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It's funny we're an anti-tax state with how many miles of road the state maintains.

If this doesn't pass a gas tax vote that also removes the bottom 20% miles of roads (by use) from the state system could be a good next try.

My neighborhood is full of old growth trees and they're not just street trees, they're basically uniform around the neighborhood.

We paid a premium for our lot to get the trees and park view. The same sized lot in a new subdivision would be half the price we paid.

Cindy Circo posted another view with the 11th floor going in from the upper angle

https://twitter.com/CindyCirco/status/1 ... 1862132736

^About half of downtown Consentinos is essentially prepped foods. The one in des Moines is essentially like a mall food court with a street taco/mexican station, sushi station, Chinese station, sandwich station, Italian station, tons of hot food by the pound, nice salad bar and an amazing dessert/b...

You can say what you want about the city and Edgemoor but they're not the only parties involved. This is a three-party project. The airlines are the end customer of this project and they've all done more terminal projects than any company has. If the airlines would have sat down with the council and...

Delayed openin (again),, increased cost (again), rendering of a non iconic building.....get excited KC! We chose...poorly. I have to admit, the decision is affecting my choice for mayor. The delays right now are caused by federal-level delays. You can't look at the city and blame them. Edgemoor has...

I don't envy them if this is something they are thinking about, just because the recent approvals of the GO bonds were not insignificant property tax increases, and sales taxes are already high, especially when factoring in various CIDs/etc. These does make proposing additional taxes of any kind an...

We continue to obtain proof every single day that Hillary Clinton's statement about "deplorables" may have been politically-inadvisable, but it was (and is) 100% accurate. The thing I'm following is if the Republican claim that people grow more conservative with age. So far it's not clear that's th...

For comparison, 53W53 in NYC is on a lot 10% smaller. It's 77 stories of apartments with ~2 per floor

The new research tower is growing quickly in a staggered fashion

The west end extension is up to the height of the top garage deck. The east end has reached a point two floors higher than that.

FangKC wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 31, 2018 8:03 pm

I think there are two or three retail bays in the new annex building.

it's on google street view. there's five street level entrances but one appears to be the leasing office and two might be a garage entrance

I'm leaning towards three spaces for retail without walking by to check

A lot of the GSA is in One Pershing.

Of course the to $1.9 billion cost increase wasn’t real The cost went from $1.4 to $1.6 billion And they added on financing costs of $300 million to bring it to $1.9 billion. So the project cost went up 15%, much less than the 42% implied. Basically it was confusing the total cost with the total cos...

Isn't the cost of new terminals spread across all tickets nationwide There were ~741 million domestic passengers across the US in 2017. Across 20 years this increase would be something like 25 cents per ticket. Replacing 20 terminals at 2 billion each, spread over 20 years is about $16 per ticket It...

I don't know that it would be advantageous to provide *free* busses to all of the suburbs. It's why I mentioned zones earlier. If the cost was free near to downtown and cheaper outside would be a step forward. ex. 12th and Prospect would be free, 12th and Van Brunt half price, downtown Independence,...

I imagine the KCK park will be sold before this is all over.

Federal projects are required to have much larger contingency padding in terms of numbers this year. The streetcar cost already went up to account for this. Tarriffs are creating a lot of uncertainty, so every supplier is probably raising costs. Remember, it's not just steel and wood. It's toilets, ...

How does a system that relies on painted lines operate in the winter?

DIfferent ideas for free rides: A rider who takes 47 to Troost MAX to 12 to go downtown, they get the first and last leg free for using a high frequency, high speed route. So 21 wouldn't get this treatment but Main, Troost and Prospect would. If you stay within a route zone your ride is free. If KCM...

FangKC wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:02 am

"some"

That word is an understatement. Apparently Quality Hill emptied of rich people because of the smell.