Wednesday, March 24, 2010

City of KC-MO Finds Money To Provide A 'Drunk Transit Trolley'

What KC-MO budget crisis?


The City Council found a half-million dollars for a 1000-room convention hotel study- more on THAT in another post tomorrow.

The latest found money goes- not to funding-cut city services- not to laid-off city employees- not to filling the thousands of potholes on city streets- not to repairing or building new sidewalks- not to the KCATA who cut bus service for people who don't have cars- no.

The following funds:

From the "Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund- $100000-"

and City Council-approved $295000 ($95K of which is a no-payback "grant"- the rest a "secured loan") for ... a trolley service to run the drinking areas in town on weekends.

That's right.

It's such a GREAT IDEA that 2 rich guys don't want to put all THEIR OWN money into!

According to The 'Never Met A City Expendature They Didn't Like' KANSAS CITY STAR- this trolley- brought to us by rich-guy No. 1 Bill George (chairman of the convention hotel study group- more on that tomorrow as well) and rich guy No. 2 Bill Nigro- will run on weekends "an 11-mile route from 75th Street through Waldo and the Plaza, past Martini Corner at 31st and Oak streets, and to the Power & Light District and 18th and Vine."

The STAR reports "the trolleys will run from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays" and the cost is "$15 for a night-time wristband" so those partiers who still have disposable income "can get on and off as many times as they like."

Oh- you can get an unlimited monthly pass for $35.

Or- you can pass on this whole deal until the next City Council election and throw that WHOLE bunch at 414 East 12th Street (City Hall) OUT!

I'm sure those then-unemployed city councilpersons will land on their feet with jobs provided by the likes of a Bills George or Nigro.
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