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Sometimes you CAN fight City Hall

December 10, 2006 |

The Star reports that the city’s attempt to widen Red Bridge Road and replace the namesake bridge over the Blue River is about to die in committee.  The plan was to widen the two-lane road into a five lane super arterial connecting with Johnson County’s College Boulevard.  However, a little thing called neighborhoods got in the way.  They aren’t opposed to replacing an aging bridge, but they don’t think a residential area needs a five lane arterial just a stone’s throw from the gigantic traffic sewer known as I-435.

The situation is a mess for Six District Councilmember Chuck Eddy, the project’s primary booster.  Opposition to the road project has spurred at least two web sites and caused trouble for Eddy’s mayoral campaign from within his own backyard.  Everyone running for his council seat is opposed to the plan. The councilman is even considering a parliamentary procedure that would advance the plan to the full City Council despite the lack of a referral from committee.


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6 Comments so far

  1. Tim on December 11, 2006 9:12 am

    Chuck Eddy is an ass, and he might as well forget about running for mayor.

  2. Captain Spaulding on December 11, 2006 10:53 am

    Hey Chuck Eddy!

    If you’re going to CONTINUE to shoot yourself in the foot, use rubber bullets!

  3. Mike on December 11, 2006 1:39 pm

    Alvin Brooks is just as complicit in this fiasco as Eddy is — he’s just been more low-key about it.

    If this is the kind of “leadership” we can expect from Mr. Brooks, you can look forward to all the things that are wrong with Kansas City just getting worse for the next four years. He believes whatever the City bureaucrats and Chuck Eddy tell him.

    That should tell you something about his leadership skills.

  4. Tim on December 11, 2006 6:17 pm

    I agree, that’s why I will work hard to help make Jim Glover the next mayor.

  5. Pat & Jean Behrens on December 13, 2006 10:36 am

    Other residents we have talked with on or near Red Bridge Road wonder why we would need a 5 lane Bridge and the potential to ruin peaceful neighborhoods alone and either side of Red Bridge road all the way to the other sewer of multi-lane, multi bridge 71 Hiway complex still being built other than to move big rigs along this route. We would not object to 3 lanes and the bridge need not have such a gigantic, noisy and dangerous presence. A 3 lane bridge would suffice to prevent potential drownings in Blue River floods.
    This is why we are backing Becky Nace in the upcoming election.

  6. Tim on December 13, 2006 10:54 pm

    Glover all the way…responsive to citizens, and driven to provide the basic services our community needs.

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