Everyone is tired of getting DUI's.

Awesome.

Light rail... :drool:

People are excited about a light rail from the airport to Swope park and the exciting gondola? While it might be nice for KC to have some sort of light rail this doesn't exactly scream great plan.

You have to start somewhere, i mean when the wheel was invented you didn't hear the critics say "well gee that's great but can you make a vehicle that would use 4 of those and achieve 0-60 in 5 seconds or less or is this just worthless?"

Was that 75 million going to be used for a new Wizards stadium as well?

No, according to everything I read. That was separate.

$75M for soccer fields?

ROFL

It would have been owned and maintained by Johnson County Parks and Recreation.

No... I do believe that it would evntually expand, genius. But, last I hear was the city is going to challenge it.

So who knows. :(

My thought is that if you start out with something that is haphazard then try to expand it... Well, you end up with useless crap.

It is a bit disappointing that the Soccer fields didn't pass, only because I think KC, being smack dab in the middle of the country and a pretty decent sports town, has opportunities to be sort of a central place to hold events like that. Soon we should get our Schlitterbahn, Worlds of Fun, Downtown Arena, improved Truman Complex, Raceway, and if the hiring of the Omaha Zoo manager can get our Zoo on par with Omaha's... Well, I just think there are some opportunities and I will leave it at that.

morphius
(what is the latest on the lego land park in Olathe?)

Too bad that source has inaccurate info in it. It says that 16 of the fileds were to be Astroturf. which is untrue. They were going to be sprint turf. Big difference between the two.

Even the moron from the Parks & Rec Dept. last night admitted that $75M was a hefty price tag, but that in order to have "the ammenities we thought were needed in Johnson County" it was going to cost quite a bit.

Like what, a f**king govt. owned Starbucks between every field? Give me a break.

It would have been a private business in the hypothetical I was spinning.

A lot of the cost was a state of the art community center. Also factor int he cost of putting in 16 sprint turf fields. The fields would cost a lot more up front than grass but less in maintenance over time.