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Pre-corona, we were doing about half the daily ridership of DC Metro Silver Line. Silverline having cost 3,000% more.
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Dave do you happen to have the ridership for Aug?
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@kcstreetcar Twitter has been posting data broken up by week
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https://www.wcpo.com/news/transportatio ... d-covid-19DaveKCMO wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 6:30 pmYou really don’t want to shut down a rail system. Cincinnati tried to shut theirs down and it cost them more so they’re running minimal service with the doors closed (for real).KCPowercat wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 4:39 pm With bus route frequency being reduced and all buses free should we be putting the streetcar in the barn till the stay at home order is lifted?
Incredibly, it might have been cheaper to fully shut down at this pointThe skeleton crew would consist of 12 employees continuing to maintain the five streetcar vehicles and other components of the system so they do not fall into disrepair, the documents attached to Reynolds' email indicated.
Transdev officials estimate such a crew would cost approximately $138,000 a month.
In contrast, the documents state, a hard shutdown would come with a monthly cost of just $25,000 but with a restart cost of anywhere from $300,000 to $1 million. The $25,000 per month during the full shutdown would go toward security staff for the streetcar facilities.
Under Transdev's best-case projections, the streetcar could run reduced service closed to passengers for more than two months before doing so would outweigh the costs of completely stopping and restarting the system. Under their highest cost estimates, the streetcar could do so for more than seven months.
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Sounds like the line just reopened with the council moving to make it free forever.flyingember wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 9:57 amhttps://www.wcpo.com/news/transportatio ... d-covid-19DaveKCMO wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 6:30 pmYou really don’t want to shut down a rail system. Cincinnati tried to shut theirs down and it cost them more so they’re running minimal service with the doors closed (for real).KCPowercat wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 4:39 pm With bus route frequency being reduced and all buses free should we be putting the streetcar in the barn till the stay at home order is lifted?
Incredibly, it might have been cheaper to fully shut down at this pointThe skeleton crew would consist of 12 employees continuing to maintain the five streetcar vehicles and other components of the system so they do not fall into disrepair, the documents attached to Reynolds' email indicated.
Transdev officials estimate such a crew would cost approximately $138,000 a month.
In contrast, the documents state, a hard shutdown would come with a monthly cost of just $25,000 but with a restart cost of anywhere from $300,000 to $1 million. The $25,000 per month during the full shutdown would go toward security staff for the streetcar facilities.
Under Transdev's best-case projections, the streetcar could run reduced service closed to passengers for more than two months before doing so would outweigh the costs of completely stopping and restarting the system. Under their highest cost estimates, the streetcar could do so for more than seven months.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2 ... 691667002/
Cincinnati averages something like 1400 riders per day. Sounds to me like 5 vehicles more than meet their demands. Would be great to look into buying 1 or 2 of their units.
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How long are the starter line bonds/TDD for? I seem to remember 25 years.
How long are the starter line bonds/TDD for? I seem to remember 25 years.
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Correct. The new TDD will continue paying off the starter line's debt, but on the original schedule (downtown TDD special assessments will also retire on their original timeline). At some point, the downtown TDD's rates will be set to zero.
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Then the streetcar website is wrong
https://kcstreetcar.org/transportation- ... -district/
If legally the new TDD replaces the old one, then the revenues can’t be separately set to zero without never collecting revenue for the expansion.The TDD’s revenue sources will not be collected until the extension is fully funded, either through Federal grants or other non-TDD sources and will replace and expand the existing downtown TDD used to support the starter-line’s construction and operations
The second the new TDD overtakes the old one it’s one giant revenue zone that’s paying for all bonds
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That's not a legal description of what's happening.
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Is there a estimate of when the new TDD will begin paying?
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When the new TDD board votes to activate the assessments and sales tax, probably as soon as there's a Full Funding Grant Agreement (estimated by end of year -- previously 1Q21). There will probably be some lag as the new TDD to turn on rates, the old TDD turn off rates, and the city's finance department (and council) to handle administrative tasks and votes. That's quite a few levers and all with different masters -- new elected TDD board, appointed old TDD board, interim city manager, mayor/council + TIO/finance committees -- but rest assured the city's finance department is prepared for a seamless transition.KCPowercat wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 4:09 pm Is there a estimate of when the new TDD will begin paying?
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How’d the ridership numbers look through Q4 2020? Any major increase or about stagnant to what it was in august?
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Looks like for the most part KC avoids this problem relying on fares.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ ... n_20201227
"The Covid-19 pandemic has hit some public transit systems hard.
Passenger numbers on New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority and London's Underground metro systems initially crashed by around 95 percent, and they have recovered to only about one-third of last year's levels. And while the numbers have rebounded, passenger numbers are likely to be lower in the near to medium term.
But that's not what worries experts. With cities around the world facing financial problems because of the pandemic, governments may look to cut funding, because ridership is down. That can create what some have dubbed a "death spiral" — a cycle of poorer services and even fewer riders.
"I have absolutely no doubt in saying that demand will be lower than it was pre-Covid," said Greg Marsden, a professor of transport governance at the University of Leeds in Britain. "It will be lower because we're entering a massive recession and because people have adapted their behaviors.
"What really matters is how we manage the transition," he added. "If we get this wrong, then it's very hard to bring public transport services back once they've disappeared.""
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ ... n_20201227
"The Covid-19 pandemic has hit some public transit systems hard.
Passenger numbers on New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority and London's Underground metro systems initially crashed by around 95 percent, and they have recovered to only about one-third of last year's levels. And while the numbers have rebounded, passenger numbers are likely to be lower in the near to medium term.
But that's not what worries experts. With cities around the world facing financial problems because of the pandemic, governments may look to cut funding, because ridership is down. That can create what some have dubbed a "death spiral" — a cycle of poorer services and even fewer riders.
"I have absolutely no doubt in saying that demand will be lower than it was pre-Covid," said Greg Marsden, a professor of transport governance at the University of Leeds in Britain. "It will be lower because we're entering a massive recession and because people have adapted their behaviors.
"What really matters is how we manage the transition," he added. "If we get this wrong, then it's very hard to bring public transport services back once they've disappeared.""
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Ridership numbers are on the website, there's a chart for the yearAnthony_Hugo98 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 27, 2020 10:19 am How’d the ridership numbers look through Q4 2020? Any major increase or about stagnant to what it was in august?
https://kcstreetcar.org/ridership/
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I would be surprised if there isn't an impact but certainly less than fare reliant systemsaknowledgeableperson wrote: ↑Sun Dec 27, 2020 9:19 pm Looks like for the most part KC avoids this problem relying on fares.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ ... n_20201227
The property taxes didn't go down and that certainly helps, it's the sales tax decline. Even 10,000 workers spending $10 on lunch each day is $250k in lost revenue per year and there's more than 110,000 workers downtown normally.
The board meeting minutes from September allude to revenue declining
https://kcstreetcar.org/wp-content/uplo ... g-Mins.pdf
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ordinance introduced that appears to transfer part of the current southern substation plot and access way over to PIEA. I believe this is in preparation for The Podium project.
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Something that drives me crazy but I am sure there is a reason for.
I’ll use the northbound crossroads stop as an example. The streetcar constantly gets stopped at the 19th st red light only to finally cross the street and immediately stop again for the crossroads stop.
Someone please explain to me why this happens and the streetcar isn’t given signal priority. It drives me mad every time I see it happen and makes me lose all faith in traffic engineers.
I’ll use the northbound crossroads stop as an example. The streetcar constantly gets stopped at the 19th st red light only to finally cross the street and immediately stop again for the crossroads stop.
Someone please explain to me why this happens and the streetcar isn’t given signal priority. It drives me mad every time I see it happen and makes me lose all faith in traffic engineers.