Aftermath: Pedestrian Hit & Killed On Infamous Kansas City Highway Of Death

This is the most poorly designed street in all of the Kansas City metro and today it claimed another life . . . Read more:

Vehicle hits, kills man trying to cross 71-Highway just north of Gregory

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City police said a pedestrian is dead after a vehicle struck them along 71-Highway Sunday night. The incident happened around 10:52 p.m. just north of Gregory. Police said the driver of a silver Mitsubishi Lancer told them they were driving north when they hit someone attempting to cross the highway.

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  1. Anonymous1/20/20, 4:06 PM

    When we will get rid of the stoplights and put bridges in. This a highway not city street. Safety first.

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  2. Anonymous1/20/20, 4:12 PM

    "The Most Poorly Designed Street in all of the Kansas City"? Well what do you expect when a bunch of Mizzou-grads design the highways for MoDOT?

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  3. Anonymous1/20/20, 4:16 PM

    Oh crap. Now there will be the frenzied outcry that the felony freeway must have bike lanes and the dreaded, zig zag, traffic calming islands. Maybe rename it the MLK/Pedro Pedalhumper Lane.

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  4. Anonymous1/20/20, 4:22 PM

    More death and destruction probably caused by the Chiefs winning. Some fool drank to much after the game and fell in front of a car. Blame it all on the Chiefs.

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  5. Anonymous1/20/20, 5:16 PM

    Nice job Cleaver. The blood is on your hands.

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    1. Anonymous1/20/20, 5:21 PM

      Absolutely right! It was developed in the 60s as a freeway it was originally called the South Town freeway! It absolutely was cleaver who wanted to stop lights in and change to a Boulevard so the east side was not separated from the west side. Once again good intentions just got someone killed.

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  6. Anonymous1/20/20, 7:09 PM

    Good intentions hell, @5:21, Cleaver rammed this damned thing through over opposition led by Bruce Watkins.

    The Watkins/Jordan-led Freedom, Inc. group went to Federal Court to stop the project dead, but the Federal Judge allowed it to proceed, but ordered the stoplights to maintain a connection between the two parts of the disrupted neighborhood.

    After Watkins died in 1980, Cleaver took his revenge, and out of sheer nastiness and spite, named the road the "Bruce R. Watkins Freeway" - nasty little bastard!

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  7. Anonymous1/20/20, 9:28 PM

    Meh.

    This is preventable: Don't fucking play in traffic and/or walk out in front of a vehicle making 65 miles/hour. Simple, 3rd grade logic, yo...

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  8. Anonymous1/21/20, 11:27 AM

    Thank you cleaver for making sure we got the most dangerous AND inconvenient stretch of road rather than getting federal money could have made it I-49.

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  9. Anonymous1/21/20, 4:47 PM

    Did he have his bike helmet on and properly secured? Bet not.

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