@BlogKCSeattle is considering taking advantage of a new state law that would turn the entire city into one giant transportation benefit district to pay for transportation and infrastructure projects like roads, bridges, sea walls, and bicycling facilities.
It’s an idea that Kansas City may want to consider as we grapple with an enormous backlog of infrastructure repairs and dwindling transit funding. We already have something similar in Missouri, Transportation Development Districts (TDDs), where part of development’s sales or property taxes go to pay for transportation infrastructure like roads and parking garages. Existing TDDs include the Country Club Plaza, Zona Rosa, and 18th & Vine. St. Louis is already exploring the idea of a city-wide TDD to pay for transit, so let’s ask our City Council to start thinking outside the box as well.
Money sits in the bank for repairs ,but nothing seem to get done. The city council decreased the spending on infrastructure repairs.[with the money going to other projects] So let’s not think outside the box. To spend millions of dollars on transit when only 18,000 people use it just during the week is a waste of money.
@Northlander
Where is that 18,000 number coming from? You’re suggesting that only 18,000 people use the public transportation system in KC during the week? The money for transportation infrastructure covers things beyond the system, like bridges and roads. Surely you use those in the northland. Even if you are right that only 18,000 people ride the bus each week, that doesn’t mean more people would ride it if they could or if it were convenient, or if it you know ran regularly on the weekend.