Kansas City Urban Planner 'Linear Park' Plan For Buck O'Nel Bridge Costs $100 MILLION

Once again, cute sketches and social media advocacy confront real world costs . . .

And so an iconic Kansas City bridge will soon be scrapped and replaced with a soulless structure that looks like it was designed by a sophomore drafting student.  

Here's the damage . . .

"The $100 million construction price tag in the report prepared by Burns & McDonnell did not include the future costs of maintaining the steel-truss bridge, and operating the park and programming activities."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Prospects 'Bleak' for Converting Old Buck O'Neil Bridge to Park

By Kevin Collison The prospect of the old Buck O'Neil Bridge being converted to a linear park is "bleak" according to a feasibility study that determined the proposal would cost $100 million, double the original estimate.