just one more mega project will fix her
just one more mega project will fix her
just one more mega project will fix her
just one more mega project will fix her
just one more mega project will fix her
just one more mega project will fix her
just one more mega project will fix her
Always bugs me seeing KC without sports compared to Des Moines or Omaha.
Pretty sure we have a few other things going for us to accrue those extra 1.5 million more people than them.
Nobody has a lower opinion of our city than yes on 1 people.
If you think a rail bridge, bars and an empty arena is the only thing we have over Omaha you just hate it here.
We have a generational opportunity tomorrow. Vote Yes. The no people would not have built Hannibal Bridge, Power and Light, T-Mobile Center. We would be competing with Omaha instead of possibly Denver and Nashville. Make a statement tomorrow
Living downtown is so weird because so much of our infrastructure and streetscape feels frozen in amber from an age 30 or 40 years ago when people commuted down here to office jobs.
Everything feels so over built for road traffic and underbuilt for pedestrians and residents.
From the early 1920s, a Fred Harvey postcard featuring Union Station's east train sheds and Main Street viaduct. The Main Street viaduct led traffic directly over the train sheds. Running both east and west of the Station, the train sheds covered a total area of some 430,000 sqft
Crazy as it sounds, I actually have been in favor of a downtown stadium for years now and was very excited for it. I was really onboard with the East Village location before they went silent for months and came back with the crossroads location which I am not on board with.
@JusticeHorn_
All the Republicans who are still pushing the good guy with a gun narrative must have finally accepted that cops are not good guys.
There's no other explanation for saying it given the circumstances.
Lotta people saying a stadium here fixes this, but the real answer is we could narrow this street since there is pedestrian traffic and not vehicular traffic on this corridor.
Crazy idea, we could even put some trees and bushes and flowers in on this grand boulevard.
@cardsfan597
I think a bigger draw is probably the fortune 500 businesses headquartered here and multiple state universities in close proximity and industries and manufacturing and logistics hubs that all make a lot of money and employ people which is what actually decides where people live.
@bogan_mike15351
Right but the jobs at Garmin, oracle, commerce, umb, black and veatch, burns and Mac, Ford, Honeywell, ss&c, Hallmark, research hospitals, and federal agencies might sway a few folks.
@CBQ_Fanatic
It's also funny to me cause like what do you mean vote no, the railroad built it themselves with their money because they thought this was a good spot for a hub.
Our capitalists used to at least have the pride to build great things because it was good for business.
@JaseOfBase513
@alanthefisher
Maybe because it's on top of a large hill that would be hard to build a train to. I could be wrong but that seems most obvious just from my observation
@v_blackshdw
@PanAmComintern
@alanthefisher
Nah he's definitely some teenager working part time living in his parents house in the suburbs who just discovered ideologies last semester at school.
@ChristoSilvia
@alanthefisher
Then you want to ride coach which is usually the price of a plane ticket. You get a big comfy seat and are free to move about the train and they provide hot water and tables to sit at.
Overall, I like seeing our city move forward.
We just need to be responsible stewards of the public money we give out so we don't find ourselves in another P&L situation owing 100s of millions in bonds we have no hope of repaying without cutting services or raising taxes.
@DudleyNYC
@the_transit_guy
No, this is a bad thing. There is an area ready for redevelopment that's empty lots but the royals proposed demolishing local businesses in the arts district for the stadium instead.
And that's before you even get into how much of downtown still closes at 5pm or is only open for lunch.
I know the crossroads and river market are much better about this but it's weird walking around the downtown loop and the only area open is PNL.
@StgnCarlXII
@StatisticUrban
The Ozarks are far too big on your map. They don't go over the Mississippi river out of Missouri or Arkansas because the Mississippi valley is flatlands and the Ozarks is hill country.
It should only be southern Missouri and northern Arkansas
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@CBQ_Fanatic
This trip to the grocery store I make twice a month is basically impossible on the bus outside of weekdays and even that would be 5x the trip time.
I've been very much pro development and building new housing and amenities for urban kc.
Encouraging development is good for our city by creating new taxable value in the areas that are net generators of revenue for the city to sustain our services into the future.
@mu93161629
It's pretty obvious why Kansas too, KC was not averse to annexing Missouri side white flight suburbs wherever they could. Building them in JoCo instead guaranteed they would never be forced back into KC.
@STBikesKC
They should unshelve it and put it into action.
It'd be really nice to not play frogger in 45 mph traffic there to get to the bakery or kobi q.
@the_transit_guy
It was beaten by a strange coalition of suburban people afraid of downtown and city people that hated the baseball stadium location destroying small businesses.
@DudleyNYC
@the_transit_guy
They were supposed to replace these parking lots with a stadium and housing that would connect to the other side of the interstate which is a historically segregated neighborhood. Instead they're demolishing ~20 small businesses and the star building the city subsidized building.
P&L is really the only project that has not held up and that is because the city holds hundreds of millions of dollars of bonds that tax revenue from P&L isn't covering.
@jb_reefer
@watn_tarnation
Small nitpick but Shawnee and Mission are two separate cities.
They're also weird picks because mission is mostly neighborhoods and one fairly walkable commercial street that has a transit center on it.
@TanaSW73
@RyanMarino
Well one of the uses is narcolepsy to make people feel awake, so perhaps because they were all getting no sleep and needed something more than a cup of joe to keep them awake
@MannyAbarcaIV
None of this is an actual agreement, not to mention the team hasn't disclosed the location for the ballpark which is very important for some voters as to whether to approve the tax.
You should be ashamed to sell this deal so hard without any actual concrete agreement in place.
@ThunderWolf08
This whole thing is boggling too because Illinois is obviously doing this to increase speeds and frequency on the corridor and have spent several billion now up and down it with well documented reasoning. Fully bad faith interpretation from the start and ignorant to boot.
@zos54731225
@weather_forkast
@climatetransit
I don't really NJB ever saying London was unique in any way in its sucking. Just an example he was familiar with that illustrates his points on NA cities
@BarryJamesT
@tomflood1
A lot of recreational softball leagues only let you get a few home runs per inning to make the games more competitive so that's not that strange really
@JusticeHorn_
The fact that Manny Abarca's brain is melting at the idea of needing these commitments before putting it on the ballot is all the more reason you should be sitting in that seat.
@Anthony_Hugo98
@Kylesfunhavings
I would hate to be anybody who works second or third shift hours living here. When I used to work second shift in retail I would often go grocery shopping at like 11 or 12 at night after getting off work. And you just can't do that here unless you get in the car and drive.
@SaphyChaos
@eff_hey
It is, we have revised our popular telling of history to exclude the parts about our fascists supporting the Nazis and a sizable minority here wanting to help Germany in that war.
@chris_stritzel
The problem Berkeley has is that it's not a very good park, I think if they put more effort into it and made it more like E.H. Young in Riverside it would see a lot more usage than it does now.
@KCSportsTEC
It would be disingenuous if KC tenants was advocating for those things but they seem to be pretty clearly against using tax payer money for the stadium at all.
Which is consistent with their opposition to using tax money for incentives on residential developments in the past.
@CBQ_Fanatic
I cannot get over how nice this must have been, when I lived in Volker the crossings were so bad I would jaywalk because it was quicker and also felt way safer.
@CBQ_Fanatic
Like clearly p&l was good for cordish but idk how much of downtowns renaissance can really be attributed to it versus union station and city market renovations and the general desire of younger generations to exist in the city.
@RPMang
@UnconConven
My point was a joke I made in person to my spouse and tweeted with the expectation some of my irl friends would see it and laugh. I didn't expect it to be seen by anybody else because I don't have many followers and I'm not an influencer.
@ThunderWolf08
I love Missouri dearly, KC and Stl are incredible cities improving every day.
However, our state is actively hostile to both cities and continues to get worse for women, PoC and lgbt people which necessitates it being considered a bottom state.
End wokeness is a piece of shit who has no idea about our city and is trying to divide us.
He doesn't care about the kids in the hospital or the fact that our lax gun laws brought this tragedy to our door step along with the nearly 200 gun deaths we had just last year.
@Anthony_Hugo98
@Kylesfunhavings
I can't believe that there are still suburbs around here with 24/7 grocery stores and there's not even a 24/7 corner store in walking distance in the CBD.
@TomGerend
@NFL
It's a good rule, the end zone is the other teams territory so fumbling there is the worst place to fumble. It is a fitting punishment for losing the ball in the end zone because it emphasizes the risk of extending to score and works because all you have to do is hit the pylon
@AndyAdventuring
And yet that didn't stop this guy's donut from sliding riiiiight through them.
Narrowing the general traffic lanes with hard borders and replacing the turn lane with a median would make this functionally impossible in a way paint never will.
@mattstephenskc
@wattasecond
@clmarohn
In the case of inner ring suburbs in JaCo large parts of them have crumbling infrastructure so I don't think that is a good indicator. Huge swaths of raytown, Grandview and West Independence are in bad shape compared to their eastern neighbors.
@CBQ_Fanatic
And residential growth downtown has more to do with all the empty factors and office buildings that are much easier to convert to residential than the three new residential towers.
NEW: Gov. Laura Kelly says she's not trying to recruit the Kansas City Chiefs to Kansas.
“My guess is we would never have more in (the sports betting fund) than would attract a concession stand from Arrowhead – much less the Chiefs."
#ksleg
@turkana__boy
@trevoracorn
Westside already has mansions going in, if we had better zoning they could be multiple units of housing but instead it's million dollar houses.
@CBQ_Fanatic
@StoneSkyline
I like the reuse, feels like it keeps it more a part of the city's culture that way. It's more beloved to more people than just foamers that way.
What party am I in if I’m:
Pro-choice
Pro gun control
Against tax increases
Pro-vaccine
Against lockdowns
Pro death penalty
Against genocide
Pro-car (I believe CC is irreversible)
Anti-big cities
Anti-train
Supportive of the LGBT community
Anti-Trump and Biden
@ziplamak
Abundantly clear who is spouting fox news talking points clearly being cross applied from other places and have no idea how our city works. These people should stop talking about us if they can't even learn the first thing about us.
@STBikesKC
All the cops out there directing traffic and they can't just keep the cars off main street.
It's pathetic and disappointing from this city once again prioritizing suburbanites in cars.
@jrwspringfield
@celisa_mia
Remains to be seen, new Busch hasn't generated any development of significance outside of its bp district. It's surrounded by surface parking lots. Cincinnati's two stadiums haven't drawn enough development to fill the four block stretch between them either.
@CBQ_Fanatic
@Kylesfunhavings
But that's more of a symptom of main needing to be a transitway with no private vehicle access than the street closures. The mayor seems to be pushing that way with the changes he has pushed for with the extension to have dedicated lanes
New: The Cardinals are gearing up for a big ask for more public funding for Busch Stadium. The team president compares the potential scale of the project to two other franchises that each obtained more than $500M in public funds for stadium upgrades.
@WillCorker
@ThePatMcKelvey
@BrianMcGannon
New Orleans somehow managed to shape the culture of the entire country without a baseball team. LA survived as a world class city for thirty years while its football teams were robbed from it. NYC has managed to be a top world city while its teams live in NJ. Think we'll live