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- Wed Aug 23, 2023 5:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics
- Replies: 3287
- Views: 655189
Re: Politics
It's more than sufficient to respond to the point that "you might die at work" Not really. It's sufficient to try and make your point but most people don't leave for work each day knowing that they might have to try and save a life by risking their own. And yet the entire defund movement ...
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 11:09 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics
- Replies: 3287
- Views: 655189
Re: Politics
It's more than sufficient to respond to the point that "you might die at work"
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics
- Replies: 3287
- Views: 655189
Re: Politics
According to BLS , refuse and recyclable material collectors are 2.5x more likely to die on the job than cops. I guess if you want to define "more dangerous" in a way that somehow excludes the risk of death, then sure, continue to not know that trash collectors have a more dangerous job th...
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:17 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Politics
- Replies: 3287
- Views: 655189
Re: Politics
You can die at work at any job, and it's a lot more likely to happen in plenty of other jobs than to cops. How much respect do you show to your garbage man? His job is much more dangerous than police work, and it's a more vital social service, too.
- Sun Aug 20, 2023 1:10 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 9299
- Views: 12116021
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
I can see the Royals dropping back down to the last few teams in attendance, but doing so that quickly was remarkable. Again, the team was still trying to figure out how to keep some of the players but attendance was dropping like a rock while they still had most of their WS team in tact. Rocks mus...
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 1:29 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 9299
- Views: 12116021
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Ok, I’m sure attendance will rebound as soon as you explain to Royals fans that they simply don’t understand the business of baseball. People will be relieved to learn that the Royals actually have not been notoriously terrible for decades, that they have just been subject to the same vagaries of sm...
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 5:25 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 9299
- Views: 12116021
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
The Royals went to back to back world series. The fans barely noticed the team doing well in 2014 and didn't really start showing up till the last couple of weeks of that year. The team didn’t do well in 2014 until the last few weeks of the season. They were under .500 until late July. They were a ...
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 10:25 pm
- Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
- Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
- Replies: 9299
- Views: 12116021
Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium
I don't know what the answer is. But right now, the Royals should not be paying any attention to what the fans say or want. They should not matter at all because they are not and have not been supporting the team well enough to have a say. I just hope moving the stadium downtown will be the one thi...
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:27 am
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Bike Lanes
- Replies: 787
- Views: 284744
Re: Bike Lanes
What does any of that have to do with turning Brookside Blvd (or any other city street) into a traffic sewer?
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 11:56 am
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Bike Lanes
- Replies: 787
- Views: 284744
Re: Bike Lanes
You seem to think that people don't want it, when actually, they've never had a choice. If enough wanted it, it would be there. Perhaps, you could say, "Not enough people know they want it.", but that just seems a bit pretentious. I ride the Gillham cycle track all the time. I never see p...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 11:46 am
- Forum: Kansas City Transportation
- Topic: Bike Lanes
- Replies: 787
- Views: 284744
Re: Bike Lanes
Well sticking to the specific issue of Brookside first (though we are no longer in that thread), if frequent crashes are an issue at 51st St, I would have to say that mitigating that trumps any concerns about knock-on effects for businesses, especially businesses in farther away neighborhoods where ...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:34 am
- Forum: Urban Core
- Topic: UMKC projects
- Replies: 257
- Views: 115757
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: 257
- Views: 115757
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: 257
- Views: 115757
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: 9299
- Views: 12116021
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: 655189
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: 9299
- Views: 12116021
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: 257
- Views: 115757
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: 9299
- Views: 12116021
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: 220
- Views: 87220
Re: Grand Blvd Closures
Except the police didn't actually get defunded, but sure