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- Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:34 am
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: UMKC projects
- Replies: 253
- Views: 101827
Re: UMKC projects
Yeah I get carried away by my hatred for cars in urban spaces. There is no quick fix for changing a city like KC (it took KC years to become the way it is and will take years to fix it), but to get away from the broad conversation about car culture in general and back to talking specifically about B...
- Sat Aug 12, 2023 11:45 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: UMKC projects
- Replies: 253
- Views: 101827
Re: UMKC projects
Foot, bike and public transit will never be the quickest except in one condition….gridlock, and that’s only when there’s an off-street subway-type option. Even then, waiting for train, transferring once or twice and walking to your destination is almost always slower. The idea that you can jump in ...
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:53 pm
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: UMKC projects
- Replies: 253
- Views: 101827
Re: UMKC projects
The future should be fewer cars, so I'm not really sure why we would actively pursue a policy of increasing traffic. Hating traffic is basically the one thing everybody seems to agree on -- drivers hate being "stuck in" traffic (or more accurately, they hate being traffic themselves, thou...
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:18 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 8414
- Views: 8162709
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Rolling roof conversation seems off base. Think of it as adding a 70,000 seat to the convention center. It goes beyond holding the Super Bowl. The cities with modern roofed stadiums regularly use them as convention center assets. Even St Louis's dilapidated stadium! If you're adding convention busi...
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics
- Replies: 3287
- Views: 609616
Re: Politics
Moving this to the cesspool thread because it is getting away from the specific topic of the Grand closures and has a lot of potential to run so much farther off the rails. But I suspect the movement overall discouraged people from becoming police officers. Thus, I think it has to be at least part o...
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 8414
- Views: 8162709
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
I just think it is very shortsighted to not be considering it. We literally voted on it for the last renovation and it was rejected. It has been considered, and to the extent that people are talking about it now, it is on some level being considered again, but it seems like it just isn't wanted. Vo...
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 9:06 am
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: UMKC projects
- Replies: 253
- Views: 101827
Re: UMKC projects
Do we want more traffic on Brookside Blvd? Why not use the excess ROW for a future streetcar extension, improved Trolley Trail or both? The future is fewer cars in our cities, not more. There is plenty of dedicated ROW owned by the city for streetcar and Trolley Trail that you don't need to put it ...
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 12:33 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 8414
- Views: 8162709
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
We literally voted on it for the last renovation and it was rejected. It has been considered, and to the extent that people are talking about it now, it is on some level being considered again, but it seems like it just isn't wanted.
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 6:59 pm
- Forum: Power & Light District
- Topic: Grand Blvd Closures
- Replies: 216
- Views: 68117
Re: Grand Blvd Closures
Except the police didn't actually get defunded, but sure
- Sat Aug 05, 2023 4:25 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Sports
- Topic: GO ROYALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 11174
- Views: 1268816
Re: GO ROYALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Royals are the first team to win 7+ in a row with a sub-.300 winning percentage at least 100 games into a season since the 23-78 Cardinals won nine straight in 1907. I’m not about to weigh seven games more heavily than the 104 games that came before them but it’s been a fun week at least.
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 3:05 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Sports
- Topic: World Cup 2026 at Arrowhead?
- Replies: 1236
- Views: 271567
- Fri Jul 28, 2023 12:10 pm
- Forum: General Kansas City
- Topic: Kansas City will likely suffer 'off the charts' heat in the next 30 years, new study predicts
- Replies: 65
- Views: 10340
Re: Kansas City will likely suffer 'off the charts' heat in the next 30 years, new study predicts
I don't think Highlander is off base here. Just speaking anecdotally, I have run into denialists who swear that "scientists" predicted that by the 2020s sea levels would have already risen by several feet, and now it's the 2020s and the sea has not (permanently) taken Wall Street or Miami ...
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 2:02 pm
- Forum: Urban Living
- Topic: Urban Living Pet Peeves
- Replies: 134
- Views: 62240
Re: Urban Living Pet Peeves
I would just shorten that one down to: "Drivers"
- Wed Jul 05, 2023 5:18 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 8414
- Views: 8162709
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
I don’t want the stadium at all, quit giving tax money to loosing sports teams. I'm curious about comments like this. If it was proven to you that money spent on stadiums can generate more money than spent, would you still disagree with it? Is it an ideological point of view or do you feel a bad fi...
- Mon Jul 03, 2023 9:20 am
- Forum: Kansas City Sports
- Topic: GO ROYALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 11174
- Views: 1268816
Re: GO ROYALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By 2011 we had brought up Perez, Hosmer, Escobar, Moustakas, Gordon, Dyson, and Lorenzo Cain. We lost 91 games that year and three years later were in the World Series. Not saying these guys are going to take us to the World Series. But this season is very reminiscent of 2011. Our pitching wasn't r...
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 1:10 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Sports
- Topic: GO ROYALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 11174
- Views: 1268816
Re: GO ROYALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No results on the field so far. Those are the facts. Does it matter if they lose 99 or 120, not really? But I do think they are on the right track, even though it's so dark right now we can't see the tracks. But there are results on the field, and they're very bad results. In the grand scheme of tu...
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 12:04 pm
- Forum: Kansas City Sports
- Topic: GO ROYALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 11174
- Views: 1268816
Re: GO ROYALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They were learning a lot last year and were supposed to be much better this year, but instead, they're on pace to smash the franchise single season loss record, and if they stumble a little bit more, the AL and MLB records aren't out of the question. Have to admit that I don't follow the farm system...
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 11:00 am
- Forum: Kansas City Sports
- Topic: GO ROYALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 11174
- Views: 1268816
Re: GO ROYALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What has Sherman done to merit any confidence?
- Thu Jun 15, 2023 8:30 am
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 8414
- Views: 8162709
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
I mean GMDM hired the scouting department and made the draft picks that stocked the farm system, so the only part that isn't 100% on him is whatever has been done since he left. But it's not only scouting, it's also player development. We routinely watch guys bust here and then go on to become produ...
- Wed Jun 14, 2023 6:57 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 8414
- Views: 8162709
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
That's not entirely unfair but not the same thing as saying that KC is only "ok on attendance" even for a good team. But I think the (limited) evidence more strongly supports the argument that KC will turn out for a good team than that we can't fill a stadium either way. Another (flawed) c...