Pundits wring their hands this morning trying to figure out why the light rail question on yesterday's ballot failed.
All sorts of reasons are pondered EXCEPT one: the Council's overturning of an earlier voter-approved light rail plan.
Nothing hacks off the populace like having their jury verdicts or election results overturned- and this was generally the feeling of the many folks I spoke with regarding light rail in Kansas City.
It didn't help wanting to add 3/8 of a cent to already stiff sales taxes and the fact the current light rail plan wasn't fully baked.
Plus the city is facing a sewer bill of up to 4 billion dollars.
All that's left is the logical step: EXPAND bus service- number of busses and hours of operation. Four-dollar-per-gallon gas WILL return someday.
And to the City Council- don't overturn voter mandates and come up with a piece-of-plan and expect the voters to approve it.
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Do the math. How many cars can you buy for $830 million? Let's say you buy a decent used car for $8,000.
I can buy 103,750 used cars for $830 million. I could give everyone in the city who doesn't now own a car one of my $8,000 used cars.
100,000 people can get a very nice used car for the price of light rail. And those cars can go a lot further than 26 miles.
Light rail is dead because it's a money sucking black hole monster. It's so disgustingly expensive even the homeless voted against it.
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