SHOCK!!! TKC TOLD YOU SO!!! KANSAS CITY NEWSIE STEVE VOCKRODT TOUTS TRAGIC IDEA TO CLOSE DOWN TOY TRAIN MAIN STREET TO DRIVER TRAFFIC!!!
Social media is mostly an echo chamber were good and bad ideas die . . . But a respect local newsie confirms an effort that TKC FIRST KICK-ASS NEWS noted before any other media outlet.
Remember that earlier in the year we talked about the clandestine plan to kick all car drivers from the stretch of Kansas City street.
Today, Kansas City's favorite 2nd favorite Pitch reporter claims he's just throwing it out there . . .
Let's not forget that our blog community noted that The Pitch is having problems paying its bills so working for corporate interests on this one isn't so far fetched in the last days of print media . . .
Check the damage . . .
The illusion of a casual notion . . .
Justification . . .
Obstacles to overcome . . .
Now, admittedly, this post has a bit of mustard on it if only because we get tired of some of you d-bags claiming that Vockrodt is a genius just because he writes really great round-up stories and the fact that he's tall, white and wears glasses.
But more importantly . . .
THIS CONFIRMS TKC FIRST REPORTING THAT THE TOY TRAIN STREETCAR WAR AGAINST MAIN STREET TRAFFIC IS ALREADY UNDERWAY!!!
Most Kansas City denizens realize that these ideas NEVER get casually thrown out there and this "notion" is part of a bigger scheme.
Developing . . .
I'm for it. This will save Kansas City. Just can't wait to read about it in the star!
ReplyDeletethis is bad news, not because of the implausible idea but because sly's office is now looking to have reporters outside of the star get their message out there.
ReplyDeleteI've been advocating this since at least 2013. Everyone knows I think the streetcar was a gerrymandered, dishonest, over priced bus that does nothing to improve transit along Main Street and very little to attract private developers, but the fact remains that we have a streetcar now.
ReplyDeleteIn order to maximize our investment in rail transit, we should divert vehicles away from the track to reduce transit times, traffic congestion, and damage to our streetcars. This will also offer an opportunity for small retail shops and walk up restaurants or delivery services an opportunity to flourish. Walnut and Baltimore are both under utilized and could easily handle the traffic diverted away from Main Street. Anyone who drives Downtown has known to avoid Main Street for the past two years anyway.
Our focus should be to develop the starter line to make it the best it can possibly be, so that when we are inevitably faced with the decision to extend the streetcar to UMKC via the Plaza, that it can be a citywide discussion rather than another TDD scam that disenfranchises taxpayers outside the Main Street corridor. The Plaza and UMKC belong to the tax payers of Kansas City and we should not be excluded in decisions that impact them.
Smart drivers are already avoiding Main St. It should be reserved for streetcars and delivery trucks. Traffic on Broadway has increased significantly and City Hall needs to get street parking removed so there are 2 lanes of traffic each direction on Broadway. I know the bar owners on Broadway will not be happy, but they are another victims of the ill-conceived trolley.
ReplyDelete10 years from now after the Streetcar has destroyed Kansas City, a new City Council will discover this fabulous people mover called a bus that allows cars, pedestrians and mass transit to exist peacefully on City streets.
ReplyDeletestreetcar = ruin of kansas city.
ReplyDeleteYes let's just modify vehicle traffic because of this $108 million half ass shit design we are stuck with. Just to shut up the coddled idiots who are going to use this thing.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! We need to be like Boulder! But we can call it Sly Avenue! Hows that for sharp and snappy!
ReplyDeleteWhat big City closes their Main Street to traffic? I'll wait.
ReplyDeleteThere needs to be an investigation of all the assessment fraud going on in the Downtown Streetcar TDD district first.
ReplyDeleteNeed to close Troost !
ReplyDeleteLet's build a wall on Troost and let libturds pay for it
ReplyDeleteAfter just three and a half days looks like the City needs to purchase duct tape and bailing wire recognizing an emergency.
ReplyDeleteSo they want to close the downtown loop and now add Main Street to that as well, so I think what the hell, lets just close all of the downtown area and be done with it.
ReplyDelete6:14 Hopefully the FBI is doing just that. Maybe the stench just smells so bad they don't even want to go near it.
ReplyDeleteSteve Vockrodt wants to be in the in-crowd, even if that means selling his souls to the devil. He'll never get it back.
ReplyDeleteI stopped driving down Main street when the streetcar construction made it nearly impassible. Grand was an alternative route until they closed the bridge over the south loop. Walnut is blocked at about 17th Street. It must be the city administration's clever plan to create such a permanent gridlock that everybody will have to buy a downtown apartment for a place to hang out until the traffic clears. Or maybe they're just dumber than a box of rocks.
ReplyDeleteI say it's the latter.
DeleteThere was a similar plan not all that many years ago, to impede vehicle traffic on the main street in the city, make it more "pedestrian friendly", limit access, and generally turn the street into a mall.
ReplyDeleteIt was on Minnesota Avenue in KCK.
It ended up being called McDowell's Folly, unfortunately for very good reason.
It took many years for the downtown to even begin to recover.
It's not a new idea.
Or a good one.
The number of streetcar haters is dwindling daily. FACT.
ReplyDeleteSee you whiners at the Plaza extension kick off.
Tony's Irrelevant Left Behinders...
Once Sly is gone, the City should shut down the starter line and stop wasting taxpayer's dollars.
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ReplyDeletePlaza Extension Kickoff
ReplyDeleteLMAO!
The only Plaza extension there is going to be is the extension of citizens boots up the ass of these streetcar idiots and their neanderthal approach to transportation.
ReplyDelete9:01 Will we see the new streetcar kickoff right after the new airport kickoff??
ReplyDeleteLOL!
This shit ain't gonna happen.
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ReplyDeleteIt's becoming more and more unnecessary to question the streetcar and how it was foisted on the taxpayers, because the results of this very long string of bad decisions is already speaking for itself.
Unintended consequences.
Poor planning.
In competent operations.
Increasingly obvious lack of maintenance.
Inflated promises and claims.
And rapidly dwindling ridership once the unimaginable thrill of being on a trolley quickly wears off.
The transit officionados desperately wanted for the expansion election to prevail BEFORE taxpayers could see the actual results and consequences of the starter line and did everything they could, including redirecting hundreds of thousands of money actually allocated to maintenance and repair of neighborhood streets, to pull another fast one over on the public, just like the original rigged vote.
It failed.
And, as the public sees what it bought, the chances of expansion will decrease.
Minimizing the damage is what needs to be addressed.
So, to get to the Gallup Map Company parking lot you want me to drive down an alley?
ReplyDeleteWhat are the 6 regular posters on this dung heap going to stop the 60% of midtowners who voted for extension last time?
ReplyDeleteBwahaha! 90% of you fucking simpletons live in JoCo or the Northland. Good luck. Guess you're banking on the idea that the same lies and bullshit that "SMART"KC and Dan and Pat tried last time willl stick this time? Hahahahaha! Really got your finger on the pulse of the city if you think tea-bags like Coffee and Tooley speak for their neighbors. Maybe there's a reason their anti-streetcar single-issue city council candidate lost by 60%...and midtown elected the most pro-streetcar candidate on the entire ballot with 77% of the vote.
Have fun spending Rex's play-money. See you at the expansion ribbon cutting, crybabies.
Is it 6 regular posters? Or 8? You're starting to sound like Joe McCarthy, trolley boy. Go back to Coffeyville, where, no doubt, you're a legend in your own mind.
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