TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY TRANSIT ACTIVIST CLAY CHASTAIN NOW ONLINE WITH LIGHT RAIL CAMPAIGN!!!
Kansas City's favorite light rail activist now has an online home on the Internet.
To wit . . .
CELEBRATE CLAY CHASTAIN TAKING HIS ELECTION FIGHT ONLINE AND THE START OF HIS CAMPAIGN PUSH FOR UPCOMING KANSAS CITY LIGHT RAIL BALLOT ISSUES!!!
Credit where it's due, the look at Clay Chastain's designs is just as captivating as stuff produced by the toy train people and Clay doesn't have anything close to their taxpayer subsidized budget.
Here's the word from Kansas City's most persistent petitioner . . .
Light rail initiative campaign goes on-line today
The on-line campaign (www.kc4lightrail.com) begins today to get voter approval of the light rail initiative (Ballot questions #1 & #2 November 4). Two local sales taxes, along with matching federal transit dollars, will fund construction of a new first class multimodal citywide transit system centered around a light rail train line operating from south Kansas City (Waldo area) through the Central Business Corridor, and up through the northland, to KCI.
Read all about (ask questions and make comments too) the most exciting innovative public transportation proposal in America designed to energize the entire city, and provide the people a more green, prosperous, and transit-oriented city in which to live.
The light rail initiative (supported by 4,000 petition signers) represents an interconnected rail system fed into by city buses, low-emission shuttle buses (that expand the service area of the rail systems), and a new bikeway network (separated from traffic). The north wing of Union Station is designed to serve as the intermodal hub of this comprehensive transportation system.
Vote Yes For Ballot Questions #1 & #2 November 4 to make a better Kansas City for the people.
Clay Chastain
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Here's the real angle TKC and you need to hint at this one. WIll the city spend money for an opposition fund? Remember that he won last time so it's not out of the question that he could win again. That's the real issue that's confronting the KC civic crowd and the chamber.
ReplyDeleteA very angry fellow. Hope he is on a low-sodium diet.
ReplyDeleteI'm voting for Chastain just to remind Sly he doesn't own the city just yet.
ReplyDelete3:35, he LOST seven times prior to his "win". Why isn't the weight of his seven previous losses more significant than his ONE win?
ReplyDeleteIs anyone else up to their throats sick of this shit?!?!?. We have many more needs to address than a light rail. It seems like every three years, this dipshit shows up like some Fucking Freddy Kruger movie doing everything he can to get this to pass. We need to be like Germany seven years ago, get our shit together as a city then we can get the fluff stuff. All light rail will do is add to the crime stats and generate little if any revenue while taxing the shit out of us. The only ones that win is Cerner for it is a way to drag more 22 year olds to KC while working them to death. There needs to be an off button to the bullshit around this town.
ReplyDelete4:21: The streetcar folks lost the last election. Do you think that's going to stop them from trying again? Heck. They're already claiming a "win" by cherry-picking the results.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, I'm voting "no" on this one because the ballot language is way too vague and a "win" would almost certainly result in more money being spent on the toy streetcar.
4:37, the street car is GUARANTEED to bleed money. They aren't allowed to charge riders a fare.
ReplyDeleteRail transit is excessively expensive, inflexible, and incapable of moving as many people as buses. Yet when the people point out these facts, rather than respond with factual arguments, rail supporters reply with insults and innuendo.
ReplyDeleteThe solution. Move closer to your job if you can't afford wheels. Works like a charm.
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't Cerner plan on providing it's own buses to transport their employees back and forth from home to work and back at their own expense. Like Google and Yahoo do in the Bay Area.
ReplyDelete5:12, because Neil Patterson is an arrogant prick who thinks the peasants should pay for his luxuries. Look what he's trying to do to Kemper. Trying to get the city to knock it down while he builds and getting tax breaks in the process. He can go take a shit and roll around in it for all I care.
ReplyDeleteYou guys are about 25 years behind the times.Real SMART, CK.
ReplyDeleteWe are 25 years ahead of the times by not plowing into all the "blow-back rail boondoggles" other cities are now stuck with 5:32.
ReplyDeleteImitating everyone else is not original.
This whole thing is sooooo damn Kansas City I could puke.
ReplyDeleteGO CLAY
ReplyDeleteNeither plan should happen....this is a waste of taxpayer money and even more of a waste of taxpayer money is what Clay has cost the taxpayers in legal fees.....both Clay and the toy train should go away!
ReplyDeleteKC = Little Rock
ReplyDeleteThis "Clay" fellow has been drinking his own bathwater again....
ReplyDeleteForward - Yes on 1&2!
ReplyDeleteDon't go away mad, Clay. Just go away.
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