KC among the top 10 hardest cities to go without a vehicle

[FangKC]

The Best and Worst U.S. Places to Live Car-Free

https://tinyurl.com/yxm9l6ud

[alejandro46]

The last paragraph resonates:

Ironically, despite the expense of owning a car, going carless in America often requires having money. It helps if you can afford living close to where you work or near good transit, or in a walkable neighborhood with most of life’s necessities close by.

RideKC and the city are working hard to connect affordable housing to transit, and make that transit free. We can also broaden the offerings of housing to include re-development along Troost and on the east side as well as some down town, they are not mutually exclusive.

The streetcar should not operate at the expense of a functional bus system; but overall the bus system is just stretched too thin. When they did the survey, I voted to focus but transit along certain corridors and create tax incentives for density and eliminating mins there instead of having a system that tries to do too much and ends up not working for anyone. Our crap sprawl development patterns are the problem.

[DaveKCMO]

A big part of this is also walkability (which isn't directly reflected in their data). There are so few walkable places in the city that even if transit was robust, you wouldn't want to walk to/from the transit stop anyway.

All that said, expanding service through regional funding would increase ridership and at least give people the option to participate in the economy without a car.