They're up & running for the latest night after broken Kansas City infrastructure turned away riders this evening. Take a look:
KC Streetcar 🚊 on Twitter
RIDER ALERT: #kcstreetcar service temp delayed due to Water Main break near 7th&Walnut & flowing towards the tracks. Will resume once clear
The wonders of fixed rail "transit!" Toot toot. Hoot. Glub glub glub. Clunk.
ReplyDeleteBut, but... the City spent months and buckets of money tearing up the streets and replacing pipes, just so this sort of thing couldn't happen!
ReplyDeleteWhen the streetcar was first proposed, it was obvious that the City's long-ignored infrastructure would not allow anything that was dependent on a fixed route (tracks for instance,) to operate without interruption.
Time, treasure and political assurances were poured forth to "solve" that matter, yet the first hard freeze puts the "Toy Train" out of action!
Doesn't bode well for the "Plastic Shoebox" we're going to get at KCI, does it?
ReplyDeleteWhere's that GO BOND MONEY?
Meanwhile, the bus just went around the block.
ReplyDeleteVery nice, see you guys at the streetcar expansion groundbreaking, along with the single airport terminal groundbreaking, and the new convention hotel groundbreaking....
ReplyDeleteThe streetcar is such amazing 18th century technology.
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