TKC TRANSIT TREND BREAKING NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY ELECTRIC SCOOTER PROLIFERATION SPARKS BUFFERED LANE TOUGH CHOICE BETWIXT DOWNTOWN ON-STREET PARKING VS. TRAFFIC FLOW!!!
The Kansas City electric scooter sensation this Summer has inspired City Hall leaders to consider imposing more restrictions on Downtown traffic along the streetcar line.
To wit . . .
SCOOTERS ON MAIN STREET INSPIRE 'ACCELERATED' CONSIDERATION OF MORE LIMITATIONS ON CARS!!!
In this morning's KC Stat meeting, City Manager Troy Schulte spoke of scooter traffic "conversation that we're going to have sooner rather than later (on protection) for scooter traffic . . . It's becoming a public safety issue."
The choice . . .
The joke-y talk among KCATA leaders, Mayor Sly and the City Manager warned of a decision betwixt more buffered lanes for scooters and bikes vs. the growing likelihood of eliminating on-street parking along the toy train line.
Again, cutting traffic flow is also a choice that's on the table.
The growing number of injuries to Bird scooter riders have inspired this talk.
Also, on "more than a few" occasions, according to KC Stat officials, scooter riders are delaying streetcar traffic and Bird scooter wheels have been stuck inside toy train tracks.
TKC Fact Check . . . The upshot here is that there's an ongoing war with auto traffic on Main Street and using scooter safety as a reason to remove more cars is a convenient ploy whereas bigger, better cities have simply banned dockless scooters altogether.
Developing . . .
Better title for your TKC.
ReplyDeleteCars are the enemy in Kansas City.
Another addition to the amusement park rides in downtown KCMO.
ReplyDeleteWhich intersection is the merry go round going to be built on?
Chasing short-term trends with long-term funding is a really bad idea.
The current cast of characters will be long gone.
But the taxpayers will still be here, stuck with the tab.
Frosty.
You can thank the toilet bowl thinking of our city officials this past seven years for all the problems that have snowballed and now plague us.
ReplyDeleteEVERYTHING IS UP TO DATE IN KANSAS CITY
ReplyDeleteWhats the matter Troy, you idiots at 12th and Oak afraid people might take to riding other things other than that damn joke of a street car?
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm, they can add up the multiple injuries to scooter riders but can’t keep track of the actual murder numbers.......... me smells a rat, and it ain’t good for the citizens who drive cars and don’t ride toy train.
ReplyDeleteThis is terrific insight here! I'm mean guys like Ho Lee Fuk, who seems to have an awful opinion about everything! He seems to have nothing to say and he says it multiple times daily! Why don't you have any family, friends or anything better to do? Is this gathering place for the nearly departed all you have? You other goons have been generating top-shelf analysis here. Keep going guys! You're going to solve all the world's problems!
ReplyDeleteWhats the matter 11:17 the raw truth to much to handle. Didn't mommy make a safe room for you to hide in?
ReplyDeletePeople have to pay a private company to ride a Scooter, but the city owned Streetcar is free. Anyone see a problem here?
ReplyDeleteHow much do these scooters cost to begin with? I have hard time seeing much profit in this rent-a-scooter business model.
ReplyDelete^^I don't know. Why are you asking on here? Did you call the company? No? Why not? Quit asking dumb questions. Retard.
ReplyDeleteHas the mayor been seen yet riding one around town?
ReplyDelete^^^^^His fat ass would break one of them. But you do make me wonder how many times a day the Mayor uses the street car? How many times a day does any of the so called mayors staff use the streetcar? Go4KC do you ride it everyday?
ReplyDeleteOMG this is technology, I mean, it's like can't they send people to mars riding these things? With a phone and app and space suit it's like totally possible!
ReplyDelete1:15 I think I saw a picture of the mayor once taking a ride but he had it exclusively to himself with a few others. I think he gets chauffeured around in an SUV. Street car is for peasants.
ReplyDeleteI also wonder if he Carry’s a concealed pistol.
Where are the insurance industries....the risk/liability has to taken into account for motorist/vehicles who have to insurance to operate their vehicles on public streets.
ReplyDeleteThis is worst than if pedestrians who decide to walk through traffic and expect not to be injured?
These scooters force disabled pedestrians on sidewalks with to yield the rightaway
ReplyDeleteLook at me man. I'm riding a scooter man. This is high tech man. Get out a my way man.
ReplyDeleteMom and Dad! I just got a job as a Bird charger! I finally made the big time!
ReplyDeleteHas anyone else figured out yet that Tech 2.0 (Post PC hardware Boom) is about robbing people not only of their time, privacy, and productivity but their money?
ReplyDeleteKCMO city hall considering limiting traffic will drive more people away from downtown. This also hinders the 25 million anally tourists.
ReplyDeleteDegenerate Capitalism as it's best.
ReplyDelete@12:45 is Go4KC.
ReplyDeleteMomentmen!!! Go Go Gopher, won't you Go Go Go...
ReplyDeleteThe scooter fucknuggets will be thuggin before you know it!
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