Clay Chastain Preps Greatest Petition On Earth Whilst Mayor Q Is Out Of Town

A friend of the blog and www.TonysKansasCity.com tribute to the #TBT longtime local activist:

While Mayor Lucas prepares to vacation half-way around the Earth, Activist Clay Chastain arrives in Kansas City with *The Greatest Petition on Earth*.

It is designed to actuate *The Comeback of Kansas City* & help turn the tide on crime. It will benefit the people, grow the City & secure federal funding. It will create thousands of new jobs by providing the City with new infrastructure investments & mobility options including a Monumental Monorail connecting Kansas City's New International Airport to the City's Downtown Streetcar System @ a New Union Station Regional Transportation Center & more.

The 2025 Petition Initiative is "A Many Splendored Thing"..... It will make life easier for residents & humanize their urban environment. Its ideas may seem radical to some, but inferiority can no longer suffice. It lifts KC out of the mire & onto the mountain. It revives "the City Beautiful" & presents it like never before. It comes from a free-thinking engineer (who loves the City). It realizes what many know KC can be, but hasn't become. Residents will soon bubble over in affection for their revived Community. The *Marvelous Movin Monorail* will lead the Nation & put the thrill back in KC. We will "Meet under the Clock" (again) as our "Living Room" comes back to life as a bustling, regional transportation center. Calming, pedestrian-friendly Greenways will provide new mobility options & new safe places for urban residents to greet & hangout. A New & Natural (Car-free) Penn Valley Park will reconnect residents to nature & put the "Asphalt Jungle" in retreat.

The Initiative Petition also heeds distress signals...60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and need help with reducing their Soaring transportation & housing costs; the City needs a major infrastructure improvement project to..create jobs, foster growth, become more sustainable, erase a sea of deferred maintenance and help put crime in retreat. The City also needs an urban-rebuild plan that can secure significant federal funding assistance.

It needed to come and it has..."The Greatest Petition On Earth", as follows:

*KC PETITION TO ACTUATE THE COMEBACK OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI*

Shall the City of Kansas City, Missouri extend the 3/8-cent bus sales tax for an additional 40-years (upon its expiration in 2033) & impose a new 1/4-cent capital improvement sales tax for 40-years (beginning in 2026) in order to secure federal funds & provide for the following capital improvements:

1. Construct (Citywide) Monorail System serving…New Kansas City International Airport, Northland, Downtown, Union Station, Plaza, Eastside & KC Zoo…& promote construction of Affordable housing & mixed-use development along corridor & establish fleet of mini-electric shuttle buses to expand service area around Monorail Stations to nearby neighborhoods, destinations & job centers;

2. Repurpose (Select) blighted roadways (including Troost) into pedestrian-friendly Greenways with limited, no-thru traffic & dedicated lanes for… pedestrians, cyclists / scooterists & electric buses...& promote new Light business & Affordable housing units along (tree-lined) Greenways;   

3. Upgrade Penn Valley Park into a safe & natural Downtown Park (perimeter pkg. & no vehicular traffic inside Park) including 200-acres of new trees, open green space and recreational trails;

4. Incorporate into Union Station’s North Wing a Regional Transportation Hub (requires razing bldgs. @ 2300 & 2301 Main St. via eminent domain) to facilitate connections between alternative forms of transportation…streetcars, electric-buses, metro-express buses, Amtrak & the KCI Airport Monorail?

KC Activist, Clay Chastain
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