Kansas City Zero Fare Support Based On 'Garbage' Research

The only conservative writing for the daily newspaper plays a classic Kansas City political game . . .

LET'S BLAME THE GUY THEY ALREADY FIRED!!!

Insiders who read the column will know that it's not fair to blame Robbie for much. He was an old school friend of a felon politico who might've "earned" his gig specifically for his lack of transit knowledge.

Meanwhile . . . 

All of the lawyers at City Hall should've known better.

Accordingly . . . Check this worthwhile passage and a link to more info . . .

It (The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority) relied on a fatally flawed economic impact study by the University of Missouri-Kansas City Center for Economic Information. The study’s errors were numerous, including using an ill-suited economic model that projected local GDP would increase by $11 million in what they called “a very conservative estimate.” Howard Wall, director and chief economist of the Center for Regional Economic Research at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, read the analysis and called it “garbage.”

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

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