Round-up: Commuter rail coverage
- Leaders surprised by plan for regional commuter rail system (Sun Tribune)
- Commuter rail: How much does it really cost to run? (Prime Buzz)
- Sanders offer more details on regional rail plan (Prime Buzz)
- 10 reasons why the new commuter rail plan could be good for you (Blue Springs Examiner)
- Sanders' rail plan has flaws — but also potential (Midwest Voices)
- Social change for rail (R3) (Midwest Voices)
- Regional rapid rail plan has promise — and lots of questions (Midwest Voices)
- Two Kansas City-area rail proposals will follow same federal track [sub req'd] (Kansas City Business Journal)
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note that the examiner article headline is “!0 reasons….” i interpret that to mean zero reasons….
Let’s face it it the Northland wants to get better transit Clay and Platte need to work together to do it.
Why not get a Streetcar line for Barry RD? Start it at St. Luke’s and go to Maplewoods College. No bridges to build , and no large land buys would help keep cost down. It would help infill and get the public to everyday needs.
With 2 grocery stores, 5 drug stores, a Medical center,apartments,AMC theater within walking distance. A shuttle to Park Hill High School would get strudents to jobs and college classes.
This way Clay and Platte could plan their own routes and control their money instead of outside interest.
i think that it is just a waste of money. we need to be thinking about bigger projects instead of spending money (that we dont have in the first place) on something that might end up making us lose money instead of making it.
bigger projects that “make money” when we “don’t have” the money? please enlighten us.
Barry Rd would be s start up line that could go pass the Hotels and on to the Airport a a later date as population builds up in the Northland.
Guess what camille nearly all transportation goes in the red.And you want a bigger project!
With KC making the list of potential sites for World Cup games, I wonder how much the powers that be will push for either light rail or commuter rail. The rest of the cities in contention generally have rail transit of some sort - it seems that such transit is almost a requirement. If KC wants a piece of the 400-600 million, we will have to have some form of better transit from downtown to Arrowhead. Of course such transit will have to connect to a new downtown hotel which will more than likely have to be part of KC’s pitch to get the games.