DaveKCMO wrote:
also, no more park and rides.
Charlotte's worked but they did cut them off when one got closer in. simple parking option. one of the busiest Boston T stops is a major park and ride where train + bus meets. there's large parking garages right next to El stations. Minneapolis has the end of their line at what I bet is one of the largest parking garages in the country at the Mall of America, they put it below the garage on purpose I'm sure
they could work for KC where the lines enter edge suburban territory and if done as a bigger picture.
I could see one working at 32nd in NKC at the closest. it could be build as a municipal garage that NKC uses to take workers off it's streets and onto the train for local service + downtown access. they could use it in general, like with Snake Saturday. could also use the bottom level as a bus transfer point with leasable space facing 32nd, maybe a small convenience store
the same could work at NE Vivion and N. Oak with expanded bus and then train service. it's at four major routes meeting and a large garage could funnel people if there's a good solution. remember, I-29 in the northland has more cars in that area than the downtown loop, it's a major potential transit point
UMKC could replace their surface lots with more garage space and put in a more dense campus. that's what Missouri State in Springfield did, they're both landlocked colleges without taking homes