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I wouldn't! But Kansas City just did...

The ATA isn't really accountable to anybody in practice.

Your argument sounds logical but is still incorrect. With SkyTran, for example, you don't need signaling equipment, switches, rails and ties, or expensive rights-of-way. There are a lot more cars but they are relatively tiny (2 passenger) and extremely cheap to mass produce. The guideway and the sup...

Absolutely, I agree. Unfortunately, it would be a lot more than $500,000 to build an initial half mile test guideway -- the $1,000,000 / mile figure is based on building an entire system, so the manufacturing costs for all the parts goes down because they can be mass produced, introducing economies ...

Ah just luv the small minds I am surrounded by. That guy who made that site must be a moron, because there is no way a goverment would help fund just an expirment. First of all, it's not any more of an experiment than any other transit. It hasn't been built before, but that doesn't qualify it as an ...

Come on. You claim light rail isn't "proven." Listen you philistines, I didn't claim that. It is "proven" -- proven to cost a shitload of money, although it does get people sort of where they are going. What about your maglev system? It hasn't even been attempted. The technology...

Fried gravy logs!?

Oh my...

Absolutely! I have a feeling that the people of KC would be extremely pissed if the whole truth came out, hopefully to the point of booting these crooks out of City Hall and replacing them with people who can better capitalize on and prolong / maximize the inevitable revitalization that midsize citi...

Um, no. I was using it to refute your argument that we shouldn't build light rail because it doesn't pay for itself. By your logic, we shouldn't build schools because they are expensive and don't pay for themselves. Unfortunately, you can't refute my argument in that way, because my argument isn't ...

bathtub gin, speakeasies and brothels are the answer to 18th and Vine. Bring it back! We can't have the culturally magnificent 18th and Vine of yesteryear, unfortunately. If we want the culturally magnificent modern equivelant of 18th and Vine, we need some marijuana "coffeshops", bars an...

It never smells too bad by Downtown, only out by I-435 ocationally. But the same could be said for major waterways in any major city.

I drive across the L&C Viaduct twice a day, and it smells like sewage more often than not. Either sewage or, sometimes, baked goods.

Mean- were you the one talking about mag-lev before? If so, and that is better in so many ways, why do you think the city doesn't give it any thought? Because the city isn't as interested in creating a good transit system as they are in creating an expensive transit system. "Why," you may...

I would be all about the light rail if there weren't better solutions. It can help traffic, it can help promote urban development, and riderships are usually pretty high on intelligently built systems. But when there exist alternatives which are cheaper to build, cheaper to run and maintain, safer, ...

Why doesn't anybody ever go "down to the river" for boating and recreation? Is because of all the industrial nastiness and the wafting scent of sewage?

I will say it again, and I'm sure it won't be the last time: Light rail sucks! SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS! Seriously. It is a waste of money, and it sucks at the tax teat forever -- it will never be able to pay for itself. Not to mention that once you invest all that money in track and trains and infrastruct...

Why? Is it really worth seeing? If I want a good 'jazz district' I'll drive down to New Orleans. Kansas City, for all its jazz history, has one piss poor jazz present.

Same goes for the museums on 18th & Vine. Sort of. 18th & Vine was once a thriving, vibrant black cultural district. Undoubtedly the best in the city, probably in the state, possibly in the country. It eventually went to shit instead of being preserved as it should have been, and then inste...

KC wrote:sounds like the owners of the peachtree are having a tiff with the development people.....

But they sure aren't having a TIF! Woahooo, watch out!

I really can't see a large gay contingent being welcomed in Westport. I know I would not feel safe going there and being visibly gay. I'm not sure we could dance together without harrassment. Too many drunken fools who would feel the need to demonstrate their manhood. I wish I could say, "no m...

Wonder how much of it will end up being used to build parking garages on the plaza.