TweetThe new planning study for a $1.2 billion Kansas City airport made its debut Thursday before the full city council. It is up for a vote next week, but council members spoke in favor of it after an intense round of questioning. The plan alters a preliminary one approved in 2008 and would be the [...]
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TweetA Jackson County judge today dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the election and funding for the $102 million Downtown streetcar system. Judge Peggy Stevens McGraw ruled that the lawsuit filed by two Downtown property owners raised issues that were already settled when Judge Charles Atwell ruled on them last April. Atwell ruled that the procedures [...]
Tweet The Kansas City ATA has made changes to the Armour-Paseo route beginning Sunday, March 31. All times for weekday and weekend schedules on The Metro’s 54-Armour-Paseo route will be modified. Weekday, Saturday and Sunday schedules will be adjusted to improve on-time performance. New 54-Armour-Paseo schedules are available on buses, in schedule racks and online. [...]
TweetThe 35th annual Westport St. Patrick’s Day Run is scheduled for Saturday. That means street closings in Midtown as runners take to the four-mile course. The Kansas City Track Club puts on the popular race. Costumes and festive attire are encouraged, and there’s even a prize. This year, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kansas City [...]
TweetHere’s an update on bus service for this afternoon’s rush hour from the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority. Due to improving road conditions, the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (ATA) has announced it will provide additional bus service on the routes currently operating beginning at 3 p.m. today. The additional service will help more people [...]
TweetIt started in 1870 as horses pulled streetcars on tracks, went to cables pulling streetcars and soon to the electric streetcars that thrived for decades and suddenly died. As Kansas City starts work on a two-mile streetcar system – its first in 56 years – people can look back on its history of public transportation. [...]
TweetKansas City contends a lawsuit challenging the legality of the streetcar vote should be quickly dismissed. The city Downtown Streetcar Transportation Development District filed for the dismissal and expedited action on Friday in Jackson County Circuit Court. Downtown business owners Sue Anne Burke and Stretch/Jeffrey Rumaner sued last month contending the vote that allows a [...]
TweetA lawsuit filed Thursday contends Downtown sales and property taxes to fund the streetcar project are illegal. The action filed by two Downtown property owners seeks to stop collection of the taxes that fund much of the $100 million system. The Jackson County Circuit Court lawsuit contends the new taxes improperly deprived Downtown property owners [...]
TweetPeople who want to follow the progress of Kansas City’s streetcar system or see where detours for it will be can do it online. The new website –www.kcstreetcar.org – will provide construction and detour updates and more information, the Kansas City Streetcar Authority Inc., announced. It also has a video with music that takes viewers [...]
TweetLocal transit officials are praising Congress for its recent approval of a public transit commuter benefit. According to the New York Times, “those who commute to work using mass transit or van pools are eligible for the same amount in employer-provided pretax commuter benefits this year as their colleagues who drive and park, thanks to [...]
TweetEmanuel Cleaver II Boulevard – that section of street that runs in front of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art – is getting a facelift. In fact, Cleaver Boulevard from Rockhill to the Paseo will get a “recognizable identity,” according to the project manager helping to plan the changes. Scott Bingham of Bowman Bowman and Novick (BBN) told [...]
TweetMass transit supporters on Tuesday celebrated the vote approving streetcars and heard about challenges in quickly expanding the two-mile starter line. The city – as many others had to do with rail transit – finally made it over ‘the transit funding avoidance hump,” said Kite Singleton, chairman of the Regional Transit Alliance. Doing that, he [...]
TweetA Downtown sales tax increase to help build a two-mile streetcar system starts in April and higher property taxes for people in the transit district will be assessed next year, officials said Monday. The $100 million project that transit district voters approved last week was reviewed yesterday by the board of directors of the Kansas [...]
TweetVoter approval today of a two-mile streetcar system in Kansas City could be step one toward a rail transit system for all of Jackson County, supporters say. The 2-mile streetcar system from the River Market to Union Station will cost $100 million and voters in that area will pay for much of it. But they [...]
TweetCitizens at an open house Tuesday learned and gave input on the future of mass transit in Jackson County and Kansas City. Of key interest to Midtown residents is what happens along the U.S. 71 corridor. Commuter rail along it from the River Market area to Grandview is one of three commuter routes under consideration [...]
Tweet A few hundred Downtown voters will soon determine whether Kansas City gets a two-mile streetcar system between the River Market and Crown Center. Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders can’t vote but says those streetcars carry the hopes for mass transit throughout the county. They are critical to his plans to put a county sales [...]
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