot to force more businesses and restaurants to move to the land of wide-open parking and easy loading zones: Joco. (Plus which, much fewer parking-lot muggings.)
ReplyDelete10:00 makes me feel less important.
ReplyDeleteMust be a libtard, mensa boy, or a city hall employee!
I am too important.
Now, children, play nice.
ReplyDeleteDisaster in the making, thanks Sly.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fucking nightmare this has become.
ReplyDeleteToo fucking late, people. Enjoy the Toy Train debacle shitstorm!
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely not the end of the world (as pointed out above, there are other N/S streets), but the traffic issues on Main and in the River Market are indicative of how the City has approached this project all along. The traffic engineers either saw the impending issues and the City chose not to address them at the time so as not to "make waves", or they missed the potential issues and will be scrambling to fix the problem once the streetcars are up and running. As with most things these days at City Hall, it's either dishonesty or incompetence.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Johnson's new traffic consultancy can provide the City with options to address the problems. I'm sure it wouldn't cost the City more than a few hundred thousand dollars to Russ (and an apology from everyone for not recognizing his immense intellect and appointing him president of the KCATA).
ReplyDeleteI agree it's totally a mess. And we haven't even seen what's going to happen when we have winter storms along the route of the streetcar where delivery trucks and cars will have less area to drive or park. Top speed of the streetcar when possible is only 45 mph. The Max buses already travel faster than that on Main street, Brookside Boulevard and Wornall. Bus Rapid Transit is getting better and better while fixed rail streetcars are technology of the past.
ReplyDeleteThe maximum speed limit on main is less than 45 mph, you fucking dolt.
DeleteMaybe they can take out the seats and use the Toy Train as delivery vehicles for beer and food for downtown and city market restaurants and bars. Haha!
ReplyDeleteThis will be super-inconvenient, almost oppressively so, for the 10s of cars on Main Street at any given time! Especially the 3 or 4 suburbanites who can figure out how to take any of the other low-traffic, wide open, huge and totally uncongestes thoroughfares cross crossing downtown!
ReplyDeleteSomebody call the FBI!
I agree with above. City Hall is either dishonest or incompetent about how the streetcar will affect traffic. Every other city that has a streetcar has it on its own dedicated lane. So that it is not affected by car traffic. The whole point of having fixed rail transit is for it to be rapid & unaffected by traffic. Otherwise you just created a fixed lane bus at 100x the cost. That is the only way to justify the cost.
ReplyDeleteSince its here for at least 20+ years now, might as well make the best of it and just shutdown car traffic on Main and make it pedestrian/green space area. Maybe BNIM can find something there too. Make the best of two bad situations.
This might be the most ill-conceived plan I've ever seen in KC and we've had some doozies. The mayor of KC is borderline incompetent.
The nearly empty KCATA buses no longer go up and down Main Street. They have moved over to Wyandotte Street. Wyandotte is not well suited for large buses. The solution maybe to make it once again a one way street.
ReplyDeleteWhatever genius thought it would be a good idea to put a streetcar down the narrow streets in the River Market should be hanged. Once this area becomes the park and ride lot for the GSA workers at the other end to be able to have free parking, the River Market as a place to do business is doomed. Just rename this area River Market Streetcar Parking Garage.
ReplyDeleteAnybody want to start a pool for how many years it is until we can pave over the new unused streetcar tracks?
ReplyDeleteSelf driving cars will make the street cars and taxi drivers instantly obsolete. A city could buy a fleet of cars that could be called by mobile phone for point to point service, eliminating the need for fixed rail transportation. In ten years or less this will all be meaningless.
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ReplyDelete3:34: The tracks will remain--just like those at 75th & Wornall. They will be the Mensa boy memorial.
ReplyDeleteCity could have purchased 100 state of the art bus's to serve the area for the price of this jalopy on rails.
ReplyDelete^Fuck yeah they could have. They could have buses crawling up every ass in this city for what the bus on rails called a streetcar cost. There could be buses serving the thousands of homeowners up north, far south, new routes going to new places. But instead, we have a bus on rails that can't deviate its route, can't change, can't adjust, and can't expand. What a brilliant idea!
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ReplyDeleteWhat did ya expect from a bunch of Clueless Degenerate Brain-dead Liberals at KCMO City Hall, they couldn't run a frickin lemonade stand, without screwing it up !!!
FUCK their piece of shit Toy Train !!!