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by phuqueue
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...
by phuqueue
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 ...
by phuqueue
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...
by phuqueue
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...
by phuqueue
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...
by phuqueue
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...
by phuqueue
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 ...
by phuqueue
Thu Aug 10, 2023 12:33 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8414
Views: 8162709

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

dukuboy1 wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:44 am 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.
by phuqueue
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
by phuqueue
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.
by phuqueue
Thu Aug 03, 2023 3:05 pm
Forum: Kansas City Sports
Topic: World Cup 2026 at Arrowhead?
Replies: 1236
Views: 271567

Re: World Cup 2026 at Arrowhead?

GRID wrote: Thu Aug 03, 2023 10:22 am I personally thought the city would get more permanent infrastructure upgrades from landing the world cup, but it honestly does not seem like much is going to happen other than what has already been done (airport/tram extension).
What were you expecting?
by phuqueue
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 ...
by phuqueue
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"
by phuqueue
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...
by phuqueue
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...
by phuqueue
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...
by phuqueue
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...
by phuqueue
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?
by phuqueue
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...
by phuqueue
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...