Today . . . A bunch or rented busses inspires New York Times coverage and a peek at this summer on Kansas City streets . . . Here's the basics and a paywall link . . .
Hundreds of thousands of soccer fans are expected to descend on Kansas City, Mo., next month for the World Cup, many arriving from countries where people routinely take buses and trains.
Their Midwestern hosts are ready to impress with burnt ends and jazz and new soccer facilities. But officials knew Kansas City’s limited public transit system was not going to wow guests from Europe, South America and elsewhere.
So they built a new one.
It’s temporary, just for the World Cup. But public money is covering part of the tab to move visiting fans around a diffuse, car-centric two-state region, with a temporary transit system beyond anything in Kansas City’s modern history.
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NYT: Kansas City, a Car Town, Spends Millions on World Cup Transit
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