Kansas City 'Traffic Calming' Schemes Fade Fast In Northeast

Actually . . . The urban planner schemes are temporary at best given that hipsters have constantly evolving interest. 

Kansas City amateur urban planners rarely display any long term commitment. One day their devising sketchy & costly transit schemes and them BAM!!! They move to Leawood for more quiet and maybe to take up baking sourdough bread as a more rewarding hobby.

And so . . .

Credit to our favorite community newspaper for following street drama and showing readers have improvements haven't remained intact for very long.

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Paving along 12th Street is completed and now awaits restriping and painting of turn lanes, and maybe that’s the end of the story as far as Public Works is concerned.

As far as the $25,000 Bloomberg grant is concerned though, The Northeast News questions whether that funding was utilized to its best ability. Several artists were compensated and able to expand their portfolio, but the art they created was quickly compromised by errant traffic and weather . . .

Midtown KC Now, which coordinated the 2021 Asphalt Art project in Westport, turned its traffic-calming project into a permanent feature.

Here in Historic Northeast, those elements simply withered away to the point that what remained was removed —- in less than three years.

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

All is Calm (?) After Benton Boulevard Intersection Repavement - OP-ED - Northeast News

Dorri Partain Managing Editor In August 2022, a group of commissioned artists transformed the intersection at 12th Street and Benton Boulevard with street corner murals and other painted elements to give pedestrians refuge and narrowed streets to cross safely.