Newsflash: No Money For Kansas City East-West Streetcar Route

The toy train is too pricey to turn East . . .

A line to the 18th & Vine District SHOULD HAVE BEEN part of the plan . . . But it looks like local transit activists will have to settle for ruining Main Street and driving a few more dozen locally owned places out of business.

Here's a peek at the damage . . .

"It would cost $450- to $600 million to build a streetcar line from the KU Medical Center to Van Brundt Boulevard and $6 million annually to operate, according to a report prepared for the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority."

And instead of featuring a link to the hack development blog where this passage was liberated . . . We share words of wisdom from somebody far richer than any TKC reader . . . 

Warren Buffett has no desire for planned streetcars in his hometown of Omaha

Omaha, Neb. - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett broke with his practice of staying out of local politics to urge his hometown of Omaha to abandon its planned streetcar project because, he says, it's too expensive and not as flexible as buses.