Mar

15

St. Patrick’s Day Parade logistics

March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment

For the second year in a row the parade will be in Midtown instead of Downtown, running down Broadway Boulevard from Linwood Boulevard to 43rd Street in Westport. MAX will be the best way to get to/from the parade with park-and ride lots at 3rd & Grand and 75th and Wornall.  Just get off at [...]

Mar

3

City vying for super-fast Google broadband network

March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments

Last week the City Council formally endorsed an application to be a test city for Google Fiber for Communities, the company’s plan to build its own high speed Internet networks around the country.  The gigabit/second speeds would be 100 times faster than most DSL and cable modem lines.
Competition will be fierce. Our suburban neighbors in [...]

Mar

2

I-70 commuters screwed this year

March 2, 2010 | 2 Comments

If you commute on I-70, get ready for a long year as two big construction projects will make driving very painful:
The I-70/I-435 intersection is getting completely rebuilt. Eventually there will be six full lanes under I-435, reducing one of the metro’s biggest freeway bottlenecks.
Several bridges are being rebuilt between the [...]

Feb

1

Sprawl vs Sustainability showcased in KC this week

February 1, 2010 | Comments Off

This week the opposing forces of sprawl and sustainability will be dueling for supremacy in the metro area.
On the sprawl side, the infamous Tomahawke Ridge leapfrog development will likely pass the KCMO City Council’s Planning & Zoning Committee and go onto the full City Council.  That meeting happens on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in the [...]

Jan

19

I-70 among country’s worst commutes

January 19, 2010 | 1 Comment

A new study of automobile commutes finds that I-70 in Kansas City is the 58th worst commute in the country, being congested 47 hours a week. The worst spot on I-70 is eastbound at Van Brunt, thanks to the bottleneck where I-70 drops to four lanes under I-435.
The Daily Beast: America’s 75 worst commutes.
Fortunately MoDOT [...]

Jan

7

City Council discusses snow plowing

January 7, 2010 | 2 Comments

This morning the City Council’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee took testimony from Public Works and other City staff about snow removal.  The bottom line is that City Council doesn’t provide enough staff or money for city crews to do as much as residents expect them to – we get what we pay for. Now that [...]

Jan

6

Today city considers adding more streets that it won’t be able to plow

January 6, 2010 | 2 Comments

UPDATE: The P&Z Committee has postponed consideration of this ordinance until January 20th.
Today the City Council’s Planning & Zoning Committee will consider the Tomahawke Ridge project, a proposal to add 300 acres north of the airport and beyond the reach of snow plows, ambulances, police cars, and fire trucks.  Can we afford to add more [...]

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