During the coronavirus shut down, Mayor & Council enacted a sketchy bit of legislation without much input from the public.
Here's a reminder:
Kansas City officially launched its Open Streets Program on April 23, 2020. The program consists of several parts:
- Neighborhood open streets permit
- Implementing automatic pedestrian crossings at over 100 intersections in high-pedestrian areas
- Four longer “local traffic only” corridor closures sponsored by the city
- Roadway closures in some city parks
The most innovative piece of the program is the Neighborhood Open Streets permit. Kansas City Public Works collaborated remotely with the IT Department and the citywide permitting system, Compass KC, to create a new permit for anyone to obtain in the city’s neighborhoods. The permit was set up in our system in a matter of days and by the end of the second week, we had received over 20 permit applications.
The Neighborhood Open Streets permit is based on an existing permit format that waives several requirements including fees, neighborhood signatures and design drawings, and puts the onus on the applicant to provide barricades and signage. Our criteria for approving these permits includes streets with low traffic volumes and low speeds, limited to one block, and streets with no other city or utility work in the area. Additionally, each location must maintain access for local traffic, as well as emergency and delivery vehicles.
Accordingly . . .
THE REACTION TO STREET SHUTDOWNS HAS BEEN OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE AND FRUSTRATED MOTORISTS PLEGE TO IGNORE THE SKETCHY SIGNAGE!!!
From a popular message board just now:
"This is hilarious. Which Karen put this up on 71st street? PS I’ll start driving down it every day now."
Another KICK-ASS reader writes TKC:
"What's with every other street in Brookside turned into a private drive? A few people act like they own the whole street and block access for everyone else with little or no approval from their neighbors. Brazen."
To wit . . .
Once again, Bike/Walk Kansas City activists push a traffic "solution" that doesn't really work in the real world. Amid widespread KCMO driver disrespect for these signs, local youngsters and pedestrians might be confronting MORE danger by putting their faith in politically correct civic activist posturing that doesn't account for the reality on local streets.
Developing . . .
Please be careful when driving. You really don't want to run over an innocent person.
ReplyDeleteIs there a false sense of confidence because of these signs? Yes. But the most important thing is to avoid accidents just to prove a point. Please drive carefully.
^^^ Tell that to Bike KC. They're the ones encouraging people to dart out into the middle of the street.
DeleteIf you want to live on a private drive. Then pay for it. Don't inflict your will on everyone else Council Bunch needs to be retired before he can do more damage.
DeleteREOPEN KANSAS CITY, REOPEN THE STREETS!
ReplyDeleteThere was a city, many Breckenridge in Colorado that closed during the 1918 flu. They had no cases. Nobody could enter or leave. But no cases as the whole world lost millions. They blocked roads and posted signs and guards. It is a matter of life and death after all. More have died of covid than the nam war - by 40,000. Yes 40,000 more than the nam war. In 2 1/2 months
ReplyDeleteEncyclopedia Britannica states: The deaths of as many as 2 million Vietnamese civilians, 1.1 million North Vietnamese soldiers, 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers, and 58,000 U.S. servicemen
DeleteWow, now I've seen it all.
ReplyDeleteTOP PHOTO -- DO-IT-YOURSELF POTHOLE REPAIR
ReplyDeleteAfter a few photo-ops with a street crew, while wearing khakis and tie, Mayor Lucas resorted to dropping off bags of asphalt patch and forcing residents to repair their own streets!!!
Keep the streets closed!
ReplyDeleteKeep them closed forever!
We all know people who love to make prohibitive signs. That person at work ... do this don't do that..... This corona era has given that person true fulfillment.
ReplyDeleteIf only President Fat Ass had heeded COVID warnings instead of playing golf and holding MAGA rallies ... all of this would have been avoided. Instead, 100,000 American dead. 39 million unemployed. Economy ruined. Public streets blocked off.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Deplorable MAGATS!
1050 Soros-bot probably made a nickel off that post.
ReplyDeleteNobody made it illegal to go hide under your bed candy ass, so your choices are your responsibility.
^^^Please Gus, tell us where his statement is incorrect. Oh yeah, it isn't. Trump is a huge fuck up who didn't do shit other than some half ass China travel ban. That worked well.
ReplyDelete11:39 What would you have done candy ass?
ReplyDeleteIf only there was a way we could virtually wipe the tears of those inconvenienced drivers .
ReplyDelete^^^^ I would have raw-dogged Stormy again while shooting up hydro-imbecillin and tooting Lysol. You, MAGAT?
ReplyDeleteTrump left the covid-19 response to the Health Departments of the individual states.
ReplyDeleteApparently some people here think a president can suspend the constitution and ban human interaction because yet another flu epidemic has followed too predictable course.
Trump had the balls to close down flights from China and other places early on, unless they were U.S. citizens. He saved hundreds of thousands by doing so, even though the Dems called him racist. Obama would have been looking in the mirror and thinking how cool he looked if he would have been president at the time. Biden would have been looking in a mirror and thinking he found his long-lost twin brother.
ReplyDelete^^^^^FTW
ReplyDeleteNothing new about gated neighborhoods, with the exception of the sponsorship of the municipal government. The undesirables cannot enter.
ReplyDeleteIf Clinton were president, death toll would be 500,000+ now and borders with China would still be wide open.
ReplyDeleteMAGA!
KAG!
MAGAA!
NO BULLSHIT!
How do you spell 30 years of American Greatness?:
Trump 2020
Pence 2024
Pence 2028
Kobach 2032
Kobach 2036
Trump Jr. 2040
Trump Jr. 2044
Hawley 2048
Hawley 2052
NOW REACT TO ME!
^^^Sorry. NWOR. Not sorry.
ReplyDelete10:21, the more pertinent question is how many life years were lost in 'Nam versus the Covid 19 pandemic? More lost in the war than the covid, by far.
ReplyDeleteHeads up you mentally ill leftist traitors out there I’ll go anywhere I want any time I want for any fucking reason I want and you can shove your democrat liberal nuisance masks up your social distancing asses by the way your stupid gloves too you mindless traitors
ReplyDelete^^^You can go anywhere you want (and I have a few suggestions) as long as it's nowhere near me!
ReplyDeleteHow's the Show going for you. This metro has larger problem's then The President. Everyone should concentrate on there communities. No President or Politicians WILL be able to help you. You have to help yourself. The Blue City's will turn into a Caracas Venezuela. With the Crime The HYPER INFLATION .THE Political control Freaks. And a virus will be the least of your worries .The Haves and the have nots .Look at the Bread lines every day There will be fewer Jobs and Businesses. 80 percent of Americans don't have savings and are a servant to The lender.
ReplyDeleteCivil war in KILLA city = liberal whites and the property daddy gave them swallowed up by liberal blacks. Its a win win
ReplyDeleteEVERYTHING IN KILLA CITY IS THE REPUBLICANS FAULT NOW LETS GET THIS CHAOTIC DUMP BANKRUPT
ReplyDelete1139 DONT you have a baby’s daddy’s dick to suck
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ReplyDeleteGood list. A minor suggestion: Put Hawley in 2028/32.
Ditch Kobach. He can't even get elected in Kansas.
Kobach may be bright but he has a tin ear.
ReplyDeleteAttention Deplorable MAGATS! Nap time. Go to your cribs and the staff will bring your favorite blankies in a minute. Before nodding off, say a prayer for Rush Limpballs. His terminal cancer is progressing fast and he doesn't have much time. Maybe smoke a candy cigar in his honor. Probably got the cancer from nearby windmills. Such a tragedy.
ReplyDeleteSweet dreams, MAGATS.
^^^OK Karen
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ReplyDeleteHey 2:16 If you don't vote for Joe you ain't black. You can't smell my hair pedo.
12:02 - You apparently have no idea how infectious diseases work. Fact: Travel Ban was Half Ass, which is pretty much like everything Trump does. Like, Trump U. Trump Steaks. Trump Airlines. The USFL. Casinos.....fucking Casinos. Places that basically print their own money...yep, Trump kills those off too.
ReplyDeleteSo yeah, big old Trump balls to ban travel except for 40,000+ to come to the US and spread the disease while you play golf and jerk off at your fucking rube rallies and ignore and downplay the global pandemic.
Tell me where I'm wrong Trumptard. Own up that you voted for one of the stupidest fucking grifters on the planet dipshit. And now, the chickens have come home to roost.
Trump's ban meant many of those infected coming from China and other places were not coming here. Pretty straightforward, but you probably need a flowchart.
ReplyDelete^^^Don't forget Trump also stole from his charity. Though I don't know, is that a win? I mean, he got money out of it I guess.
ReplyDeleteCan a Trumptard weigh in here....is that considered a win. Stealing from a charity and being banned from operating any charities in the future?
Oh, and for all you Benghazi Conspiracy fans - don't forget that the only el Qaida attack since 9/11 happened last year in Pensacola on Trumps/Pompeos watch.
ReplyDeleteIf the President/SecofState were supposed to be held responsible for the (overseas) attack at Benghazi, who is to blame for allowing yet another Saudi Arabian to carry out this attack IN OUR OWN COUNTRY?
Lock em up!
2:52 - Yay, only a few hundred or couple thousand infected coming here and spreading it vs. 10's of thousands. And then sitting on your big fat Trump ass, playing golf and rallying with the dipshits and pretending it'll all go away.
ReplyDeleteThat's helpful. If only thinking adult were running things.
Yeah, unfortunately, the Rona also came in from Europe. But they're white people, so they're cool.
ReplyDelete2:54 - Trump wanted to invite the Taliban up to Camp David for some peace talks. Let that one stew around your little noggins Trumptards.
ReplyDelete2:52 - why is it so hard to understand that a "ban" does nothing without follow up? You literally let thousands of carriers in the country scot-free to spread a virus.
ReplyDeleteA smart President would've put citizens and related who were coming home from China into quarantine or not allowed anyone at all.
Seriously, I think Trumpers get erections when you say border wall or travel ban.
2:49 when those 40,000 Americans and green card holders came back they were quarantined for 14 days, some at home and some at military bases. There, fixed it for your dumb ass.
ReplyDelete2:52 does the Clinton foundation ring any bells in that empty noggin of yours?
2:54 Hillary is to blame for Benghazi and what happened in Pensacola was at a navy base committed by a lone crazy Muslim pilot, it’s not like their was any intel on one guy who did that on his own so.....
2:55 all white huh? and you know that how? And you have 100% solid undeniable truth huh?
Speaking of barricades ... Deplorable MAGATS, has Mexico paid for the wall yet?
ReplyDelete3:05 you just got smacked down with that lie by 3:10, really, how stupid was soros to hire you as a troll? Worst. Troll. Evar!
ReplyDeleteDespicable dimwits cannot tell the truth, it’s in their genes.
Do you have proof that Mexico isn’t paying for the wall?
ReplyDelete216 is a Obama welfare baby raised on hot wings and purple koolaids
ReplyDelete2:52 From the Chinese news network cnn.....
ReplyDelete“President Donald Trump played golf Saturday for the first time since he declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency more than two months ago”
That must hurt when truth smacks you upside your empty head!
Meanwhile, back in rapey joes basement....
See all those little spiky balls on the ground? About 40-50 years ago the city came around and planted those shitty sweetgum trees. Kansas City has always sucked.
ReplyDeleteOk, Deplorables. Tantrum meltdown is over; you need a timeout. Pull yourself together, MAGATS, or you sit in your room without dinner. Keep it up and you'll be picking out a switch from the backyard.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Dear Leader is not impressed with your 1st grade insults and intelligence. Try reading once in awhile. Maybe attempt Hooked On Phonics tonight? Call me if you get stumped.
I just drove down one of these on purpose! You should've seen the looks the on the faces of the people outside. Ha ha ha.
ReplyDeleteI can't smell my armpits!!! OMG, call the Medics!
ReplyDeleteSleepy Joe Biden
Doctors are not telling us the whole truth. If you get Covid it weakens you, If you get diabetes later - it will be much more serious. If your an athlete, it will damage your lungs and you will not be able to play ever again. If you have any really serious health issues, it will make things worse. Your kids will have a shortened lifespan due to it going dormant and coming back later. They just dont want to tell you as it would cause panic. Smokers will be found to have the highest mortalilty.
ReplyDelete^^^ ok Karen, nobody has said any such thing.
ReplyDeleteIs the Rex “Adam schiff of kc” archer” trying to intimidate the citizens again?
masks save lives, or they would if people used them
ReplyDelete5:28 you seem to be the only one having a meltdown. That fact that you’re trashing trump in every post regardless of what it’s about is proof of who’s melting down and it’s you all day everyday.
ReplyDeleteSoros is calling and he wants his money back because you’re trolling is just plain pathetic.
7:22 no they don’t, Rexy just said they’re only good for respecting the dead so....
ReplyDelete@3:10 The Saudi Pilot was highlighted by the NSA due to his al Qaida connections when he first was proposed by the Saudi Government for "training" here. Their objections were overruled by the State Department (Pompeo) due to the fact he was remotely connected to the Saudi Royal Family, and he was allowed into this Country.
ReplyDeleteHis continuing communications with al Qaida were monitored and continuously communicated to the State Department, with no action taken. Pompeo was the Secretary of State the entire time, and under the "Hillary Rule" created by the Right Wing screaming, he therefore bore the entire responsibility for the attack occurring.
One Saudi Arabian killer or Twenty, the same "rules" apply - Pompeo and Trump screwed up, or Obama and Clinton didn't - it's that simple.
Protest City stupidity and developer giveaways at the polls.
ReplyDeleteVote No!
3:10
ReplyDeleteOnly Hubei Province travelers were quarantined for 14 days. Everyone else was free to go about their day.
The Clinton foundation has some of the highest ratings available from independent watchdog groups. Oh, and they haven't been disbanded and accused of stealing the funds the take in and oh yeah, forced to shut down. So you can go on and GTFOH with your bullshit. I'm sure the watchdog groups are all part of the cabal of George Soros funded entities, right?
Let's not get into a body count fight. The US tragically lost 4 Americans in Benghazi and Clinton sat down with Congress for over 30 hours. Will Trump or anyone in his administration who is ultimately in charge gonna sit?
Yeah didn't think so. So go fuck yourself.
Europe, aka, not "shithole" countries. If you can't see the difference, I can't help your dumb Trumpster ass.
Your guy fucking sucks, admit it. He's grifted you and it hurts and you want to cling to it because you'd look like a the fucking moron you are if your intelligent friends knew you were such a dumbfuck Trumptard. Just own it dummy.
.....COLLUSION COLLUSION COLLUSION!
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