FangKC wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:48 pm
Another point I'd like to make is that I used to work in a state government. It was often public actions like these making politicians and public employees the subject of these types of actions that caused them to do something to solve the problem.
Having the media cover actions -- whether you approve of it or not -- often produces results over time.
And they have adopted the very real talking point of
counties providing funding for transit, which is the (successful) model on the Kansas side of the metro. Putting counties in charge reduces the fractures created by city-only funding that we've seen with KCMO, NKC, Gladstone, Raytown, Blue Springs, Lee's Summit, etc.
This talking point is now almost universally accepted as the approach for improving the transit system and building projects we are planning but don't yet have funding to build and operate (airport, east/west, northrail, bi-state regional corridor -- which, oh by the way, all span municipal boundaries).