[PRCo] Fwd: OT: City Council kills Kansas City light rail plan

[James B. Holland]

"Edward B. Havens" <edhavens at ...> wrote:

The 27-mile light rail proposal at Kansas City that was promoted by
transit activist Clay Chastain and approved by city voters in a November
2006 referendum now is officially dead. In what the Kansas City Star
describes as an unprecedented move, the City Council today voted to kill
Chastain's plan:
http://tinyurl.com/yro8ys
A citizens task force is recommending a 12-mile modern streetcar line
operating on city streets. The Fox TV station at Kansas City reports
there will be a referendum on some sort of surface rail plan at a future
date:
http://tinyurl.com/ytm2bo
Edward B. Havens
Tucson, Ariz.

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