Streetcar extension to UMKC opens, and the crowd arrives early
Three and a half new miles, eight new stops, and a first-day crowd that started forming before sunrise.
Topic
infrastructure
5 stories tagged “infrastructure” in the Kansas City News archive.
One year into the new KCI terminal: shorter walks, longer queues
The good news is that Kansas City finally has an airport that works. The bad news is concentrated in one 40-minute window each morning.
Floodwall repairs begin on the north bank after a decade of deferral
The levee held in 2019. It held with less margin than anyone at the time knew.
The Northland is absorbing warehouse space faster than it can build it
Vacancy at 3.1 percent is not a healthy market. It is a market that is out of room.
A metro food bank doubles its cold storage and cuts a distribution step
The old constraint was not supply. It was that fresh food spoils faster than a truck can move it.