The Mayor and City Council are clearly playing a very EXPENSIVE game with Kansas City transit . . .
Sbow-Me Blog: Kansas City Streetcar Expansion Could Buy More Than 100 Buses
Click the image or this link for a bigger, better MUST SEE VIEW of this shocking Kansas City info-graphic .
But we prefer to ride a train rather than a bus.
ReplyDeleteThis is from St. Louis billionaire Sinquefield who is running TV ads telling KC employers to move their businesses to Johnson County.
ReplyDeleteIts very easy for the goverment to spend tax payers money !
ReplyDeleteIts worthless for the streetcar track to go as far as UMKC even. This is so much like when City Hall went crazy for those trolley cars that Nitro & George inherited. NO ONE road those either. Its too much money, just for a few lazy tourists.
ReplyDeleteI prefer gondolas.
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable. And if we took the money and educated all those kids that Sly wants to take care of, they wouldn't even need buses.
ReplyDeleteYou know, 10:19, attacking the messenger is not the same as refuting the facts.
ReplyDeleteI love Rex. Money talks, and he has more than the KC "elite."
ReplyDeleteFact is trains are real transit not toys and they work better on a host of levels than buses, most of all at helping pay for themselves by encouraging reinvestment. Show me and Cato propaganda and lies aside, that is an observable proven economic fact. One might disagree about the volume of that effect but not it's exiatense. Buses simply do not do that. They also cannot handle the same volume of riders or move them as efficiently or as comfortably or as quietly or anything else. Rail transit works better. Saying you could buy x buses for the price of 1 rail line is like saying you can build 30 gravel roads for the price of one highway
ReplyDeleteRail is the gold standar of transit in 100% of systems worldwide for a reason. KC and the anti-city, anti-urban, anti-transit, anti-working ideologues at the show me institute and their carpetbagger water boys and duped local shills are just not more clever than everywhere else on earth
ReplyDelete12:35-12:39: Is this the new hipster mantra?
ReplyDelete12:35 & 12:39 (same idiot)
ReplyDeleteHow much you get paid to spew this nonsense?
Anyone who doesn't want to squander, er huh, I mean wisely spend millions and millions of dollars on a Toy Train is a lunatic heretic!
ReplyDeleteBuses can turn and navigate wherever they need to go on the existing street system.....what an antiquated method of transportation!
On the other hand, Toy Trains require lots of new expensive infrastructure that results in a permanently fixed rail line. In the future, when there are problems with underground utilities, sinkholes, water main breaks, etc., the Toy Train will have to be temporarily shut down until repairs are made, while the buses will merely drive around the detour.
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12:54+1
ReplyDeleteRub roh!
ReplyDeleteTkc echo chamber = not ready for truth.
Makes the shows shills nervous when the oi polloi don't march to they're phony libertarian wealth consolidation schemes and propaganda.
And the poor little internet trolls and sky is falling 20 something's hate it when their hate space gets uncovered and revealed for the farcical back patting choir preaching self congratulatory circle jerk it is.
Cue the reactionary shrieking in 5, 4, 3, 2...
Save out status quo of disinvestment and population loss!!!!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteYou mean a hyperbolic hysterical frothy mouth lunatic.
That's the usual line used by 12:35 & 12:39 who is the self-proclaimed voice of reason using such newly-minted and invented tidbits as "observable proven economic fact" and "Rail is the gold standar of transit in 100% of systems worldwide" to justify something that would not pass anyone's idea of an objective cost/benefit analysis.
Making buses free for all would be cheaper and better.
English is such a difficult language. Could you get someone who is familiar with it to translate the comments at 1:00 and 1:03?
ReplyDeletePretty well researched piece. Unfortunately it's missing one key element. Suggesting people get their butts and gear and start cleaning out the corruption smelling up City Hall.
ReplyDeleteLiberty auto parts manufacturer LMV Automotive to add 166 jobs
ReplyDeleteNo no no!! No cars will be permitted in MY CITY!!!!
KC got rid of trolleys in the 195s's for good reasons.
ReplyDeleteTrue the current crew in charge pretty much just responds with Blow Me when they are presented with facts.
ReplyDeleteDear samefag: have you read the hipster manifesto? If you don't like it here in kc, you can always move to a city with all the density and rail you could ever want.
ReplyDeletePlease go. Leave now!
FUCK YOU HIPSTERS AND YOUR GRAVEL ROADS!
ReplyDeleteI WANT DIRT ROADS, BY GOD! WE CAN BUILD A LOT MORE DIRT ROADS THAN WE CAN GRAVEL OR ASPHAULT.
AND WE CAN HIRE 8 CHILDREN TO BUILD THEM FOR THE PRICE OF 1 ADULT.
MY CAPS IS STUCK BECAUSE MY KEYBOARD IS ALL STICKY.
DAN COFFEY
LOL WUT?
ReplyDeleteNow we're going to pretend math isn't real? Archimedes just made it all up because he was a tea bagger who hated progress.
TIL if George Soros published a paper comparing the cost of buses to streetcars, then $87 million for 300 buses annually be MORE than $500M for 8 miles of streetcar track.
The notion that a rail line, or a bus or road for that matter, from anywhere to just somewhere else generates economic development is just plain silly.
ReplyDeleteIf you built College Boulevard in Wamego, Kansas, would thousands of jobs be created?
The streetcar was first presented as transportation, then when that rationale was questioned, the switch turned to economic development, even though even some of those boosters repeated that it didn't make any difference if people actually rode the streetcar. Although it's a bit hard to see how empty streetcars going by businesses does much for developpment.
The rationales change; the routes change; the economics constantly change; and the real costs are carefully kept secret.
And the whole thing is overseen, not by accountable elected officials, but by an unaccountable hand-selected group with no discernable expertise and some of who are already cashing in.
And some folks wonder why there's less support for all this the more people find out?
Please.
The mantra is simple. If we build it, they will come. The higher the price tag, the more impressive the project sounds. The more money we siphon to our favorite friends and family contractors, the greater the chances of success. Just look at how well we've done with those two houses on Tracy Street if you have any doubts. Any doubts at all.
ReplyDeleteI think I'll trust my urban planning to a cartoonist for a community paper, an air filter saleswoman, a small time "think tank" shill, a couplle 3rd rate lawyers and some soccer moms.
ReplyDeleteThey seem to know everything about transit and urban studies. Way more than the "hipsters" who studied such things in college, work in the feild or publish peer reviewed economic and urban studies journals.
After all, this is missouri, and we know that book learning is basically for pussies. And if they prove you wrong, just call them names or accuse them of being "paid consultants". Even if you happen to be a paid political consultant working or a game grassroots campaign. Call them renters even if you are a renter in a different neighborhood. Call them a minority, even if there are more of them than there's are of you. Because as long as you agree with me, your opinion matters in an anonymous comment forum for low information malcontents
"Because as long as you agree with me, your opinion matters in an anonymous comment forum for low information malcontents."
ReplyDeleteBut YOUR comment is anonymous, and you don't seem too contented. Didn't you parents EVER* say "no" to you?
*This is the proper use of the word, by the way.
Where are self anointed Urban Transit Tweeters Johnson and Staubio? Will they be offering the holy water to the Midtown flock next? Or baptism by beer?
ReplyDeleteOooooooo
ReplyDeleteI know who you are.......
I tracked your ip. Be afraaaaaaiiiid streetcar supporter!!
Uncle Rexie has methods...
Cato and Sho-me may be Libertarians, but they aren't stupid, and they've laid out the numbers. Fact. NextRail just spews hypotheticals.
ReplyDeleteThe antis have relied on lies mistrusts fearmongerig and other bullying minority opinion tactics, but they haven't shown a single number that wasn't openly provided by the proponents and most if the adult voting base of this city knows it
ReplyDeleteyou forgot to compare
ReplyDeleteMILES OF STORM SEWERS vs. MILE OF RAIL