Proposed Streetcar Routes & Current Usage of Public Transit

This webmap shows streetcar lines currently proposed for Kansas City in relation to the current usage of public transit. More details are contained within the webmap.

 

 

Kansas City Proposed Streetcar Lines

The City of Kansas City, Missouri is planning to construct a streetcar line that will run from Union Station to City Market along Main Street.

The Kansas City Star reported this week that the city is also planning to study the feasibility of eight expansions to the streetcar starter route.

The eight expansion lines are represented in the map below. We digitized them in very crude form using information posted at the Next Rail Kansas City Mind Mixer site. With this in mind, this map is only a general depiction of what routes local planners seem to be eyeballing for future streetcar lines.

Twenty-Dollar Travel Map

Assume you’re leaving the parking lot garage next door to KCMO’s city hall.

Assume you have  twenty dollars worth of gas in your vehicle, and the gas cost you $3.35 per gallon.

Assume you’re driving either a 2013 Land Rover, a 2013 Cadillac ATS, or a 2013 Prius., and you’re going to obey posted speed limits.

Assume that you want to drive as far away from your current location as possible on that $20 dollars of gas, but still have enough left to get back.

Make all those assumptions, then use this map to estimate your travel plan.

Greens

A green mean map for St. Pat’s.

National High Speed Rail

Wow, what a map from First Cultural Industries out of Berkeley.

Seems a shame to think KC would not have a direct line to Denver.

US-71 to I-49, Google Wins

This probably goes in the boring but true category…

Google Maps is the first of the big three players in the commercial online map space to update US-71 between Kansas City and Joplin to I-49 on their base map. It took them about a week to post the change. However, while the update appears on their base map, it looks like it has yet to make it into the back-end system they use to generate driving directions.

It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes the change to appear within the base maps published by Bing and MapQuest.

Update Your Maps: US-71 to I-49

It’s 12-12-12 and US HWY 71, from Kansas City to Joplin, becomes Interstate 49 today. Read all about it here, see it below.

Road Density By City

A quick look at the density of streets within each city across KC Metro.

In this map the city boundaries are split where they cross county lines. This was done primarily for KCMO, allowing the calculation of its street density for north and south of the river.

The analysis includes all streets and roadways whether they are local, county, state, or federally maintained.

The tabular results for the ten densest cities (street-wise) is below:

1. Ferrelview, Platte Co.                      27.9 streets/sq. mi.
2. Oakwood Park, Clay Co.                  26.4
3. Holt, Clay Co.                                   24.7
4. Westwood Hills, Johnson Co.           23.7
5. Oaks, Clay Co.                                  22.8
6. Randolph, Clay Co.                           22.5
7. Roeland Park, Johnson Co.              21.5
8. Mission, Johnson Co.                       21.4
9. Avondale, Clay Co.                          20.6
10. Fairway, Johnson Co.                      20.4