Kansas City Streetcar Persists Powered Only By Real Estate Speculation

A quick question for toy train streetcar proponents . . . 

CAN YOU NAME ANY LOCAL BIZ THAT HAS BENEFITED FROM THE STREETCAR WITHOUT OVERWHELMING TAXPAYER SUBSIDY?!?

All of that luxury housing doesn't count and neither does the P&L District given that KC burns MILLIONS every year to keep it going. 

Locally owned restaurants have shut down by the dozens thanks to toy train construction. 

Traffic from the streetcar line couldn't even keep a BBQ place open . . . Think about that for a sec. A BBQ joint in Kansas City right next to one of the busiest streetcar stops in the heart of the KCMO shut down because there weren't enough customers.

Meanwhile, the farce and fake numbers continue without any real questions about bad policy passed only by avoiding a citywide vote . . .

"Construction on a northbound streetcar extension, from River Market to the Berkeley Riverfront, will begin next year. But there's still plenty of work left to do on the route to UMKC, with an expected open date in late 2025."

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

KC Streetcar will start building riverfront extension in 2023, but Main Street work is far from done

By the end of 2022, the KC Streetcar will have laid approximately a quarter of the tracks needed to extend the route southward toward UMKC from Union Station. And in the new year, the streetcar plans to begin construction on a new three-quarter-mile extension from River Market to the Berkeley Riverfront.