Re: Phase 2 streetcar to UMKC
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 1:55 pm
"Watch" party on Wednesday evening at the new Whole Foods: https://www.facebook.com/events/1524433544335427/
So given leaders likely know preliminary results and they are planning an event based announcement (WF watch party as well) rather than low key announcement, pretty much confirms it passed, right? And would be surprising if you don't already know Dave.DaveKCMO wrote:3,545 is the final count for @kcstreetcar ballots accepted before the 5pm June 12 deadline... 10% of registered voters in the TDD boundary ("turnout").
4,770 ballots were mailed & 5,044 were requested.
Certified results announced at noon June 20 at Union Station!
yea, it's pretty obvious it passed. Just announce it already...earthling wrote:So given leaders likely know preliminary results and they are planning an event based announcement (WF watch party as well) rather than low key announcement, pretty much confirms it passed, right? And would be surprising if you don't already know Dave.DaveKCMO wrote:3,545 is the final count for @kcstreetcar ballots accepted before the 5pm June 12 deadline... 10% of registered voters in the TDD boundary ("turnout").
4,770 ballots were mailed & 5,044 were requested.
Certified results announced at noon June 20 at Union Station!
No need to be a smartass. Nobody likes daylight at 2 am. . There is a reason municipalities are going away from it. It screws with wildlife and even human circadian rythyms. You wouldn’t put a daylight LED in your home. I would hope the new lighting will be 3000 kelvin or less.KCPowercat wrote:Yeah who likes daylight. Gross.
Gross. It bet it looks like an operating room in there.KCPowercat wrote:My condo is all daylight bulbs.
Welcome to the site....we are typically smartasses to each other....
That's the spirit!Imarealperson wrote:Gross. It bet it looks like an operating room in there.KCPowercat wrote:My condo is all daylight bulbs.
Welcome to the site....we are typically smartasses to each other....
The lights the city installed downtown are around 5000 Kelvin, IIRC, but not sure what they would install elsewhere. I prefer it to the orange that preceded it and it's in the range where security is a goal (and it is): http://www.westinghouselighting.com/col ... ature.aspxImarealperson wrote:Will the expansion come with new LED street lighting like the starter line did? Also, will they use the lower Kelvin lighting? That harsh daylight blue LED lighting downtown is really bad.
Call Public Works and let them know: 816-513-9970Imarealperson wrote:The orange are high pressure sodium lighting, They provide a ton of light but are an old technology. If you’re ever curious to see the difference, drive down 75th st in PV ant night and compare those 3000k to those in Roeland Park at 4000k or so. The warmer lights are much more inviting. Lawrence is changing from 4000k tominder 3000k also.
What they did downtown was fine at the time but technology changes over 7-8 years. The warmer colored LEDs are the same price at the cooler ones, btw.
Exactly. Genius marketing move in the days where commercial LEDs were only that harsh blue color.taxi wrote:The only reason people use daylight bulbs is because they don't know any better.
the more I look at these designs the more I think about how much potential we are about to flush and I'm kinda angry and how shit these designs are... This design reduces traffic lanes on main and puts a streetcar in that traffic. Why is there still parking on main? Why does this not have a dedicated streetcar/bus lane? Why are we designing the streetcar network to be as slow as possible? The downtown segment is garbage for design... Have the people that drew these up ever been to Europe????DaveKCMO wrote:Boards from the public meeting: http://kcstreetcar.org/wp-content/uploa ... dsMaps.pdf
Reallocating space away from cars (or restricting their movements) is hard everywhere in America. Surely you have observed this fact.dnweava wrote:the more I look at these designs the more I think about how much potential we are about to flush and I'm kinda angry and how shit these designs are... This design reduces traffic lanes on main and puts a streetcar in that traffic. Why is there still parking on main? Why does this not have a dedicated streetcar/bus lane? Why are we designing the streetcar network to be as slow as possible? The downtown segment is garbage for design... Have the people that drew these up ever been to Europe????DaveKCMO wrote:Boards from the public meeting: http://kcstreetcar.org/wp-content/uploa ... dsMaps.pdf