KC Streetcar Ridership, Satisfaction on the Rise
After more than three years of service, passengers are still riding the Kansas City Streetcar in record numbers.
After more than three years of service, passengers are still riding the Kansas City Streetcar in record numbers.
Kansas City’s sixth and final streetcar, no. 806, is schedule to arrive on the property Aug. 26. Manufactured by CAF USA, Inc., 806 is the second of two new streetcars added to the KC Streetcar Authority system, which launched operations with four vehicles (801-804) in May 2016. No. 805 joined the fleet in May 2019.
The Kansas City Streetcar Authority (KCSA), in coordination with Port KC and the KCATA, selected the team led by Burns and McDonnell to conduct a Streetcar Riverfront Extension and Multi-Modal Feasibility Study to assess multi- modal transportation needs and a potential northern riverfront extension of the Kansas City Streetcar.
The biggest problems facing the startup of Kansas City’s modern streetcar line are illegally parked automobiles and errant drivers, Lynn Horsley reports in the March 6, 2016 edition of The Kansas City Star. This is a problem that several streetcar systems have been dealing with, she notes. We repost the article here: