TKC MUST READ!!! REAX TO KANSAS CITY TOY TRAIN STREETCAR BOOSTERS WHO IGNORE BUS RAPID TRANSIT TECH!!!

TKC NOTE: Here's a MUST READ note that offers AN IMPORTANT FACT CHECK for toy train streetcar advocates touting the toy train above more popular and proven modes of mass transit that are suffering because of political pressure.

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Week In Review

Amazed that both Barbara Shelley and Steve Kraske kept referring to the future when Kansas City gets mass transit.

Hello? We have mass transit. It's called buses.

They should have used the words, "Rapid Transit". And it doesn't appear that we're ever getting that since the streetcars won't travel much faster than a bus on city streets.

Rapid Transit would be underground or elevated transit that can travel at high rates of speed unlike above ground street transit, like the streetcar.

I wonder how many of the people on the Wek in Review panel have ever taken a bus? I just came back from a week in Chicago and buses are everywhere - and people use them Sure, they have the "L" for many routes but you still have to take a bus to the L, or from the L to your home or job. Buses are efficient people movers that don't require streets to be torn up for fixed rail. And in 30 years, will we really think fixed rail transit above ground is really the way to go? Buses are constantly becoming more fuel efficient and technology is making them very similar to streetcars without that enormous expense. The biggest time-saver for buses will be when we pay our fares at a kiosk instead of on the bus which will allow people to rapidly enter and exit buses like they do on a subway.
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