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02:53 PM CDT
Rail advocate Clay Chastain was back in Kansas City on Wednesday to make a pitch for getting light rail on the city ballot for a ninth time.
SHALL THE FOLLOWING BE APPROVED?
Residents living in the Kansas suburbs are distinctly unhappy with their lack of alternatives to driving, according to a new poll just out this week.
The 14-mile light rail plan put to Kansas City voters last year probably wouldn't have qualified for federal funding. That's what consultants had to say Wednesday as they near completion of an alternatives analysis of the light rail plan that voters handily rejected last year.
Some of the route still is undetermined, and construction procedures aren't planned.
An olive branch to Kansas City’s East Side led to a veritable love fest for light rail on Thursday.
Some members of the task force officially designated to recommend a light-rail plan for Kansas City wonder whether the plan should involve a smaller tax and a quicker vote.
It looks likely that no light-rail issue — either to repeal Clay Chastain’s plan or to approve a new plan — will go before voters in February.
For the past year, Kansas City has been tangled in a debate over what light-rail system to pursue.
A new rail transit boom in America may soon make Kansas City the nation’s largest metropolitan area without a public rail system.
The Star's Jeffrey Spivak and Matt Campbell tour the proposed light-rail route
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A look at Portland's system  VIDEO
See a short video of modern streetcar light rail in operation in Portland, Ore. While the sleek look of this modern streetcar is similar to what Kansas City's would be, the operating speed in the video is slower than what it would be in Kansas City. |
A new rail transit boom in America may soon make Kansas City the nation’s largest metropolitan area without a public rail system.
A light-rail starter system can’t go everywhere. Here are some routes you may be wondering about and reasons why a broad base of community leaders and groups reject them.
As the city debates what to do next with light rail, the city’s most widely known light-rail champion -- Clay Chastain -- has begun to discuss ways to alter his own plan.
