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Feels like a waste to have KCMO and KCATA studying and pursuing this separately. Yet, the KCATA plan of express busses from the airport to everywhere is a joke so I get why KCMO is doing this on their own.

So they were established in Kansas City in 2021, moved to Pennsylvania and now back to Kansas City? Seems odd. KC was just the conversion operation. The cargo and passenger operations have been elsewhere and I’d imagine continue to be elsewhere for the most part. It’s just now that the office/hq mo...

missingkc wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:46 pm According to the business journal, they are now a cargo only airline. In KC, they will convert passenger jets to cargo jets.

Eastern has a charter business that maintained a scheduled route for the purposes of supporting the charter business

But unprotected, which means it will be obeyed as good as the green bicycle lanes at intersections. NYC has photo ticketing cameras installed on busses. If you have a bus come up behind you in a bus lane, click and they’ve got you. Do people blocking the KC streetcar route even get ticketed? Not fr...

Downtown Redevelopment District Debt (Power & Light, not including Arena) now up to a $21.5M expense in FY2025, $14.7M from General Fund. https://i.ibb.co/Ptg8gMJ/Screenshot-2024-02-16-at-5-26-18-PM.png In FY22, the city restructured the downtown development district debt. The $14.7 million is ...

Time to think about dedicated row transit into and around downtown? Worth discussing. I worry for the streetcar if/when Royals and 670 park happen downtown. That’s literally the NEPA comment from streetcar. Should we consider alternatives to Main Street through downtown? I mean frankly it wasn’t wo...

Time to think about dedicated row transit into and around downtown?

How does the east loop site not have the same traffic concerns for you? How does this site impact the north loop more than the east village site? Pure fear mongering

TheUrbanRoo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:41 pm Could be totally wrong here, but does adding more units have anything to do with the fact Royals suddenly decided to move like 2 blocks away from this site?

No this has been in the works for a while / was on agenda before that

Not every building needs to be an architectural wonder

GRID wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 4:59 pm Nice. Hopefully they show it on TV.

Nothing so far

How does the P&L district handle events like the Super Bowl? I would think that there would be far more people that want to be there than the place can accommodate? Is it hard to get in for major events like this? People need to purchase a ticket to enter the event. https://www.powerandlightdis...

langosta wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:03 pm Frontier launching MCI-PHL in May. In addition to the 3x daily American Airlines A319s planned for this summer

AA retaliating against F9. PHL goes to 4x daily 319.

WN's IND-MCI loses a frequency during the week in October, extended from the rest of the year (also gains a Sunday flight)

I overheard someone in the new terminal complain about the distances and pointed out that Phoenix has golfcart-like vehicles to move disabled or elderly people around, which would probably be welcomed here. At the same time, I don’t think the amount of walking at the new kc terminal is that unusual...

I've been using the airport more and I think the criticism is mostly off base. It's a very nice airport. I traveled with my parents recently who are perfectly mobile but getting up there in age and they asked why there weren't more moving walkways. I think that's a legit critique now after spending...

They could easily be added down each concourse but would then remove ability to drop in some vendors if ever wanted to. Probably unnecessary I do think they could get some golf carts to the old people. Nope. Not wide enough. Woukd kill circulation, and the below surface space isn’t there. In places...

I've been using the airport more and I think the criticism is mostly off base. It's a very nice airport. I traveled with my parents recently who are perfectly mobile but getting up there in age and they asked why there weren't more moving walkways. I think that's a legit critique now after spending...

DaveKCMO wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 11:01 am We're drawing down reserves in a strong economy? Huh?

Why is the budget growing soo aggressively? Significantly faster than inflation so it appears to represent an expansion of the city government

More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Can’t Afford New Cars https://jalopnik.com/more-than-80-percent-of-americans-can-t-afford-new-cars-1850906956 Most Americans Struggle With Car Maintenance And Can’t Afford Unexpected $1,000 Repair Bill ... American drivers are very close to their financial limit wh...

Southwest -> Montego Bay is being discontinued after 8/3 Wonder if Jamaica travel is hurting right now. There is a safety advisory for travel to Jamaica. I don't really hear people talk about traveling to Jamaica as much, the DR has kind of taking over for Caribbean all inclusive and Cancun is basi...