Went just south of us. Driving down Holmes to work today the trees were knocked down from about 5 blocks north and south of Bannister. The alarm went off and I pulled 41 up on my phone and the first thing the Lezak replacement said was “confirmed tornado sighting in prairie village heading due East”. Freaked out and got the kid and dog into the basement and once we were there he corrected and said confirmed around 95th and State Line.
Was in an article last month. FIFA gets control of the sports complex and Sherman doesn’t want them on the road for a month straight so he wants the stadium open before 2026.
Just listened to Mayor Q on CDot’s show. Basically confirmed everything we’ve been talking about. Downtown baseball by ‘26, he pushed hard for that Eastern downtown lot over 18th and Vine (worried the ballpark would overshadow the district). Light rails to the airport and Arrowhead (streetcars from Waldo to downtown and KU Med to downtown). $50 million to upgrade Arrowhead right now but they also want to further discussion to upgrade Arrowhead and the sports complex into a site capable of Super Bowl hosting. Amazing things happening in our town.
100%. Really sounds like they promised FIFA that foreigners could fly into the new terminal and get downtown, to the entertainment centers, and to the games strictly via public transport. Like, 10 years ago we used to proudly flaunt “more highway roads per capital than any city in the world”. We’re finally turning into a modern city.
this was basically my drive on 435 from nall to wornall. sometimes it took 45 minutes to go like 3 miles
Yeah except I5 is a 1000x worse because it is the only option, especially where lived where the Sound and JBLM funneled everyone onto I5.
Sound on one side, mountains the other. All it takes is one tool to get into a fender bender to cost thousands hours of their lives….
Public transport will be busses. They're not getting rail to the airport done that quick. Unless they have the plans/studies already finished and start construction asap which seems very unlikely.
would love all this but the only thing here even in the initial planning stage is the streetcar from KU med (I’d love this because I could carpool with the wife and take rail downtown to work). I think all of this can and should happen but I doubt by 2026. that said the federal infrastructure money coming helps
Knew east/west expansion was the only current thing with a study. Pretty sure any light rail that ever gets done would be on existing track or footprint.
I'm curious to see what sort of timelines are initially proposed and how the federal money could impact that, because like you said as it currently stands I have no idea how all of the proposed changes are even remotely possible by 2026. I mean, just look at the current street car construction (which I'm also happy is being done, but it moving pretty slowly).