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Old 08-05-2011, 09:44 AM
 
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Old 08-06-2011, 03:32 PM
 
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Here's the SmartMoves site for Commuter Rail in KC...

Jackson County Commuter Corridor Alternatives Analysis

Here's the timeline, and yes, at this stage it's yet another study...
http://www.kcsmartmoves.org/pdf/jack...t-Schedule.pdf

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Old 08-06-2011, 03:45 PM
 
Location: Washington, DC area
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I worked on this project 3 years ago and they had the corridors detailed down where new track would go, where they would run on the streets and where they would run in existing right of way.

They must have started over again.
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Old 08-17-2011, 09:04 AM
 
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Streetcar party Aug 23 at Union Station...

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Old 08-22-2011, 08:52 AM
 
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Streetcars could be running in downtown KC by 2015 - KansasCity.com (http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/21/3090249/streetcars-could-be-running-downtown.html - broken link)
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Old 08-23-2011, 08:55 AM
 
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Pics of the streetcar proposed...
Streetcar on display at Union Station - Photo Gallery - KansasCity.com (http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/23/3092645/streetcar-on-display-at-union.html#slide-1 - broken link)
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Old 09-02-2011, 09:01 AM
 
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This is an interesting turn of events...
Working on (acquiring) the railroad (http://www.lsjournal.com/2011/09/01/72270/working-on-acquiring-the-railroad.html - broken link)
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Old 09-02-2011, 09:03 AM
 
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Which other industrial wasteland cities have lightrail?
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Old 09-02-2011, 09:59 AM
 
Location: Tower Grove East, St. Louis, MO
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Well Light Rail alone would leave out some cities with comprehensive systems like Chicago which doesn't have light rail per se. And I'm not sure exactly what qualifies a city as being an "industrial wasteland" so I'll ignore all that and list older manufacturing cities that have some form of non-bus public transit

Chicago, Philly, St. Louis, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Newark, Jersey City and Cleveland. And Memphis, New Orleans and Little Rock have trolleys.
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Old 09-02-2011, 11:10 AM
 
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God, those Little Rock Trolleys are worthless. I hate it when people mention that Little Rock has light rail or trolleys. It has a couple of EXTREMELY slow vintage streetcars that go back and forth across the river. I'm not saying anything about you aragx6, I just see the press say it sometimes. (Little Rock has light rail and KC doesn't). Well, not really.

I would compare KC to more of a Denver rather than a Cleveland when it comes to light rail and LRT works well in Cleveland. The system in Cleveland is pretty old and Downtown (and the rest of the central urban corridor (river to plaza) is more developed than Cleveland to support transit.

Also, cities much smaller than KC have full blown LRT. Buffalo, Norfolk, Tacoma, Charlotte etc. And many cities similar in size do like Sacramento, San Diego.

KC is by no means any less fit for light rail than most of those other cities. KC's biggest problem is the the political lay of the land.

The density of the city is not contained within KCMO city limits. The spine is, but outside of Downtown, the line have to quickly exit KCMO and enter other areas. So most of the city would have to fund LRT that would only work in a small part of the city. The only corridors where LRT would work are from Downtown to Blue Springs along 70 and from Downtown to Olathe along 35 and possibly something straight south into SKC.

But built up density of the area mostly flows from the old northeast (and somewhat along the 70 east corridor) all the way to olathe in a southwestern angle and that would require MO and KS to actually get along and do something productive which we all know doesn't seem possible.
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