TKC MUST SEE!!! KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY DUDE CROSBY KEMPER III SPARKS FIRESTORM WITH EPIC SHARE OF EMPTY TOY TRAIN STREETCAR PHOTO!!!
In a post simply titled, "Streetcar 6:59 AM" a member of Kansas City's ruling class devastates supporters of the streetcar.
Here's another look at a controversial social media share from Crosby Kemper III in context . . .
To be fair, lunch time crowds might pick up but the point taken is clear . . .
REVIEWS OF THE KANSAS CITY TOY TRAIN STREETCAR REVEAL AN EMPTY, SLOW AND DISAPPOINTING EXPERIENCE FROM EVERYBODY WHO ISN'T PAID TO HYPE THE PROJECT!!!
One more for Tuesday . . .
THE PHOTO DOESN'T LIE . . . THE NOVELTY OF THE STREETCAR WORE OFF OVER THE WEEKEND AND NOW KANSAS CITY HAS TURNED BACK TO REAL TRANSIT OPTIONS!!!
And so, our blog community will continue to keep streetcar consultants employed by giving them work to do here in the comments but it's clear that the work week ridership has revealed a FAILED & COSTLY Kansas City transit experiment.
You decide . . .
Hey, what's one hundred million dollars between friends?
ReplyDeleteI wondered why the city hall twitter was full of images from the weekend streetcar debut. They're reliving the glory days.
ReplyDeleteTKC, it would do you well to go and look at Kansas City history. The streetcar was shut down because of lack of ridership. It seems that our city's founders never bothered to look at the reasons behind the shut down and instead bought into liberal propaganda about the tire manufactures shutting down the line. That's only partially correct. By the middle part of last century the war was won. Automobiles clearly outnumbered public transit and kc had made its choice.
ReplyDeleteStreetcars were not only shut down because of lack of ridership but increasing accidents with autos played a part. And I would imagine that auto traffic was considerably less in 1957.
ReplyDeleteAs to no one on the train at 7:00 AM who would be riding it? Hardly anyone will be able to actually ride it to work because few people will both live and work along the 2.2 mile run. Even if they do walking might be just as fast.
Anytime I need a pick me-up, this is the first blog I go to!! I love all of the criticism being spewed left and right about KC and surrounding areas. The anonymous commentators are right; any decision made be the city is bad and leaders were even foolish for making one in the first place. Thanks for making my day, this blog is incredible!
ReplyDeleteSorry to trigger you, delicate flower. It's indicative when sarcasm is a perfectly accurate depiction of events. :)
DeleteLadies, don't wear high heels of any kind near the tracks! I twisted my ankle , hurt my hip during the fall, and prayed no one put it on YouTube...massive goofy fall. It'll take a while to heal. Including my pride. I am at the doctor' s office now. Sigh. Be careful out there.
ReplyDeleteTake care, David. Our prayers are with you and replacement footwear is on the way.:)
DeleteWhile the $110 million dollar 2 mile streetcar rides empty, the city buses are full of people taking buses to work. So why are we supposed to think an empty and expensive streetcar is more progress over a bus?
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ReplyDeleteReminds me of the movie where they were pushing mass transit and the advisor said "Americans love their cars".
ReplyDeleteAs much as the out-of-touch media and Bernie supporters want us to become European, this is still America and mass transit only works where there is out-of-control density -- which isn't Kansas City.
12:16, woke up cranky from that two hour city hall nap. You'll be more cheery after that liquid lunch and another nap. Just be grateful you get to loaf since the two day launch. Sly might be ordering personnel onto the toy train to keep up appearances, and you might have to adjust those NAPPIN' and NIPPIN' schedules.
ReplyDeleteIt's rush hour! Why would anybody be on....nevermind.
ReplyDeleteShhhhhh, David Johnson will start crying. He may break into plaintive song to express his gentle but passionate emotions.
DeleteThe buyer's remorse on this thing will be more swift and severe than that of the average Bowflex purchase.
ReplyDeleteAt least you can hang clothes to dry on a Bowflex.
I wonder how any of the 318 doofuses who voted for this thing even still live in the area.
ReplyDeleteMaybe half?
The KC Streetcar driver is the lonely Maytag repairman of this generation.
ReplyDeleteI've been watching mostly empty streetcars go by my business all day. No more than 10 people on it mid morning and mid afternoon. A few more on at lunch time cuz it's a possible new way to get to someplace different for lunch. But once the downtown workers realize that they can't ride the streetcar to a River Market eatery, get seated and order, consume lunch, then ride back to work in an hour they will give up on that idea.
ReplyDeleteLunch riders will only be the people who can take a very long lunch not most workers.
ReplyDeleteEffective May 15th the train will run from 11:30 to 1:30 weekdays and from 5:30 PM Friday thru 8 PM Sundays. These rest of the time the train will look pretty, at least until the gan graffiti starts. In other to raise revenue for our 18th and Vine project nothing changes in the line parking and towing policies. Thanks suckers.
Hey, 12:22,
ReplyDeleteIf you would stop turning tricks earlier than 7am you wouldn't fall on your cracked-up ass.
Not to worry, 2:03, "April" was trying out some new spikes and that horse slap karma is starting to kick in. Hahaha (and a big horse neigh from "Dan").
ReplyDeleteStill don't understand the purpose of the streetcar. Especially when it failed in this city once before decades ago.
ReplyDeleteI think our city leaders need to stop going to other cities, falling in love with what they have then thinking they can blindly replicate it here. That's why they pushed so hard for the streetcar. They went to a city with it, thought it looked cool, said "Mom, I want that" and boom, $100M later we have a streetcar that will likely never really spur anything nor meet the ridership projections they expected and will ultimately involve raising taxes in the taxing district again or making it a pay to ride deal.
Whatever the case, the writing is on the wall. They are never going to get support to extend it. Nor should they because it's a failed model for THIS city. I don't care what other cities have. We are way too spread out and too in love with our cars for streetcars to work here in the long term.
Toot toot. Hoot. Echo echo echo echo. Clunk.
ReplyDeleteKudos to Crosby. Well done.
ReplyDeleteTony, don't start ragging on the streetcar ridership numbers just yet! The rider numbers are always astronomically high for the first one or two months when people want to soak in the novelty of the newfangled bus for white people that runs on wires and steel rails.
ReplyDeleteAfter the honeymoon period expires, the ridership will shrink to almost nothing and Kansas Citians will be scratching their heads as to why there is a relic of the 19th century clogging their passage from their parking space to the highway.
In terms of riders, the streetcar universally fails. Even in Seattle and Portland, the miracle cities that inspired so many glamour projects across this once-great nation of ours, no one (aside from apparently breathless politicians and chamber of commerce types) actually ride the ugly things with any regularity.
But fret not because the streetcar already succeeded in its main goal. Out of town contractors, engineering firms, consultants and local subs got paid. Already wealthy real estate developers got another excuse to raise their rents on your children and pay less or in some cases no taxes and most importantly Lyin' $ly got his glamour project rammed through.
Say what you will, but we can all thank Donald Trump for keeping Kansas City from rushing an extension vote in front of whichever enclave of stooges they think will try to use to issue millions more dollars in debt, which of course effects the entire city in the long run and costs more than whatever advertised price city hall sell the lapdog local media. Unless Doug Stone and his wizkids at Pollsinelli pull an off-cycle, midsummer election out of their asses (as they attempted previously) we won't see a vote on an extension until after all the Trump loonies have made America great again.
We can only hope and pray that the streetcar proves itself to be an ill-advised boondoogle before Lyin' $ly and his cohorts put together another mail-in, notarized vote in a whites-only voting district.
Not even fat ass Troy Schulte or his incompetent public works director were riding it? Were they taking an all expenses paid trip to Spain? Was our under qualified aviation director riding it? KCMO administration is a JOKE
ReplyDeleteDesperation sets in at the Tinys KVetching Cunts blog, as they get left behind by Real Kansas City yet again.
ReplyDeleteOver 45K riders. Lines to use the streetcar on a Tuesday. More users in 5 days than people who used the Public Library internet in 1 year. More riders than this blog gets readers in multiple years...
Nice propaganda, angry one. Sadly, pictures don't lie.
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ReplyDeleteI have been watching empty buses travel past my work for years..probably should call those a waste of money too
Can't wait until they release ridership numbers. I live River Market and trolley has Ben empty on Monday and Tuesday.
ReplyDeletePeople may be riding back and forth from downtown to Crossroads for lunch but they sure as hell aren't coming to the River Market. It's empty by the time it loops around this are. I can see it go by out my window every 10 minutes. Empty.
ReplyDeleteWonder if there are any empty streets in KC right now? Good thing they are totally free, are ultra-modern technology, were voted on city-wide every time one was built or extended, and never have any problems.
ReplyDeleteCompletely silly non sequitur.
DeleteIn six months time compare the streetcar rider numbers to the rides at Worlds of Fun.
ReplyDeleteNow that will be a fair comparison.
Free stuff, celebrations, fireworks, and all the rest. And the throngs came out to witness the amazing machine, just like crowds at a carnival midway.
The kids all thought it was really fun.
Then reality sets in and even the relentless PR from city hall and the local media shills won't be able to fudge enough to cover the truth.
When there's no cheer leading going on, you'll know the inevitable has arrived.
Except for the decades of debt.
All aboard!
One correction. I was there on Friday and what I saw was a lot of big Jenga games unplayed and one beardo singing for a few drunks.
Deletefricking shame that we put $100 million into this nightmare.
ReplyDeleteWhen school gets out the gang bangers will start using it.
ReplyDeleteThings and ideas can fail. Many times quickly and spectacularly.
ReplyDelete3:15: Also it's faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound...it's a bird...it's a plane... . It's SUPERTROLLEY!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure when the city releases ridership numbers they will be embarrassingly over-inflated to make the sheep believe this debacle was a good investment of $100M.
ReplyDeleteThe reality is that the damn thing really serves very little purpose. Personally, I've walked and jogged from the River Market to crown center a number of times. Did we really need to invest $100M into a 2.2 mile FIXED rail system to travel a distance a large number of people can walk, run or bike?
This thing was a sham just to get the wrong people paid. And soon, if not already, the REAL numbers will prove that out. It's a novelty that we really didn't need. Imagine what we could have done with that $100M.
does the empty toy train stop at the empty Sprint Center -?-
ReplyDeletethe one that KC Democrats promised its taxpayers would house and NHL or NBA team?
Kemper is smart, which means you need to be disciplined and even frugal when it comes to money and finances. Even if your rich.
ReplyDeleteMay as well take advantage of the free ride while it lasts.
LOL
Crosby's libraries weren't even open at that time.
ReplyDeleteThis is the city government that told us 24 million tourist visit KC every year. 24 million!
ReplyDeleteWould you believe ANY train ridership numbers they publish? I wouldn't.
Too bad none of these fuckwits will end up in prison.
Damn, I guess that means shut it down....
ReplyDeleteThe streetcar is so screwed.. TOLD YOU SO!!!! https://20poundsofheadlines.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/tkc-sued-by-local-42s-louie-wright-botello-i-am-screwed/
ReplyDeleteHahahahahahaha!!!! SUCKAS!!!! Now gimme ma LOOT!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Springfield Monorail!!!
ReplyDeleteReally, be honest. I have lived here almost 60 years and after a careful 1 minute of consideration I knew as did 90% of thinking Kansas City residents that the train was a dumb idea. As is a new airport or stadium. Fix the sewers, streets and bridges. Duh
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