Fantasy Streetcar Map (KC 2030)

[dtkclover]

Here's my fantasy streetcar map:


disclosure: I didn't create this. It is the map of the actual functioning streetcar system in 1915. Not sure how KC sucked so hard and took so many backwards steps between the great depression and 1990, but glad we're getting our stuff together (finaly!).

[kcmo]

Originally Posted by dtkclover

Here's my fantasy streetcar map:


disclosure: I didn't create this. It is the map of the actual functioning streetcar system in 1915. Not sure how KC sucked so hard and took so many backwards steps between the great depression and 1990, but glad we're getting our stuff together (finaly!).

I have a hard copy of that map. I love it. KC had one of the most robust and comprehensive streetcar/cable car/interurban transit systems in the nation at one time which explains why the urban core is so vastly different than the rest of the metro area. Central KC is a very urban city for such a sprawling and spread out metro area.

[rwiksell]

Originally Posted by kcmo

I have a hard copy of that map. I love it. KC had one of the most robust and comprehensive streetcar/cable car/interurban transit systems in the nation at one time which explains why the urban core is so vastly different than the rest of the metro area. Central KC is a very urban city for such a sprawling and spread out metro area.

I've always wondered about these straight-line-routes. Didn't it create a lot of transfers at random intersections? I imagine people standing around at un-sheltered street corners in the elements, waiting for the next streetcar to take them in a different direction. (I'm sure at peak hours the wait was very short, but what about non-peak?)

[SPonteKC]

Originally Posted by rwiksell

I've always wondered about these straight-line-routes. Didn't it create a lot of transfers at random intersections? I imagine people standing around at un-sheltered street corners in the elements, waiting for the next streetcar to take them in a different direction. (I'm sure at peak hours the wait was very short, but what about non-peak?)

Fewer people were pansies. Hard to believe now, but there was a time humans were not petrified to be outside.

[rwiksell]

Originally Posted by s.davis

Fewer people were pansies. Hard to believe now, but there was a time humans were not petrified to be outside.

Whatever. I'm not talking about that. I'm asking about whether it's a civic problem to have people waiting for long periods on random street corners. Maybe it's not.

But I'm not all that interested in whether people walked uphill both ways to school back in your day.

[PA650]

Originally Posted by rwiksell

I've always wondered about these straight-line-routes. Didn't it create a lot of transfers at random intersections? I imagine people standing around at un-sheltered street corners in the elements, waiting for the next streetcar to take them in a different direction. (I'm sure at peak hours the wait was very short, but what about non-peak?)

Most likely. That would be a huge inconvenience in this day and age.