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- Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:49 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Buck O'Neil Bridge
- Replies: 1467
- Views: 501695
Re: OFFICIAL - Buck O'Neil Bridge
By what definition of "bridge" is the collection of highway ramps currently under construction even a bridge? It's a cluster of highway ramps with a river somewhere below. If I were Buck O'Neil, I'd be deeply offended.
- Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:58 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Union Station Bus Terminal?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8751
Re: Union Station Bus Terminal?
re: location of a new intermodal terminal: repeating my post from 2005 (!): the city's focus plan envisions an intermodal passenger terminal between main and grand. kcata holds the right to use space for that purpose within a future building that might be constructed at that site (current pershing s...
- Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:51 pm
- Forum: Downtown
- Topic: On-going downtown development projects
- Replies: 442
- Views: 326953
Re: On-going downtown development projects
re: cordish residential tower: without qualification, more new housing downtown is to be celebrated. however: 1 - how can a building that is getting $10m in public incentives be characterized as "market rate?" 2 - subsidizing new housing with the expectation that the increased supply will ...
- Fri May 24, 2013 1:14 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Metcalf BRT
- Replies: 80
- Views: 13290
Re: Metcalf BRT
signal priority is, in my opinion, more a hypothetical benefit than a real one. it's all in how it's implemented by the traffic engineers -- e.g., how far behind schedule does a bus have to be before it triggers signal priority, and then how many additional seconds will the green light be extended? ...
- Tue Apr 02, 2013 5:30 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Transit from KCI > Downtown
- Replies: 60
- Views: 12592
Re: Transit from KCI > Downtown
here's a short write-up about the new route 129 service to kci from transit action network.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58867268@N03/8610626794/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58867268@N03/8610626794/
- Tue Apr 02, 2013 5:24 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Generic ongoing KCATA thread
- Replies: 646
- Views: 174075
Re: Generic ongoing KCATA thread
good points. also, where does one go out in the real world to find an actual map of bus routes?
- Tue Apr 02, 2013 4:41 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Generic ongoing KCATA thread
- Replies: 646
- Views: 174075
Re: Generic ongoing KCATA thread
...but in the meantime, what would it take to get MAX Orange to run every bus to UMKC rather than every other bus? i agree. during the csa i asked the ata people about extending the orange line to umkc and they said they tried hard but couldn't make it work. (it's more complicated than just telling...
- Mon Mar 18, 2013 5:23 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Generic ongoing KCATA thread
- Replies: 646
- Views: 174075
Re: Generic ongoing KCATA thread
for additional max service on weekends when the demand appears to be evident, the problem isn't the number of buses, but the cost of sending the drivers out in them. there are 28 max buses in all, and current sunday service on the two max routes requires fewer than a third of them. i fully agree tha...
- Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:08 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Generic ongoing KCATA thread
- Replies: 646
- Views: 174075
Re: Generic ongoing KCATA thread
city council voted in 2010 (ordinance 100951) to restore funding from half-cent sales tax to kcata for public transit. now city council wants to go back on that promise and force kcata to spend down its reserves and/or cut service and/or raise fares. ordinance 130173, to be heard wednesday (tomorrow...
- Sun Feb 10, 2013 5:29 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: NPSG MAX tour
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2160
Re: NPSG MAX tour
^^^ftr, neha. @nehasbhatt
- Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:44 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Scene
- Topic: Sosa's on 39th (Nichols/Mama's location)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7501
Re: Sosa's on 39th (Nichols/Mama's location)
what are people thinking about sosa's? i've been concerned to see so few cars outside when i have gone past at 7:30.
- Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:36 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: OFFICIAL - Main Street Streetcar Extension
- Replies: 3444
- Views: 703539
Re: Phase 2 streetcar to UMKC
good discussion. it's obvious that we need to be thinking about a lot more than simply running streetcars down the middle of main street. [1] - streetcar phase ii is a terrific opportunity to re-think the whole 47th / ward parkway / main / nichols parkway intersection, including the tennis courts in...
- Sun Jan 06, 2013 4:47 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Urban exodus strips KC of too many stoplights
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2389
Re: Urban exodus strips KC of too many stoplights
i don't get it. if the city were removing street lights there'd be a legitimate complaint. but stoplights? the city has been replacing signals at dozens of intersections over the past decade or more at a typical cost of about $200k per intersection. they've been able to afford it using federal cmaq ...
- Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:23 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Scene
- Topic: Sosa's on 39th (Nichols/Mama's location)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7501
Re: Sosa's on 39th (Nichols/Mama's location)
still no sign, but sosa's opened for business yesterday.
i had "breakfast" there this afternoon. quite satisfactory.
more important, the owners were on the premises and in active listening mode.
i'm encouraged
ps - move this thread to urban core?
i had "breakfast" there this afternoon. quite satisfactory.
more important, the owners were on the premises and in active listening mode.
i'm encouraged
ps - move this thread to urban core?
- Fri Dec 28, 2012 3:35 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Green Impact Zone
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9926
Re: Green Impact Zone
whether more money is obtained to do further infrastructure work, we should expect an important long-term benefit of the green impact zone project to be the community-building that has taken place along the way.
- Fri Dec 28, 2012 1:59 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: Green Impact Zone
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9926
Re: Green Impact Zone
there are no guarantees, of course, but don't underestimate the ability of mid-america regional council to find additional resources, whether from the feds or private sources.
- Fri Dec 21, 2012 5:17 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Missouri Amtrak Service
- Replies: 657
- Views: 175070
Re: Missouri Amtrak Service
missouri is one of the designated recipient states for the new bi-level cars so we should see it on all or nearly all missouri river runner trains beginning in late 2015. as for missouri river runner speed, top speed on (segments of) the up track bewteen here and st louis is now 79 mph. i'll be surp...
- Fri Dec 21, 2012 5:11 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Generic ongoing KCATA thread
- Replies: 646
- Views: 174075
Re: Generic ongoing KCATA thread
service changes for northland routes take effect in april. send comments on current maps and such to metro@kcata.org.
- Fri Dec 21, 2012 5:05 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Scene
- Topic: Huddle House opens on Monday get your 24 fix ready
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6232
Re: Huddle House opens on Monday get your 24 fix ready
i ate there the afternoon of the first day. denny's. no character. belongs out in beige county, not in westport. digression: i had eggs and hash browns. hash browns were dehydrated / rehydrated, like at waffle house. i can imagine the multiple industrial processes involved: dig up potatoes, peel mec...
- Fri Dec 14, 2012 12:50 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: New Loop?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8076
Re: New Loop?
back to the outer loop (topic of this thread), much-improved (rail) transit would be a much smarter investment for the region than another circumferential highway. it's all about getting the region's political leaders (and governor brownback) to see the wisdom of that approach to accommodating the r...