KCRag Forum

TheSmokinPun wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 12:09 pm Think it's remote learning actually.

Highlander wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 10:52 am

GRID wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 12:41 am

missingkc wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 6:23 pm Does anyone know what, if anything, US is receiving in payment for this disruption of normal income generating activity? Or, are they just viewing this as good publicity and going with that? Or, do they have no choice or say?

US is fully opening during all this as far as I know. I checked into it since we will be in town this week. You just can't enter from the main front entrance. You have to use the side entrances which is really not a big deal.

Good to know. I had even heard, I think on the Rag, that the streetcar would be shut down during the draft too. I hope there is no truth to that?

Cratedigger wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:58 pm

Highlander wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 10:52 am

GRID wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 12:41 am

US is fully opening during all this as far as I know. I checked into it since we will be in town this week. You just can't enter from the main front entrance. You have to use the side entrances which is really not a big deal.

Good to know. I had even heard, I think on the Rag, that the streetcar would be shut down during the draft too. I hope there is no truth to that?

One of the streetcar drivers I was talking to last week said they plan to be running all 6 of the cars at that time. She was concerned about the route getting bunched up.

moderne wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 9:37 am How is the fountain going to figure in on this? If it is spouting it will block sight lines. Maybe just be operating before the program starts and when there are lulls in stage activity? Maybe no problem with people trying to play in it on a cool April evening.

gfenn11 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 8:28 pm Also important to note that passenger service will end/begin at the Crossroads stops on 19th- so no riding all the way to Union Station.

gfenn11 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 8:28 pm Also important to note that passenger service will end/begin at the Crossroads stops on 19th- so no riding all the way to Union Station.

moderne wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 3:11 pm The stage is as colossal as the station. Is this a long term re-usable item for US that can be used for future events or a rental by the NFL?

moderne wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 3:55 pm It seems sized to order for the station. Height and width match the head house and I think even the gable roof pitch might match.

DaveKCMO wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 7:11 pm Only five streetcars will be running and provide 5 minute headways (you have to go to Chicago for that frequency). We will never run six on the downtown alignment. Too risky and negligible return.

The 5-car schedule will be tested during First Friday.

Highlander wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 9:38 am Was down at Liberty Memorial and Union Station yesterday. The enormous scale and extent of the preparations took me by surprise (considering it's two weeks out still). We were trying to get to Liberty Memorial/museum with a house guest from Houston and had to take a pretty circuitous route.
Surprised the city let them shut so much of that area down two weeks away from the event.

Downtown was pretty active with a collegiate volleyball tourney going on too. Our Houston friend was impressed.