KCRag Forum

The danger of a boomtown (if KC becomes that, with all of its attractions coming online -- airport, streetcar, Panasonic as mentioned upthread) is the vicious cycle of housing inflation. Look at Denver or Nashville. If you think housing is unaffordable in KC now (arguable), wait until entry SFH hit ...

The big problem with a US domestic connection on an international itinerary is the return. You have to clear customs at your first arrival point, which if you have a wife and kids means a lot of baggage being handled -- in the middle of your journey. Then again at the end. It doubles the level of ir...

Many years ago, I was on the shuttle bus from the Boston Logan rental car center to Terminal B (AA to Austin I recall), and a well-dressed, young French dude sat next to me. We started chatting en francais until I picked up a very strong fecal smell from his person/ coat pockets. Guess what he was i...

shinatoo wrote: ↑Mon Jul 11, 2022 11:49 am Let's rename it "Proust" since we are hoping to dream about the future but are haunted by dreams of our past.

That would actually be great

I saw this article today also -- ranked above Vienna no less. Not sure I understand the criteria, but KC certainly will benefit from such notoriety.

OMG World's Fairs

This was an OBSESSION with several of our mayors over the decades, most vocally Mayor Charlie Wheeler in the 1970s. But Mayors Bartle and Berkley also toyed with this idea.

Here is a national news article from 1983...
https://www.csmonitor.com/1983/0321/032155.html

Housing prices are not subject to what we wish would happen. There is an enormous market out there, full of individuals all doing their own thing. Housing prices reflect the market. The KC market is rising. So are many metros. There are other places with stagnant or declining values -- lots of littl...

St. Louis also has its MetroLink (rail), which stops at its train station and serves downtown and its shopping area near Clayton/ West End. Both cities are currently navigable without a rental car, as long as the tourist arrives via Amtrak.

^Electronic doors. LOL -- Germany put those in the 1970s.

Any other Raggers remember the old Deutsche Bahn automated recording "Bitte, bleiben Sie ruhig. Tueren schliessen selbstaetig"? Please, remain calm. Doors close automatically.

Agreed with the above -- PDX to MCI should be at least daily. SEA is 2x daily plus lots of connections. Alaska has some other problems, however, that have nothing to do with routings. The upthread comment about the Kempers got me thinking about STL. KC needs more power in the Jeff City legislature. ...

^Believe it or not, a lot of business travelers prefer a longer nonstop -- when I worked in Moscow in the 90s, a colleague from Bechtel's home office far preferred to do SFO-FRA-SVO rather than SFO-JFK-SVO on Delta (Delta was still operating the PanAm 'worldhub' in Frankfurt, leftover from the allie...

Graffiti has been a problem for decades. My father's architectural office was on that corner, and before his building, he and Earl Salyers shared a house not far from that corner. The city didn't enforce zoning "tagging" clean-up until they took graffiti off the police response list someti...

If Gomer's successfully removes its (not old) building, which replaced an older, conforming building, then, like magic: 39th and Broadway will have lost all four of its urbanized corners. Fully Suburbanized :-) (Ironic smiley) All four corners were all in place in 1980. The fast food with drive-thro...

^ I lived in Hartford for about 10 years. It's a strange city in many ways, more like an overgrown New England town than a traditional city: 1. It is tiny -- maybe the size of Brookside 2. It has a wealthy neighborhood -- really wealthy "The West End" which has a physical barrier (the Park...

Another important "megatrend" is that the postwar housing boom -- the vast construction tracts from 1948 until the oil crash of 1974 -- those units are nearing their end-of-life. They were built cheaply, not like the more solid homes of the prewar period. The streetcar suburbs (Brookside, ...

Miami already serves as the "hub" for Latin America. AA has that business locked down well. They have a mature and loyal base of travelers, probably the one decent and profitable core customer base that AA has been able to hang onto during its travails. MCI has two nonstops to MIA on AA, a...

AA had a full-service catering kitchen at MCI before COVID. They served hot meals in domestic F on the MIA, PHX, LAX, LGA and PHL flights. DCA and CLT were double-catered cold IIRC. DFW and ORD no meals.

I think they also provided the meals for Alaska for SEA service.

normalthings wrote: ↑Wed May 04, 2022 6:12 pm

freedog wrote: ↑Wed May 04, 2022 6:09 pm New lounge in addition to the Delta Sky Club?

Delta lounge is in Concourse B. This change order is for Con A

Which airlines are in Concourse A? This might explain why AA demurred when I pressed them on the lack of an Admirals Club at the new airport. They had one for decades.

Red light cameras, although unpopular, often help curb the worst behaviors. They really do work, as they often result in financial penalties and licensing enforcement.

There also needs to be at least cursory "traffic cop" presence. Cross State Line, and it's very visible.

AlkaliAxel wrote: ↑Fri Apr 22, 2022 12:46 pm “Leaders want the future South loop link named after Roy Blunt”

-Fox4 News reporter
https://twitter.com/jonketz/status/1517 ... WjL8ZVBekQ

London's got Parson's Green, so KC could have Parson's Blunt