CELEBRATE!!! AFTER KANSAS CITY PAYS MILLIONS FOR THE DOWNTOWN TOY TRAINS STREETCAR: THE RIDES WILL BE FREE!!!
Kansas City eco-devo scheming continues this afternoon . . .
KC Biz Journal: "Rides on the streetcar line planned for downtown Kansas City will be free. The Kansas City Streetcar Authority on Wednesday voted unanimously not to charge a fare for the 2-mile route, which would operate on Main Street between the River Market and Union Station."
And so . . .
DEMOCRACY IS BEING SUBVERTED IN THIS DESPICABLE KANSAS CITY TOY TRAIN STREETCAR SCHEME IN EXCHANGE FOR A FREE RIDE FOR A FEW BLOCKS!!!
Let's not forget that this deal will cost Kansas City HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS for years to come . . . So, there really is no such thing as a free ride. In reality, Hitchhikers get a better deal and only get raped once not every year for the foreseeable future.
I'll be fun!
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding me?? Not even a buck?? So let me get this straight....we the taxpayers of kc build and maintain a 100 million dollar toy train so tourists and people from johnson county can ride for free?? What a load of bullshit.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the status of the talk regarding using TIF for this? While it falls outside the legal constraints imposed upon TIF projects, I'm sure they'll try to ram it through nonetheless. I smell jail time for somebody when this thing goes the way of the Sprint Center and the P&L.
ReplyDeleteIn the NIGGER world, everything is free! See what Obama has brought to us? Mo free shit!!
ReplyDeleteNot only will there not be jail time; there won't even be anyone held the slightest bit accountable, just like is always the case in KCMO.
ReplyDeleteBy then the current electeds at city hall will be running for something else and the city will be all gaga over yet another brand new bright shiny thing.
Maybe the new downtown hotel, or spending tax money in some other way that might fund the latest harebrained dream of some other downtown booster.
Just keep paying up and the swells will keep all the bizarre ideas coming your way.
Any great ideas come back from the Austin trip?
Nothing in this world is free anymore.
ReplyDeleteIf you believe that it is then you're a part of the problem no doubt.
If this logic makes any sense then we ought to get paid for parking at the sports complex...sheesh!
ReplyDeleteClang clang goes the trolley!!!
ReplyDeleteSoo let me get this straight.
ReplyDeleteKCMO is going broke. There are billions needed in infrastructure repairs and for basic city services.
Now they want to spen $100 million up front, plus $2+ million/year on a 2 mile trolley that will generate ZERO revenue?
Yeah, that makes sense.
Don't ever stop Tony.
ReplyDeleteNice job.
Thanks, Tony!
ReplyDeleteSee... This is the same state that will vote akin... You're all fucking stupid and reap what you sow...
ReplyDeleteFuck you, you kansas dickhole. Let's not even get started on the dumb moves of kansas politics. Let's ban a statue cause I don't like boobs, let's ban christmas lights cause they hurt my eyes. Kansas people are all the same, fucktards
Deleteride da bus
ReplyDeleteWow. You folks need to get out of KC once in a while. Other cities do this in their downtown area as a way to generate interest and ridership so that the system can expand. Portland did it for years to great acclaim.
ReplyDeleteThe key word is DID.
DeleteIts not a good thing for Kansas City unless TKC hates it. Find something else to sensationalize. This topic is getting old. Even Alonzo is more entertaining than this.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the terms "great acclaim" and "downtown Kansas City" should ever appear in the same sentence.
ReplyDeleteThe past CEO fo the Kauffman Foundation recently said that "Kansas City is the most undynamic town in America". And if you've ever tried to deal with the little band of insiders who jerk the council around and make sure all the money goes their way, you'd find just how right he is.
Downtown KCMO is a deserted joke propped up by millions of taxpayers' dollars and as the violence continues to spread, it will become even less attractive than it is now.
And all the pom poms and wild claims can't compete with the basic arithmetic of failure.
All aboard!
So who benefits from this train? The Crown Center hotels and the Power and Light District merchants. So maybe they should subsidize this free train. Otherwise why wouldn't it travel south to Westport and the Plaza instead?
ReplyDeleteWho benefits from this train? Everyone that lives in KCMO. The streetcar will result in more economic development than anything in the area with maybe exception to the racetrack in the Dotte. I can't help but picture some of you naysayers in your Chiefs jersey and zumba pants that likely voted for the sales tax to support the stadiums and the economic development of a Taco Bell sitting here trying to make an argument against streetcar. All I know is I wish I owned property downtown. Going to be a gold mine when this thing gets built. Any of you idiotic propoerty owners that do not think this is a good thing please put a for sale sign up. i will be calling.
ReplyDeleteYou're delusional, and your thought process is going to cost the taxpayers millions. This will not, in anyway, effect growth of downtown kc. You think a streetcar will do what the sprint center hasn't done? You think a streetcar will just magically clean up downtown and sweep away all those nasty homeless folks, robbers and rapists that just mill around all night? You're a fool man
DeleteIt is a good idea.
ReplyDeleteLook for a bunch of humpin' and pukin' on the thing on weekend nights. Free = trashed people and troublemakers, what's the ride along security budget?
ReplyDeleteI'll tell you who'll ride the "toy train". It'll be nothing but NIGGERS, with no place to go and a free ride to get there. Have fun!
ReplyDeleteWe're all being taken for a ride, and it ain't gonna be free!
ReplyDeleteI is still waitsing for my frees big screen TVs that obamas promised me.
ReplyDelete10:12 is dead on.
ReplyDeleteToy Train riders will be an uneasy mix of tourists, convention types and homeless folk (since the ride is free), staring confused out the windows as they travel slowly from Crown Center, past parking lots, to arrive at a still mostly empty P&L District.
The Busses already do all of this faster, and more efficiently. Including Plaza & Westport.
@11:38PM My property that sits right on the toy train line on Grand will be for sale on the first day of construction. If you think it's going to be a goldmine please come by and make me an offer for my building. I plan to move my business and all of it's tax paying jobs out of downtown KC and over the bridge to NKC.
ReplyDeleteAll you toy train lovers who think this is going to be such hot stuff put your money where your mouth is and buy some downtown property now.
Jokes on you, Sue. NKC will be clamoring for a streetcar extension within 5 years.
ReplyDeleteWonder if you'll be writing another editorial when your building sells for 3x what you paid for it.
And when I move to NKC and take my big fat capital gain with me, any taxes due will NOT be paid to KCMO.
ReplyDeleteBy the time NKC gets a streetcar I'll be retired, long gone, and out of the area and out of the US.
Where's this buyer who is going to pay me 3x what I paid for this building? If I have such a prime piece of real estate why hasn't anyone come by to make an offer pre streetcar, while the price is still lower? Oh wait, could it be because real estate speculators and developers don't think properties will go up in value but will go down?