A (somewhat) wise reader wrote in . . .
"Is it just possible that there are old trolly rails from 50 years ago still buried under inches of asphalt under downtown streets? Could you borrow your mother's metal detector one Sunday morning and go check a few streets? (Don't play in traffic - Sunday should be safe! Or, maybe you could get Clay Chastain to help hold the detector while you watch out for traffic.)
Of course, uncovering and using old rails would save millions of dollars in new construction - but I'm sure the contractor friends of politicians would forgo the profits just to help the city progress, wouldn't they?"
An interesting idea . . . For a change, Kansas City could possibly save money by recycling old school transit ideas.
Developing . . .
The Taxpayer Express !
ReplyDeleteAnother piece suitable for the trash can.
ReplyDeleteTake pictures TKC.
ReplyDeleteThe rail beds would all have to be reconditioned to handle the new traffic. This is all stuff that should have been done 40 years ago. Even THINKING about it now is a waste of time.
ReplyDeleteI remember the streetcars when I was a little girl. "Progress" is not always so. I also remember when the wooden benches at Union Station were replaced by puke orange plastic stacking chairs in the name of progress.
ReplyDeleteThe only good thing was that KC did not have enough money to do it to the Music Hall. It still has wonderful art deco accents and marble that the "beautiful people" would have replaced if KC would have had the money.
When you attend an event in the Music Hall, be grateful that we didn't have any money.
The only way to save money on this goat would be to scrap the idea. This is a ridiculous idea at this time and place.
ReplyDeleteMan, digging up the old tracks puts this idea in the Goofy Suggestions Box. Along with the whole idea of a choo-choo in the downtown, of course.
ReplyDeleteThe rails are likely not there, but the legal easements still exist.
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