Comments on: Light rail post-mortem: Other views http://kclightrail.com/2008/11/10/light-rail-post-mortem-other-views/ Your source for news and information on Kansas City's light rail progress Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:14:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: enough http://kclightrail.com/2008/11/10/light-rail-post-mortem-other-views/comment-page-1/#comment-23239 enough Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:27:45 +0000 http://kclightrail.com/2008/11/10/light-rail-post-mortem-other-views/#comment-23239 the campaign committee made a lot of errors. one was not calling out the opposition on their patently false claim that in order to "keep our buses" voters should vote "no" on light rail. another was to let the 14-mile starter line be characterized as running from nowhere to nowhere. in fact, it was two starter lines converging on the greatest concentration of jobs and other popular destinations in the entire region. i think the campaign thought they could deliver a slam dunk victory if they just put out some mailers, some emails, some yard signs, and a handful of billboards. the campaign committee made a lot of errors.

one was not calling out the opposition on their patently false claim that in order to “keep our buses” voters should vote “no” on light rail.

another was to let the 14-mile starter line be characterized as running from nowhere to nowhere. in fact, it was two starter lines converging on the greatest concentration of jobs and other popular destinations in the entire region.

i think the campaign thought they could deliver a slam dunk victory if they just put out some mailers, some emails, some yard signs, and a handful of billboards.

]]> By: Joe Medley http://kclightrail.com/2008/11/10/light-rail-post-mortem-other-views/comment-page-1/#comment-22933 Joe Medley Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:26:13 +0000 http://kclightrail.com/2008/11/10/light-rail-post-mortem-other-views/#comment-22933 Has nobody suggested racism as a possible reason why light rail was defeated. The question asked by several billboards around town, "It goes where," was absurd. No reasonable person could think that a 14 mile line through the densest part of the metro could fail to go someplace that somebody NEEDED to go. Yet this 14 mile starter line would have enabled people from the inner city to get to the intersection of North Oak and Vivion in about fifteen minutes. Has nobody suggested racism as a possible reason why light rail was defeated. The question asked by several billboards around town, “It goes where,” was absurd. No reasonable person could think that a 14 mile line through the densest part of the metro could fail to go someplace that somebody NEEDED to go. Yet this 14 mile starter line would have enabled people from the inner city to get to the intersection of North Oak and Vivion in about fifteen minutes.

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