Found out that the excellent traffic calming streetscaping on 31st St took out one of our last few old school trolley poles from the last generation of service. This one next to Operation Breakthrough is still there, but they are getting more and more rare! Where have you spotted them?

In the most tragic mashup of everything that urbanists are screaming about, for obvious reasons: today, an unnecessarily large pickup truck turned right on red and critically injured a pedestrian in the crosswalk, causing a suspension of streetcar service. There is no excuse for right on red.

Collect 'em all! @kcstreetcar.org

The good news: 158 new homes planned for Columbus Park. 76 are single family, which is all good. The bad news: all of the single-family homes will have two-car garages. If we're still planning for a car per person downtown, and dedicating that much space and expense to it, it doesn't bode well.

Tomorrow, the @kcstreetcar.org extension opens, just over 5000 days since a group of downtown advocates first petitioned for a Transportation Development District after years of advocacy before that. What a wild journey it has been, and holy cow, it actually worked.

Hey, if this cuts down on the people who are evidently only there for the selfies, I'm all for it!

The fact that a lawyer runs TV ads of him driving around KC in his oversized Dodge Ram to establish his "I'm a real KC one" bonafides is frustratingly predictable.

What a luxury that @kansascitycurrent.bsky.social has had to advertise that the team still cares about winning these last regular season games and you should watch even though they've already won the Shield.

Go outside and move your body! Broke my ankle playing soccer over the weekend and being robbed of the simple joy of mobility is deeply depressing. Every passing walker or group ride invitation is a reminder. I hope I never take that simple privilege for granted again. See ya out there in 8 weeks

This is an illuminating point. The fact that we measure our well-being relatively means we can be satisfied with things getting bad as long as they're even worse for someone else. Meanwhile, it's pretty good to be a billionaire.

Trying to get care for a bad ankle sprain with my cut rate insurance and anyone who says our health care system is anything but a disaster is insane. How can we keep doing this?

I have also found a cheap fix! 🚲🚌🚊🚝

🚨ADVOCACY ALERT!🚨 KCRTA polling shows majority voter support for transit funding across the Kansas City region! 🧵 1 of 4:

My college logistics professor was a former Navy Seabee and dude was brilliant. This is real competitive strength for our country. Ask Russia how important logistics are to the war effort.

I would bet actual money that that little Ford Ranger has done more work than those vanity tanks that are too expensive to scratch.

Maybe the Republicans are unwittingly executing the left-NIMBY housing strategy for healthcare: so profoundly break the private market that the resulting crisis requires a social response. The pending impact on costs and coverage will leave millions more without care.

We're continuing our break down of the U.S. Constitution with Article One. Roman and Elizabeth talk with Representative Sharice Davids about Article One, the hidden rules of Congress, and what it means to serve in the “people’s house.” Listen now on the 99% Invisible feed 👉 https://bit.ly/4pJMRLr

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

We had to start this late because Temwa had the nerve to score and delay our plans. But the broadcast announcers heard and mentioned it, so I'm calling it a success.

75:00 stadium-wide Happy Birthday sing for Temwa. Pass it on. #kcbaby

I've been harping on this for years. If they validate parking, they favor the people who drive at the expense of those who don't. True of "free parking" anywhere as well.

The fact that KC is opening two streetcar extensions during the most city-hostile state/Fed administrations is a testament to the fact that things take time to get done. Electorate's knee-jerk reactionary nature means our system is bad at getting anything done. It might be our fatal flaw.

RSVP and I'll see you there!

This is brilliant. Except it should pull from an app integration so it can't be faked.

Where are all of those guys with the Constitution graphic covering the back window of their trucks now?

@kansascitycurrent.bsky.social when some thousand fans walk and bike here, and that is super important to your gameday transportation plan, don't announce "drive home safely" at the end of the match. Seriously. Normalizing other modes makes a difference.

Eliminating the redundant North Loop would SAVE us money. #justsaying northloopneighbors.com

Had to laugh at Starbucks' very carefully worded pumpkin spice latte podcast ad copy: "real pumpkins were harvested to make..." So there's a tiny pumpkin patch next to the chemical flavor factory? 🤣

👀 Best dribblers in forthcoming soccer game FC26 (across all leagues) includes @kansascitycurrent.bsky.social's very own Debinha. #KCBaby

This is absolutely insane.

The glorious open window mild fall weather is always tempered by the fact that all of the motorcycle bros want to celebrate the weather by filling the streets with interminable noise from their loud-is-the-point machines. I don't understand why we tolerate this.

Amazingly, if the @kansascitycurrent.bsky.social win at Bay tonight and then knock off the Spirit next weekend, they'll only need 2 points from the 6 remaining games of the season to guarantee the Shield. If Spirit lose tomorrow vs. Reign, we can clinch the Shield against them at home. Big game!

What is the city but the people?

I have burgeoning qualms about American football, but I've still been known to watch it and I enjoy the community experience of rallying behind and celebrating a good team. That said, the advent of the NFL season is filling me with dread, because it is inescapable and relentless.

Did a car write this? I've seen a lot of bonkers takes lately, but this is another level. Europe is so far ahead of us and doesn't particularly need terrible solutions to mobility challenges.

My 25yo stick shift next to a modern day Big Dumb Truck. We’ve lost the plot for street / pedestrian safety in favor of assuaging tender male egos.

here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road

Latest episode of Multistory follows the "I wonder why that weird house that's completely eaten by another building got that way" to the bottom of its rabbit hole. We share our theories and then find out the real answer. What are your theories? Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDp8...

I'm not here to yuck anybody's yum, and I'm sure these kids are nice people, but if we spent even 1% of this energy paying attention to what our city councils were doing, we'd change the world.

Making it illegal to build new homes for yuppies does not keep older homes affordable. Rich people just buy the old homes and build luxurious new homes inside their walls, which drives up the price of housing. I understand that this is unsatisfying to people who want housing for the neediest first.

"If you believe in government, you must make it work." Just finished "Abundance," and while it isn't much new for YIMBY types, it's on point and an excellent framing for a liberalism that builds. As ever, the disclaimer: building is necessary but not sufficient to save our nation.

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I want to know who the Pythagoras of the NWSL who calculated the exact moment the center circle would be in the shade is.

Well KC, shall we reconvene for the World Cup at the same time next year?

Imagine what you could do if there were some way to predict what she was going to say ahead of time!

Unfortunately climate change is, in fact, real and sports leagues are being foolish by continuing to think you can play day games during the summer

In a full stadium with no idea if a @kansascitycurrent.bsky.social match is going to kick off due to dangerous heat. Scheduling mid-afternoon August matches was always sketchy. Time to lose all of these awkward daytime kickoffs that presumably favor TV & instead prioritize the players and fans.

Amazing long thread on why KC Current has been such a breakout success. I'm not a rabid sports fan, but this team has done such a job of making supporting the Current feel like being part of something bigger.

The Multistory gang gives its hot takes on the free bus debate the NYC has brought back into the zeitgeist. The dreamers and the pragmatists clash over whether fare-free makes sense. Check out the full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEt...

It's also more frequent on an absolute level, even if the prevalence on a per person level is much lower — and thus your actual likelihood of being impacted. Cities have lots of people in them, there's always some crime story to spice up the local news, and humans are bad at statistics.