This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Riverfront Extension Opening

Episode Date: May 25, 2026

Mike had the opportunity to attend the opening of the Riverfront Extension of the KC Streetcar system.  And... he was on the second streetcar out of the brand new stop!  We'll share our recording of the ceremony as well as Mike's experience on the line.

Hello, Every week, we'll go in live, Stories told their eyes and dive, Topics fresh with every spin, You won't guess what's coming in. Every week, a new surprise, minds away, never lies, Conversations bold and free,

tuning now, just waiting, just press play, we're on our way, voice a sharp opinion. Hello, everybody, welcome to the podcast, a very special episode for you today one then yeah we just got to get off the of the of the Schneid previously we did the Main Street extension for the Casey Street car an episode that I admits to screwing up to the point that I had to pull the original and put new one out that was rejiggered everything as not the

today because I'm talking to you with my standard equipment in my studio if you will. And yeah, today is about the second streetcar extension for the Kansas Streetcar system. And that would be the Riverfront extension. not as big as the original extension, the Main Street Extension, which runs three and a half miles from Union Station down to the UMKC campus. This one is much shorter, like two-thirds of a mile, but connects the river market to the riverfront. so yeah it's just

yeah just the track coexisting with the track they already use to get street cars in and of the depot

every day and continues over a bridge that's that goes over rail actually

so so it's on the rail that we are famous a railhead for it goes over that and stops right in the middle of a riverfront park in the middle of some new development that's been going on the past 10 years past the former dog bar where the dog take you back home and yeah it's a single it can fit two street cars right now

I am aware that they have plans to put a second track in so they can handle more so similar to how the UMKC stop is now. And what's really cool is even though it's just the one single track, it opens on both sides. So on one side you have the standard setup with the little shut. shelter and everything in the marker and they got two of those actually and on the other side they have a they call it the K the CP KC pkc pavilion it's basically just a giant metal shelter with fancy lights on top and I think it's a really cool idea to put in especially on warm sunny days like it wound up being today then we're recording this and I'm

recording this pretty much as soon as I'm getting home from the festivities and I got to ride the entire line a couple times today so and I met some YouTubers while I was there and got to show them around and I'll talk about that a little bit but first let's get to the actual ceremony that happened today. So hope we enjoy this. I'm Tom Garron, Executive Director of the Kansas City Streetcar Authority and it is my honor to welcome you today to the grand opening of the KC Street Car River Front Extension. To some, this may be a small project, but make no mistake, today is a big, big day. Today is the day where we reconnect the riverfront. Today we bring our city,

back to where it all started. To say these things are hard is an understatement. Ten years ago, a few folks got on board with a vision to reconnect our riverfront using the promise of connection and the belief that refacing our river could help drive an even bigger vision forward. Joe Perry, Michael Collins, our ATA friends, many in the room, many that you'll hear from up on stage today, rally behind. a small little $150,000 feasibility study to think about how we might leverage the opportunity of streetcar extension to the riverfront to move our city forward. That small investment led to a $13 million federal grant. You'll hear from our federal stakeholders here in just a moment.

And then, of course, we had COVID, and we had an industry-wide supply chain challenge. We had cost challenges. We had funding challenges, but our partners stepped up. year after a year our partners stepped up and it was a never say die attitude and well I'm happy to report you know how this ends at the conclusion of 10 years of believing we are here today to open a 62 million dollar riverfront streetcar extension into five million dollar cpkc pavilion kc members in big endeavors it takes a village a team of believers and literally hundreds of doers I want to first recognize our core project partners, Kansas Streetcar Authority, Board of Directors, the KC, ATA,

the City of Kansas City, and of course, C, C. Together, they launched this effort 10 years ago, and each agency brought forth a unique skill set. Things that they were great at, things that they allowed to provide us, this opportunity to bring this project for life. No one in any community of this by themselves and took all of us.

You'll hear from Karen Butler, and Congressman, I believe we're in a moment, but I also want to recognize and thank our federal delegation, our FTA, Region 7, and our partners at the Mid-America Regional Council. Over $30 million in federal funding from a multitude of programs came together to make this support and this project and this vision of possibility. Without that federal support of this project does not happen. And of course, I want to thank and recognize the doers our project management team and our executive management team from the agencies who are doing the hard work each and every day

to deliver this to our construction team. If you were involved with the construction, the planning, design, you know who you are, RBE, RS, Electric, Burns and Max, Sainer, H-T-R-H-B, raise your hands, please. Give a clap to the question. I want to thank our streetcar team, our operators, our maintainers, our K-C-S-E,

staff thank you for without years of building public confidence in the value of what we do and the impact we have been leading our city to a better future this opening is not possible and last but not least of course I want to thank all of you who are here we've been joining us and supporting us over the course of the last 10 years as we work together on a vision for our riverfront and the power of public transit to reshape and regrow our communities today together we reconnect our riverfront for the next generation. So it is, it is now my mistake father to welcome the Streetcar Authority Board of direct chairman of the Board of the

District of Authority Michael Cullins. Good one, how are you? Okay, we're not the downtown part of the streetcar we're not the Plaza Streetcar. This is Berkeley River Front. I want to hear a little bit better good morning than that. Our first and foremost, thank you for allowing me to speak to you all. I want to acknowledge our board. So those of you are current board members and past board members, I've seen a couple of you. If you're standing up board members, please raise your hand. Or current board members, please stand up.

I want to give you a round of applause. So one thing is important here is we're talking about reconnecting Berkeley Riverfront or the riverfront to the city. A couple things. Whoever would have thought that we would. have a street car starting here right in front of the riverfront and navigating all the way to you and Casey in the country court plan. Who would have thought that? So one thing I want to make sure that we all understand is at one point we have all talked about what Berkeley Riverfront

wasn't or has not been in the past or what the street or not even talking about the street car and what was going through. I think we should stop talking about. about that. It's talking about what Berkeley Riverfront is, what the streetcar means. We are connecting the city in a way that we have not done in decades. And what we are doing now is just the beginning. But I want you all to understand something. I'll be brief. This is not something that one person or one group did. There are scores of people to thank along the years, along the decades. Congressman Cleaver giving us starting as mayor and helping bring the Berkeley Riverfront, giving us Berkeley Riverfront as a, there are so many people, the city council helping us throughout.

Mayor Lucas giving us the drive and the push to keep moving forward on Berkeley Riverfront and the streetcar. We could name scores and scores of people. I will say this, this was not done by one group alone. This was done with a lot of people, a lot of your support out here, and if you weren't named, we apologize, but more importantly, you played a critical role in making sure this happen. So thank you very much. Next up, I would like to introduce John Stevens, president and CEO of Port Casey, without Port's perseverance, without their dedication, their financial support, and believing in a bigger vision that extends beyond streetcar. none of this would be possible. John, good morning, everyone. What a gorgeous day at Berkeley Riverfront.

And, I can't tell you. So, like Michael said, it took an incredible group. I want to highlight something that I don't think we talk enough about. And that's vision. And the fact that it wasn't that long ago, you know, you look out here now, everybody. I mean, I get stopped. People are like, oh, of course, this is logic. Like why? Why didn't we do this years ago? This is easy. We should be doing this. Why did you like look at all this development? It's all happening

No. No, no. It took a team dedicated for many many years Many of the people right behind me for many years the folks out here and I want to highlight a group that doesn't get the credit they ever deserve and that's the poor KC staff former and current. Would you please wave? Please everyone that team. That team. lives and breeds this park and has lived and breed this riverfront for decades and they believe in it and they believed in it honestly back when not many people believed in it but like I said a lot of people did believe in it and we got here today through hard work perseverance teamwork and one of the biggest things I want to leave you with in these remarks is you know when we get to

the point of creating something like this and the funding and all the political all of it comes together like all right we're going to build this and we get to the point where we say Kansas City deserves this. We need to dream bigger. We need to say, okay, Kansas City deserves this, but they deserve more. They deserve bigger. They deserve better. They deserve more artistic.

They deserve creators in our community. They deserve what is next in our city to inspire people for what's next. Because guess what? We are just getting started down here. And we're just getting started in our city. and hopefully the millions of people that are going to be on this riverfront and everything that's happening with all of our incredible partners, from CPKC Stadium to all the developers, everybody down here. We're just getting started here.

We want this to be the inspiration for every corner of our community, every connected neighborhood, every piece of it, to start here, connect here, and see what, everything that we do here can be bigger, better, and more valuable. for the future. And I'll end with one that Congressman Cleaver, who honestly, this entire riverfront would not be here without for Congressmen, without Congressman Cleaver. He handed it on to person after person after person. And every one of us that has carried that torch has believed. And, you know, I'll use a phrase. He said, I think he said, maybe I made it up. I don't know, but it's a good one. So he can take credit for it. Is, you know, this riverfront is a a 35-year overnight success to the people that come down here right now. And you know what? That's okay. We want everybody who comes who's down here for the first time today

and everybody who comes next to think, this is great. Now let's just go. So let's go. Thank you. Next up, I would like to introduce Bridget Williams, chairwoman of the KCA Board of Commissioners. Ten years ago, we made a call to the ATA and we said, We need you to be a grantee on a federal grant and part of the feasibility study and they said We are happy to do it and ever since then they've been leading the way the advancement of the future project and a host of other things Thank you to the ATA Today today is to see the region come together in such a way is really a testament to where Casey is going I would be remiss if I did not thank Congressman Cleaver with his new fresh year

haircut. I can't go a moment without harassing him. But today is a great day for Kansas City. The K-C-A-T-A was proud to be the project manager

of this project and the federal grant recipient. You know, this is not just about infrastructure. development. This is about connecting communities, getting people to jobs, economic development, and to all of those things for our visitors, our hundreds and thousands of visitors that are coming here for FIFA that are going to be here in the future. I want to give a shout out to all those contractors and their employees who

made this work. The CAT staff to raise their hand to make this happen. And I just want to say I'm proud of Kansas City and I'm glad to be a part of a project that will live beyond any of us. Thank you. Next up, I would like to introduce Mario Vasquez, our great city manager. Mario. I was told I have 30 minutes. I'm going to use all of it.

So first of all, I want to welcome you all to the Bremen. and thank you for being here. I always start by saying this. Anytime we see infrastructure, you're speaking my language. I love everything that we do and everything that we have done in Kansas City continue to do. As I was walking in, somebody mentioned to me, isn't today a great day in Kansas City?

And when I said to them, well, today is Monday. And I'm not being flip, I'm just saying, because we are doing so many great things in Kansas City that today is just another day for us to be great. So I want to congratulate everybody that's been involved in this project. I know it's been a partnership, everybody said it, and we'll say it again, is to say the ATA,

the Port Authority, Kansas City Transit Authority, all of them have been working together, you know, tireless to get this accomplished. But also I want to echo what John Stevens said to you, which is to say, these things take time, but also we have to continue to make the connections that we're making today. Economic development doesn't just happen in some parts.

They have to happen everywhere, and so today we take a moment to sell and tomorrow we get back to it and get to work and you know make the next day a better day so thank you all for being here and see you sorry Carrie I think I jumped you up in the agenda but this works well because we get a transition to the role of our federal government and our FTA region seven staff and followed by Congressman Cleveland after that and I've said it before but I'm going to say it again I want to say thank you as a as a project management team president to the team to FTA Region 7. I'm looking at Cindy Moses in the front row who've been working with us for over 10 years on the starter line on the Main Street extension on this project to leverage federal opportunity in all cases all three of our projects. We brought in a well over 250 million dollars in federal funding to bring jobs to bring growth to Kansas

City in but for that federal investment in the partnership from Region 7 right here in Kansas City. This system doesn't exist. We have a billion dollar system now on the backs of significant federal investment because we did our work and because we have great partners at Region 7. And Carrie Butler is the regional administrator for Region 7, and she's been great and I'm excited to introduce you, Carrie. Thank you very much. The invitation to join on this major milestone. It's an honor to stand here today as we mark the progress of a project that will redefine the riverfront of Kansas City and treat and transform the connections that everyone in the Kansas City region can make.

FTA was proud to provide nearly $36 million in federal funds for this extension and investment made possible with the strong support during President Trump's first term with the recently opened Main Street extension. Now we all can truly get from the river to the roofs. This project represents investment in our own communities, building infrastructure in our own backyards and riverfronts, ensuring Americans and their families have access to world-class transit right here at home. Today is about one word, connection.

The riverfront extension is more than just a streetcar line. It's a demonstration of the power of partnership and one investment can mean for our economy. By providing a new connection to the Berkeley Riverfront, residents on the riverfront can get to downtown and point south on one ride. And we all have a one-stop ride to reconnect with the river and all that is happening on the riverfront. These rails are more than just tracks. They represent a path of opportunity for workers, a reliable route for students along the full length of Main Street line, and of course, for soccer fans to enjoy a world-class purpose-built woman soccer stadium.

By connecting downtown, the riverfront, crossroads, midtown, the closet, we are ensuring that Kansas City remains a premier place to the live, work, and thrive. I want to thank the project partners who I know have worked diligently so hard on all the things that FTA asked them to do. The City of Kansas City, Missouri, the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, the Kansas City Streetcar Authority, and the Court Authority, for being great partners and for leading this project to a successful completion and early opening. I also want to extend our deepest congratulations to the community groups, neighborhood leaders, local officials who provided the ideas and inspiration and kept the momentum going for this ambitious endeavor. I'd also like to extend to thank you to the Region 17 and especially to Cindy Moses, our regional engineer,

who has been here and dedicated a lot of her time to this product, so thank you. Lastly, public transportation is one of the most visible touch points between citizens and their government. The experienced families have on streetcars and buses, sets the tone for how they see their government. And this is an extraordinary example of that touchpoint and how we provide service to our citizens. So congratulations. Thank you for your commitment to investing in our transit systems

and investing in Kansas City workers, families, in the American future. Thank you so much. Congressman Manuel Cleaver. So without further ado, Congressman, I'd like to remind people about how stupid some of us have been Lane Mining

Public Housing Project was considered to be a major, major disaster. It was viewed as at one point a major move toward housing for poor people after

Pruitt and Igo in St. Louis. Dwight Eisenhower Pouther Poutt Pruid Igo and Lane Minor in Kansas City. was the way to go. He was a great president from our vantage point, but that was a bad decision.

And so when we realized that, White Miner was torn down and then in an attempt to save money about transporting all of the debris to a landfill way over and kicked this. He was buried right out of here. Five stories housing projects. buried right here. Now the mayor didn't know that, well let me first of all say it wasn't, it

wasn't either of us. Let's get that out here right now. Well, it's not either of us. But the good news is that when Hilton came to town and said they wanted to have a riverboat, it gave us the impetus to try to start doing things. And making long for sure we were able to get something out of the way. I want to also just thank that before I sit down, my partner for years and years and years, Kit Bond, we had to have a road to can down here. And Kit was never, ever, ever embarrassed about bringing money to the state of Missouri and money to Kansas City. But let me just tell you, I grew poor, very, very, very poor, and I tell me because they can't visualize it, We had a dog named Chico, and Chico ran away and went to the dog now, turned himself in,

so that he'd get some good meals. But my dad and some of the neighbors, we didn't have much, but people took the newspaper. And so once Chico was gone, my dad is sitting in the house, and he hears a dog barking, it goes out. And there's a dog sitting in front of the door with a newspaper. And so my dad goes to the refrigerator, gets a hot dog, throws it out, a dog drops the newspaper, and the last's tail goes on. And the next morning, my dad hears a dog barking.

It goes out, and there are two dogs out there with two newspapers. And by the time we got up to about ten dogs gathering at the house. in our front yard every morning was newspapers my dad realized that he had come over with something big and I think that

whether we know or not that's what's happening in Kansas City people have come and they've seen what we're doing all of the things that's going on in Kansas we're having in the baseball terminology of a beginning

right here in Kansas City and everybody around the country wants to come in bring something to Kansas City, like those dog is brought newspapers. Kansas City is a major city that's on the move, and I think we're moving as much as any city in the nation. Everybody wants to come to Kansas City. Anybody who doesn't want to come to City,

please go so much, sit down and shut up. Next up, our honorable mayor, Quentin Lucas, everybody. Well, amen, everybody. Let's give another round of applause to Congressman Cleaver. Ladies and Tim. And welcome to another momentous day in Kansas City. It has been an exceptional time. It's been an exceptional spring.

If you have been paying attention, we have had monumental announcements at 18th and V. Monumental announcements about how we can traverse our city better in Midtown, a Grand Avenue pedestrian bridge. We have talked a little bit about a baseball stadium that won't be far from this line. And we have more to come. This is a transformative, but a continuing moment for Kansas City.

And the world and the country are paying attention. You know, Mayor Cleaver, or Congressman Cleaver, today we have another mayor with us. The former mayor of Cincinnati, Mark Mallory, stand up. You get a shout out wherever you are. And I said, Mr. Mayor, are you looking to run in Kansas City? He said, no, but hey, all good. It's open. But he said he wanted to make sure that his community, so many others, you get a chance to see Tom Garan how we're doing it right here in Kansas City.

And the way that we have done it right, give Tom a round of applause too. In fact, this makes a real noise for Tom. Because Tom knows something better than almost anyone else, which is that it takes collaboration. So you have heard shoutouts to many different groups. This does not work today without everyone working together, everyone working together, everyone persevering. Carrie Butler noted, and she's a federal employee, so I'll be good and noted the right way, which is that from administration to administration, our projects related to the streetcar have continued, have been successful, and have been a point of pride not just for Kansas City, not just for the state of Missouri,

but for the United States government. And I thank you, Carrie, for your collaboration. I thank Congressman Cleaver. I thank so many visionaries we've had along the way. And I know Michael Collins, you told me not to do a retrospect. and we're going to look at the future. I've got to start a little bit in the past. I'll be quick. My mom brought me down here to a Riverfest, probably in the 1990s. So if you came down, but you would come in at it be about 105 degrees. You know, you just be standing in the sun, kind of looking.

You may hear something. And for somebody who's from this city, as you know in Congressman, to look around today, to look at the commerce we have around you, to look at the culture we have around you. This project doesn't happen without visionaries. It doesn't happen without people who said Kansas City not only can do better at one time, but it will continue to do so each and every day.

I also want to make sure that I think the often imitated, never duplicated, always underappreciated employees of Kansas City, Missouri government. Y'all take a lot of flag. I want to give y'all a round of luck. Finally, there's this. The street car, and we're not going to put too much pressure on time and the team, we're just opening something today.

But the streetcar has been in many ways about bridging gaps, and its next phase, in my opinion, is bridging divides. With the starter line 10 years ago that we started on time, we were able to make it easier to get between downtown the crossroads, the river market.

We've been able to connect the country club Plaza, UMKC, our beautiful riverfront. Our next phase is how we bridge those divides that have broken up our community for too long. Across true staff, across the state line. We have more work to do and we look forward to doing that work ahead. So Kansas City, today is the day that we celebrate us again. We celebrate our vision,

we celebrate our hard work, but we know another thing. We can't stop, we won't stop, and we have more work to do ahead. Congratulations, Kansas City. Let's go flip the switch. Thank you all. So very much. All right. Yeah, that's some good stuff. So, So much silly question before I continue with my musings here. Should we include Tom Garand in the Three Timers Club at this point? Because it feels like he's appeared in a three-by-guid. No, because we haven't formally interviewed him yet. So that only counts for people who have been formally interviewed

and such and have their name in the episode title. So, yeah, we got to try to get him on the podcast at some point. I'm not going to push it. Anything, but, oh, and we do need to make one correction to the federal transit lady who said, oh, the start line started under Donnie's first semester. No, it did not. This month is actually a 10-year anniversary of the streetcar opening. Let's not have checked.

May 2016, the Broadway. Obama was present in the United States. So yeah, nice try trying to take credit for Obama's work. Anyway, onto the actually getting on the street card. So I've gotten the second ever streetcar to leave the riverfront stop. Like I said, two-sided stop so you could get in on either side. and all that's and that's going to be that's going to be awesome especially for women's soccer which that stop is within walking distance of the women's soccer stadium now there had been plans

to ultimately move that all the way to the casino but unfortunately because of all the development that's happening between that stop and the stadium I don't think that extension is a I don't think further expansion on that extension is going to happen so so yeah double-side stop once I get off it's the blue rectangular shelters that so we've grown accustomed to over these past ten years and on the other side it's that's a big pavilion that they built which again is really

cool all right it's really cool under there it's just open space to just hang out and in the shade and all then and they got the monitor the displays

there too soon so yeah I can hang out and stay cool I wish I had to you like today so we got on got on joining me in the initial pack is my film friend John Trasolo John I'd love to get you on the podcast at some points and yeah we took took the line all the way down the MKC

so we rode the whole line and then I'll take this real quick yeah I'm not going to response back to this text but that's from the Sierra Club which is kind of interesting given the nature of this you know it's designed to help get cars off the street as much as possible

and all that but yeah I took the street car all the way down to UMKC got out went to Crow's coffee got a coffee real quick and hot tobacco on and happened to be sitting next to the former mayor of a Cincinnati man named Mark Mallory. Very nice guy. He was talking about how

Cincinnati came up with their streetcar at about the same time and said that we had piggybacked off them. In fact, they used the same rolling stock out of a, of a CAF, the Spanish company that designs all that stuff. And he, he brought up two things that he feels that they could have done in retrospect one was not charge fare and i thought that was important to point out because uh oh yeah k c streetcar has in 10 years they have never charged a fair all the money they raise is through a special taxing district along uh the line all right so they have never had charge of fare and and he recognized That's one way we messed up with Cincinnati.

Another thing that he mentioned was Cincinnati, they had not extended or expanded their system at all since they started that. And yeah, we probably should have considered expansions. And here we are, expansion number two of the Casey Streetcar system. so two down and at least three more in some form of planning I have a feeling they're talking about more because I remember talking with Tom Garand at an open house for this very extension that just opened that he was in fact interested in doing a Johnson County extension and all that and I would love to see that so let's get the planning started In fact, they were talking about getting some form of transit out to Gardner. How about that?

Yeah, that's way further out. So that's southwestern Johnson County. You know, we're getting into the heavier rail type stuff that I feel we would need for the airport. And I told people, I told my new YouTube friends, uh, there, yeah. Yeah, they need. heavy rail for the airport so so yeah it was real cool so so our updated line and I'll go south to north and then back south again because remember we have the loop there still in the river market we got UMKC University of Missouri Kansas City just

so that we are clear on that all right my alma mater we got the plaza We had art museums. We had South Moreland, Westport, Armor, Union Hill, World War I Museum and Memorial. Asterisk, this will be one of the two stadium spots when the Royal's Ballpark finally opens in a few years. Union Station, of course, is the other one, and that's where Main Street meets the starter line. And we continue with the Starline, Crossroads, Kaufman Center, Paran Line, Metro. Metro Center Library North Loop then we do the River Market loops and now it goes City Market then River Market so rest in peace River Market North is now all river markets with two separate platforms the idea is it'll hit the new northbound platform first go up to the riverfronts so riverfront

then back and use the old River Market North platform as the southbound River Market. And then continue to rest in peace, River Market West. It's been renamed Delaware. This is a change. I was not made aware of until I saw the streetcars own social media make reference to that. I might as well check that out. and yeah it's been renamed to Delaware after Delaware streets which is actually that portion of the whole Delaware to Main Street to Brookside Boulevard corridor on which this system runs and really excited about this and the view from the riverfronts overlooking the Missouri River River

probably one of the best views in the entire city if you ask me and having spent a lot haven't spent some time in that riverfront park myself I really enjoyed the views there and I'm glad others I get to partake as well and it was very cool meeting Mayor Mallory

and all that not Mayor Gibrony that's the current guy Perraval is his name. And we're looking forward to... We got three more on deck. You've heard the East West talk. So that's the 39th Street from the main line out to KU Med. And then Linwood Boulevard all the way out to the VA hospital.

And then Van Brunt at the end. You heard about 18th and Vine. That's the newest study. goes out to 18th in Vine or technically 18th and Passaio is where I would go and then there are two plans I would suspect it would be the back and forth down 18th Street I don't think they're going to the loop

around including 19th Street at all but we'll see what they come up with and of course North Rail over the into expect extends that river market loop out to Columbus Park, out stopping Columbus Park before it crosses the Missouri River along the Harv America Bridge, which, by the way, this new extension runs under, over the Harv America Bridge, over the Missouri River, into North Kansas City,

and run the... I think the current plan is Swift Street, Taylor's version. that's never going to get old and that is what they have going on so far I would strongly recommend Tom if you're listening to this I would strongly recommend your next few

states include an airport connection of some form of course it's going to have to be heavier rail I think if there's any agency within Kansas City that can get this done It is the streetcar authority

I think The Truist Maxbus and the Prospect Max Bus Those are potential Streetcar lines In my opinion So something to look into As well

That green corridor Bridging Legends and Independence Square Let's get some fucking rail on that thing too even if it means closing down the north part of the loop and confirming that. Or maybe they could be commuter rail. I don't know, but I think that was stupid on the part of Mark.

Amer C, the Mayerich Reaches Council, to not include rail at all. Boneheaded move, especially for some of this purported be a green corridor. No, let's get some rail on that. Let's get some rail out to, yeah. Let's find a way to use that Rock Island trail from the stadiums out to at least some. And let's find a way to do that as some form of rail. Let's find a way to get rail up to Liberty as well. And the other two that need to be talked about, Johnson County.

Let's get a line. let's get the feeder line down War Parkway and the Joint Mission Parkway into Mission Transit and there get to two lines Maccalf Quivera line

would serve as Johnson County Community College and do the Brookside Waldo line and then we can go from there get out to Blue Springs get out to Grandview get at

Liberty or Parkville wherever sky's limits but resources are finite and we need a more transit friendly present because this this car jackass he ain't transit friendly at all

all right insisting that we not do green technology because there's no from the windmills causes cancer or or and insistent we continue to buy gas and stupidly stupidly starting a war with Iran that produces a lot of the stuff so so yeah we need a transit friendly presence in 28 and because yeah this is only possible

because we had transit-friendly presidents, namely Obama and Biden. All right. But credit to the streetcar authority for being so visionary and getting this stuff done. Because it, again, riding the whole line, that was fun. That was fun. And they had a lot of other stuff going on at the Riverfront today. They had a free concert going on. and they had food trucks,

tacos and all that. So, highly recommend if you're in Kansas City, right? We now have the whole streetcar from the riverfront to Young Casey. And, you know,

that's going to do it for this special episode of the podcast. I hope y'all will take advantage of our hospitality here. And we will talk to you again very, very soon. And before I sign out, this podcast is Uncalled for, is hosted, producing it by myself, Mike Chernivsky.

Our opening music is this podcast is Uncalled for a theme. It was great at suno.com, SUNO.com. And also created it at Suno.com is today's outro music, which was an ode to the Casey Streetcar. Talk soon. Rolling steady through the Friday nights. Hear the bell ring here the people say.

Kansas City's moving our way. Please support the podcast and purchase our exclusive Uncalled for Merchandise. T-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, stickers, and so much more. Go to www.com.com.com. Thank you so much for listening. We will see you next time. time.