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by flyingember
Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: COVID19
Replies: 1182
Views: 268444

Re: COVID19

im2kull wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 7:03 pm
flyingember wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 9:28 am
im2kull wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 2:37 am

Virtue signaling hypocrisy. Stop it already. It's NOT cool.
And your response is constructive how?
Cutting out the BS benefits everyone, does it not? Sometimes you simply have to say "STOP IT".
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by flyingember
Tue Nov 09, 2021 4:25 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
Replies: 5982
Views: 1437602

Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)

We realize you look for every opportunity to nitpick us but you're on wrong topic. NT was talking about Plaza proper, not tennis courts. Really, who did he quote? Given there's two topics intertwined if you're so psychic you can tell me which "they" we can blame If you look back at what h...
by flyingember
Tue Nov 09, 2021 4:19 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: Bike Lanes
Replies: 787
Views: 240060

Re: Bike Lanes

I am certainly not qualified to comment on what the white community want vs what the black community wants but judging from the color of weekend bike traffic on the Paseo, biking might be considered a thing for young white folks. I find it ironic that biking has racial undertones when the city buss...
by flyingember
Tue Nov 09, 2021 4:03 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: Bike Lanes
Replies: 787
Views: 240060

Re: Bike Lanes

I'm guessing the butt-hurtness for Gillham is more along the lines of "With NB Gillham down to one lane, I (maybe, if I'm driving during the peak 15 minutes of 'rush hour') have to wait several extra seconds at lights after they turn green or I can't speed around anyone who dares drive the act...
by flyingember
Tue Nov 09, 2021 3:51 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
Replies: 5982
Views: 1437602

Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)

The heyday of "Save the Plaza" hysteria was over 10 years ago and most of the loudest people were the oldest ones. There will be a change in attitude about development and good leadership from the majority owners would help. It will change but as GRID says, probably not until there's a ca...
by flyingember
Tue Nov 09, 2021 3:43 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
Replies: 5982
Views: 1437602

Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)

Start planting the seeds with neighborhood groups, Plaza owners to City policy makers about need for Plaza change. Plant suggestions in an engaging way that they start coming up with their own ideas. it's city park land. would take citywide vote to change it's use away from open park land. "th...
by flyingember
Tue Nov 09, 2021 11:55 am
Forum: Power & Light District
Topic: P&L District: 13th & Walnut Site Proposal
Replies: 1185
Views: 298447

Re: P&L District: 13th & Walnut Site Proposal

This is similar to their long term plan but staffing concerns this year forced them to do one location in PNL. Up until 3 weeks ago they were going to use 2 spaces. Translation- They don’t want to pay enough to get workers. Funny. Not even close though. For a temporary service industry gig it doesn...
by flyingember
Tue Nov 09, 2021 9:28 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: COVID19
Replies: 1182
Views: 268444

Re: COVID19

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-mandate-halted-osha-appeals-court/ This will be fun to watch and hopefully a court will find the OSHA policy to be hot garbage. Fun in the same way that watching death is fun. Virtue signaling hypocrisy. Stop it already. It's NOT cool. And your response is...
by flyingember
Tue Nov 09, 2021 9:26 am
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
Replies: 5982
Views: 1437602

Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)

Do you really think they would get support for anything above 3 floors?. I don't Start planting the seeds with neighborhood groups, Plaza owners to City policy makers about need for Plaza change. Plant suggestions in an engaging way that they start coming up with their own ideas. it's city park lan...
by flyingember
Mon Nov 08, 2021 10:49 pm
Forum: Power & Light District
Topic: P&L District: 13th & Walnut Site Proposal
Replies: 1185
Views: 298447

Re: P&L District: 13th & Walnut Site Proposal

This is similar to their long term plan but staffing concerns this year forced them to do one location in PNL. Up until 3 weeks ago they were going to use 2 spaces. Translation- They don’t want to pay enough to get workers. If there was a material decline in the workforce size (death, retirement, a...
by flyingember
Mon Nov 08, 2021 10:36 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
Replies: 5982
Views: 1437602

Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)

I think it's time the institution of the Plaza be abolished. The single ownership of the plaza has not produced any impressive results and threatens to stagnate itself. That said, I wouldn’t be too bothered by the Plaza continuing to lose prominence. It was founded explicitly as a competitor of dow...
by flyingember
Mon Nov 08, 2021 10:28 pm
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
Replies: 5982
Views: 1437602

Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)

earthling wrote: Mon Nov 08, 2021 1:19 pm Back to Plaza theaters, it doesn't really need a multiplex but a couple screens as art house and/or films that attract say 35+ might have longer staying power, maybe a better fit anyway.
That they don’t exist today should tell you how well they do.
by flyingember
Mon Nov 08, 2021 10:26 pm
Forum: Power & Light District
Topic: P&L District: 13th & Walnut Site Proposal
Replies: 1185
Views: 298447

Re: P&L District: 13th & Walnut Site Proposal

DColeKC wrote: Mon Nov 08, 2021 1:41 pm This is similar to their long term plan but staffing concerns this year forced them to do one location in PNL. Up until 3 weeks ago they were going to use 2 spaces.
Translation-
They don’t want to pay enough to get workers.
by flyingember
Mon Nov 08, 2021 10:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: COVID19
Replies: 1182
Views: 268444

Re: COVID19

https://i.imgur.com/8Ma4MPU.png https://i.imgur.com/LpsYMNl.png In October, 25 out of every 100,000 residents of heavily Trump counties died from Covid, more than three times higher than the rate in heavily Biden counties (7.8 per 100,000). October was the fifth consecutive month that the percentag...
by flyingember
Mon Nov 08, 2021 10:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: COVID19
Replies: 1182
Views: 268444

Re: COVID19

DColeKC wrote: Mon Nov 08, 2021 3:26 pm https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vacc ... als-court/

This will be fun to watch and hopefully a court will find the OSHA policy to be hot garbage.
Fun in the same way that watching death is fun.
by flyingember
Mon Nov 08, 2021 9:22 am
Forum: Urban Core
Topic: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)
Replies: 5982
Views: 1437602

Re: Plaza move-ins (ongoing)

^In case of things impacted by internet (streaming video impacting movie theaters of course), pretty clear the longer term path is to end up somewhere between a niche to smaller scale as what happened to CD music stores (vinyl stores still a surviving niche) and bookstores (B&N downsizing, indi...
by flyingember
Mon Nov 08, 2021 9:11 am
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: Missouri Amtrak Service
Replies: 657
Views: 158391

Re: Missouri Amtrak Service

Not too shabby a start. New track apparently costs up to $2 million per mile If it was 100% spent on track that's enough to lay 33,000 miles To put that in comparison, Network Rail (UK) has 20,000 miles of track for 60 million people. So just spent on track, we could have 1/3 the network of the UK p...
by flyingember
Sun Nov 07, 2021 6:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: COVID19
Replies: 1182
Views: 268444

Re: COVID19

grovester wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 10:54 am It's not a contradiction to be both empathetic and point out that their demons are imaginary.
In person it is.
by flyingember
Sun Nov 07, 2021 6:38 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3880
Views: 661444

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

by flyingember
Sat Nov 06, 2021 11:33 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: COVID19
Replies: 1182
Views: 268444

Re: COVID19

No, we should be empathetic to the pain, the grief, the negativity and not give up.

If the system in their head is imaginary it’s possible to get through. Giving up in pessimism helps no one.