Adding up streetcar numbers, check the money line:
"The streetcar offers a more expensive way to move people along a short, 2.2-mile route that Kansas City’s bus system already serves."
Read more: Streetcars: Suddenly a (Poorly Performing) Transportation Service
"The streetcar offers a more expensive way to move people along a short, 2.2-mile route that Kansas City’s bus system already serves."
Read more: Streetcars: Suddenly a (Poorly Performing) Transportation Service
The Troost MAX route is over 10 times longer, and yet barely tops the streetcar ridership?
ReplyDeleteDo you have to pay to ride Troost MAX?
ReplyDeleteHow much was spent to start Troost MAX service?
What do the hipsters think?
I hear Rex plans to Rickroll us in his next installment.
ReplyDeleteNot the best work from these guys.
ReplyDeleteThe Show Me Institute's free market policies haven't had much luck when it comes to urban planning especially when the public is swayed by perception. Basically people think the bus is for hoodrats. Even arguments for the streetcar's shortcomings are being used to justify the expansion to 51st & Brookside.which will probably begin before anyone realizes it.
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