KC Roads

[GRID]

The conditions of the roads in most of KCMO are absolutely atrocious. I know they are building the streetcar on Main, so that street gets a pass, but all the rest?

And MoDot still working on just smallish projects all over town and so nothing is ever actually done. Replace a bridge here, replace one there. And yet the highways never actually look modernized. Just a new bridge here and there. And it's like that on every highway.

KCMO needs to seriously invest in milling and repaving and restriping streets. I mean it's bad. Not sure what the deal is with Modot anymore, but it would have to be annoying to live there and constantly have construction but never actually seeing an entire highway corridor look up to date and just be left alone for 15-20 years.

I know people hate me for criticizing KC. But the roads really are bad there and it gives the city a very run down feel. 71 North of Brush Creek is still the nicest highway in KC and it has not been messed with for probably 20 years. That's how you do it. Rebuild a corridor, do it right and it's good for a while.

[FangKC]

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[Chris Stritzel]

This is what happens when a city is a 5th of the population of the City of Chicago, 85 more square miles, and has 100 more miles of roads. The maintenance costs and needs outpace the revenue brought in through property and sales taxes. I’ll give KC credit for repaving more roads (they’re better than St. Louis’s), but work continues.

[TheSmokinPun]

They keep repaving that stretch of Roanoke in between 31st & Karnes where the road bends beneath the hill. The problem is there is so much water runoff from the hill above that it constantly cracks & breaks, so they patch it over time & time again til it breaks again. It needs proper sewage connection or something to stop it from happening time & time again.

So it isn't just an issue of repaving the roads. They are doing that & sometimes, there is another underlying issue that is hampering the overall progress. And that's without even talking about the issue with the overall size of the city as mentioned above.

[FangKC]

We're only 42% of the way through the fiscal year having resurfaced 423.35 miles! We're bound to crush last year's record!

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[bones.25]

We're only 42% of the way through the fiscal year having resurfaced 423.35 miles! We're bound to crush last year's record!

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I've been noticing the new asphalt throughout town lately, it's great to see. Even Front street which never gets any love got redone this week, at least the western part of it. Now they just need to do the eastern part of Front, put in sidewalks so people don't have to walk in the street, and add bus shelters.

[Metro]

The city has always been poorly run