Kansas City Northland Closed Road Sparks Beef With Mayor Q

A former KC worker now serves the nicer side of the bridge BUT that hasn't stopped his advocacy which is amongst the most informed in the metro. 

Recently . . .

KANSAS CITY NORTHLAND'S GADFLY SHAMES MAYOR Q FOR KEEPING AN IMPORTANT ROAD CLOSED!!! 

To be fair . . . 

Council dude Wes Rogers replied that there's a ribbon cutting December 12 to which Northland watchers quickly responded . . . "We don’t need a ceremony. Just open the darn thing."

Even better . . . A trusted TKC reader explains the beef offers more context and EXCELLENT writing:  

Mayor Lucas vs. The Loudest Mouth North of the River 

Folks, grab your burnt ends and a Boulevard Wheat, because the hottest beef in town right now isn’t at Q39… it’s between Mayor Q and that loudmouth @weskcmo

For those of you who only care about how long it takes to get to KCI when going north of the river: Green Hills Road – that glorious stretch of asphalt that’s been under construction for what seems longer than Sly James was mayor – is still closed. Shocker. The official excuse is “utilities” and “lighting” and “we’re waiting on Kansas to stop laughing at us,” but we all know the real reason: Mayor Lucas is scared that if he opens it, @weskcmo will finally shut up, and then what will we do for entertainment?

While usually off base, Wes, the closest thing we have to a human air-raid siren, is over the target on this.  He's somehow turned a pothole into a personal vendetta. This dude has been screaming about Green Hills Road so long that I’m pretty sure his kids think “OPEN THE DAMN ROAD” is their family motto. 

He’s tagged the mayor more times than Lucas has tagged himself in vacation selfies from Tulum. Wes’s timeline is basically just:

GREEN HILLS ROAD  
OPEN IT QUINTON  
I'M SMART

The man could wake up a coma patient with a single tweet. He’s the only guy who can turn a traffic cone into a declaration of war. If yelling burned calories, Wes would be a Calvin Klein model by now.  Meanwhile, Mayor Lucas has his PR team out here doing “serene yoga instructor” impressions: “Ah yes, Green Hills Road working hard at it. We are working diligently with our partners at…”
Translation: “Please stop mentioning me, my notifications are louder than a Chiefs playoff game.”

Look, Weskcmo might be the human equivalent of a car alarm that won’t turn off, but credit where it’s due – the dude is committed. He’s basically the Northland's own version of that “Free Britney” lady, except instead of a pop star it’s a freaking frontage road. 

At this point I’m half expecting him to chain himself to the barricades wearing nothing but a “HONK IF YOU HATE LUCAS” sandwich board.  Mayor Lucas, my man, just open the damn road. Give the people what they want. 

Until then, Kansas City stays winning: we’ve got a mayor who thinks “infrastructure week” is a yoga retreat, and a citizen journalist who won’t stop screaming until every last one of us can drive wherever we want.

God bless this stupid city.

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