Kansas City will celebrate the first streetcar stop with a party
Kansas City will celebrate the installation of the first streetcar stop, at 16th and Main streets, with a party from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday.
The public is invited to the outdoor party. Mayor Sly James and other streetcar advocates will mark the occasion with food and drinks from nearby restaurants Anton’s Taproom and Nara. The Kansas City band Frankowski will provide live music.
The stop on the southwest corner of 16th and Main will be one of 16 stops along the two-mile downtown streetcar route. Each stop costs about $143,000, for a total cost of about $2.3 million. Each station platform includes level boarding for streetcars and buses to assist people with disabilities.
Thirteen of the stops, including the one at 16th and Main, will have a shelter that includes lighted displays, seat walls, canopies and windscreens to guard against inclement weather.
The stops were designed by HDR Engineering and fabricated by Dimensional Innovations, a Lenexa firm.
Construction for the second stop, on the east side of Main Street just north of 16th, has also started.
To reach Lynn Horsley, call 816-226-2058 or send email to lhorsley@kcstar.com.
This story was originally published April 21, 2015 at 4:14 PM with the headline "Kansas City will celebrate the first streetcar stop with a party."