Damn . . . I didn't think Mike Sanders was so bereft ideas that he's coming back to the scourge of Kansas City politics.
Check out a recent money quote regarding upcoming transportation folly:
"Sanders said Thursday that he thinks a downtown streetcar line could get Kansas City moving forward on rail transit and boost the chances of winning federal funding for the commuter rail project.
“This is a new day for Kansas City,” Sanders said. “It would be very beneficial if this downtown streetcar is built.”"
Here's what's missing from this discussion . . .
THERE REALLY ISN'T THE CASH FOR KANSAS CITY STREETCARS OR LIGHT RAIL THAT'S A RISKY PROPOSITION AT BEST AND DOESN'T ALWAYS IMPROVE LOCAL ECONOMIES!!!
Also . . .
IT'S KIND OF IMMORAL TO KEEP CUTTING EMPLOYEES AND SERVICES IN ORDER TO BUILD TOY TRAINS!!!
Either way . . . It's sort of hilarious to watch Mike Sanders recycle some of Clay Chastain's old ideas.
Developing . . .
He does not promote light rail, he's promoting diesel-electric commuter trains on existing rail right-of-way. Cost, about $6 million per mile as opposed to $60 million per mile for light rail. A big difference. Tony, you do not know the hell what you are talking about.
ReplyDeleteGo Mike!
ReplyDeleteAdditionally, the looping street car line to downtown, providing access to the commuter rail at Union Station, would be about $14 million per mile as opposed to $60 million a mile for light rail. THERE IS NOT ANY LIGHT RAIL IN MIKE'S PLAN. This is nothing like Cly's plan. It is a plan that serves the suburbs and not the City.
ReplyDelete...The trains would run to Blue Springs, Lees's Summit, Liberty, the airport, the Fairfax District and the Indian Springs area.
ReplyDeletewow, that sounds like a hotbed of economic activity. NOT.
ReplyDeleteQuit spending fucking $. These politicians get in office then use our city like a board game. It's real $ you idiots - not play stuff.
ReplyDelete...It will go to Grandview/Cass County as well.
ReplyDeleteTee, I don't give rats-ass if you want to bag on Sanders, but I don't understand why you would want to dis improving our shitty public transportation system, something that would help urban folks a helluva lot more than the Eastern Jack comb-over crowd.
ReplyDeleteIts a less than "Stella" idea.
ReplyDeleteLOL Chuck!
ReplyDeleteLooks like Calvin has all his two pro-Sanders, county employees online trying to spin a rotten idea from a floundering politician.
ReplyDeleteMike Sanders = Clay Chastain = Loser
ReplyDeleteMike Sanders = Clay Chastain = Funkhouser = Loser
ReplyDeleteI just wish Mike would drop the hokey terms like "new day." I wish he never would have found that pack of Newt Gingrich "How to use language to frame issues" cassettes (Circa 1993).
ReplyDeletePS He is not talking about light rail Tony.
sorry but Mike is still sumbug stealing Clay ideas just to up polictal game.
ReplyDeleteBrothas love dem trains. Dey be all ridin out to Grandview and shit.
ReplyDeleteI love all the transit weenies on this blog making the same tired comments in support of a very expensive idea that has little public support.
ReplyDeleteLight Rail is a Dinosaur. Giant diesel engines that need to go seventy miles an hour to hit any kind of return on energy cost. Starting and stopping when figured into the equation will require that the distance between stops be over two miles. If anyone tels you otherwise tell them to ask any of the current LIGHT RAIL Cities for the read outs. The facts are there and a lot of the cities that bought into LIGHT RAIL are real sorry.
ReplyDeleteThen ask for the read outs on the new street cars with battery packs.
Uh, 9:57, I may be wrong but I seem to recall something about KC passing a light rail plan a few years back.
ReplyDeleteNo public support?
The only train that has been discussed in Sanders office was the one that Calvin wants to have pulled on him.
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