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The first electric streetcar operated in Kansas City on September 6, 1889. [7] By 1908, all but one of Kansas City's streetcar routes had been converted to electricity. [1] When the Kansas City Public Service Company (KCPS) was created in 1925, it inherited over 700 streetcars that had been owned and operated by private companies. [5]
The KC Streetcar is a one-route streetcar system in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. [7] Construction began in May 2014, [8] and service began on May 6, 2016. The KC Streetcar is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area's integrated public transit brand RideKC, and is operated by the Kansas City Streetcar Authority.
The RideKC brand was adopted in August 2014 by the Kansas City Streetcar Authority, operators of the KC Streetcar line then under construction in Kansas City, Missouri. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority adopted RideKC in November, [ 3 ] followed by Johnson County Transit , IndeBus and Unified Government Transit .
The company began operating January 16, 1900 as the Kansas City-Leavenworth Railway. [1] Starting from Leavenworth (then the 4th largest city in Kansas), it ran southeast through Lansing. [2] It also passed through the Wolcott community, renamed from Connor or Connor City in honor of H.W. (Herbert) Wolcott, an official of the railway.
MetroLink (reporting mark BSDA) is a light rail system [7] [8] that serves the Greater St. Louis area. Operated by Metro Transit in a shared fare system with MetroBus , [ 9 ] the two-line, 38-station system runs from St. Louis Lambert International Airport and Shrewsbury in Missouri to Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
It was the first controlled intersection in Kansas City, marking the coming reliance on the automobile and has become a local icon due to its unique structure and placement. [ 7 ] Walt Bodine (1940 – 2012), a fixture of talk radio on Kansas City's NPR member station KCUR , grew up at the corner of Linwood Boulevard and Troost Avenue . [ 17 ]
Interstate 670 (I-670) is a 2.81-mile-long (4.52 km) connector highway between I-70 in Kansas City, Kansas, and I-70 in Kansas City, Missouri.The highway provides a more direct route through Downtown Kansas City than the older mainline I-70 and avoids the sharp turn (and reduced speed limit) of the latter at the west end of the Intercity Viaduct.
Ewing Yard with some SD-400 and SD-460 cars. Metro Transit, the public transit operator in the Greater St. Louis area, operates two rail yards for the MetroLink light rail system, four bus depots for MetroBus and Metro Call-A-Ride services, and one streetcar barn for the Loop Trolley.