DISGRACE!!! AMID POTHOLE CRISIS, PUBLIC WORKS OFFICIALS ENJOYED SUNNY ARIZONA JUNKET ESCAPE FROM KANSAS CITY ARCTIC TEMPERATURES!!!
Insight into how City Hall really operates despite all of those promises about fixing local streets. From one of the best TKC Readers . . .
"Kansas City's roads are following apart. Potholes are everywhere. And our city's top three public works managers were sent on a junket in Arizona. The director, deputy director and street car manager toured the streetcars in Tucson and Tempe. Checkout out these tweets confirming the trip. And KC in the #StreetcarSummit hashtag. These are also the same three that went to Spain before the KC streetcar was built to view their streetcars. Maybe they should focus on our roads before touring other city's streetcars."
Maybe it was worth it. Sadly, most news outlets stopped reporting on City Hall outside of press releases so nobody knew about it. UNTIL NOW.
You decide . . .
KC = Ripoff town.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I'd rather have them learn about how cities are doing the streetcar without all of the endless promotion and hype. It's a nice addition to downtown but not the second coming. And other streetcars are more friendly to auto traffic, cyclists and pedestrians. In KC, if the streetcar hits you, it's your fault. That's not fair. And we have most of the downtown police force dedicated to enforcing traffic along the streetcar route. That's a big commitment of resources when we need those police on the eastern side of the loop.
DeleteThese issues need to be discussed in KC not in Arizona.
Ah the life of non profit employees
ReplyDeleteLove the perks that go with this gig. Much thanks to the heroic taxpayers.
ReplyDeleteLet me guess... The McIntire sisters?
ReplyDelete4:58 - Certainly not a proponent of boondoggles and such but working for the city in the majority of cases for these employees is waaaay less lucrative than the private sector. No bonuses of any sort, etc. So they take a trip to see how other cities do things that KC is very obviously pursuing...big whoop.
ReplyDeleteRight I hope Waldron is enjoying his world wide travels which we just happen to be paying for.
ReplyDeleteThe Public Works Department provides optimal value in designing, building, operating and maintaining the City’s streets, bridges, and parking infrastructure.
ReplyDeleteROFLMAO
It reminds me of the song freeloader it's shameful that why the city is falling apart what does potholes infrastructure high crime they go on junkets get free concert and sports tickets a little bit of high on the hog layup City council the mayor and even the staff I think the only trip day shipping taking is a one-way trip o special white bus to Leavenworth it's time for them to eat cake and a choke on it
ReplyDeleteRachelle Cornelius. Manager, Street Maintenance
ReplyDeleteWhere did they find this one?
Yes the streetcar is miracle of modern transportation.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, voters will sit on their hands (asses) this coming election cycle then bitch about how nothing changes.
ReplyDeleteI could let out a long fart, with the sound of it forming a "streetcars and airports drive economic growth" and city officials across the country would stand and applaud. Then form a line with their checkbooks open.
ReplyDeleteHave to take advantage of our human capital, er taxpayers.
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ReplyDeleteDemosleazeballs scamming the taxpayers..again.
It's not a matter of voters sitting on their hands at election time, it's a matter of who they are voting for. Sadly voters will make the same mistake again.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we can get the Mayor and all twelve Council Members to go to Arizona until September.
ReplyDeleteSure be worth the money.
Remember when City Hall said the streetcar wouldn’t cost the taxpayer one penny? Well, who paid for this vacation, eh ... summit?
ReplyDelete^^^^ Damn good question. KC taxpayers are always on the losing end of the equation. Still haven't seen any plows today so far. Damn shame.
ReplyDeleteJust one scam out of many. I think that we're beyond audit in many of these scams. If you really want to see highway robbery. Look at what the Water department. You're taking about some fraud on a massive scale.
ReplyDeleteKCMO has the BEST government money can buy.
ReplyDeleteKinda reminds me of forte, when things gets tough, go on a extravagant trip paid for by the taxpayers
ReplyDeleteAnd to think that 75% of you dipshits voted to continue the earnings tax when this kind of graft has been going on for decades.
ReplyDeleteWhich 75% is actually only 20/23% of the city's popular repeat offenders.
Delete^^^ Sad but true.
ReplyDelete^^^ I vote no for everything, too bad I can’t get any help
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