Need Money? Do a Study in Shawnee

.......[c]2006 by
Richard L Zorek....10.11.06.........

The Shawnee City Council is going to spend $35 to $50,000 to study how quiet train horns might be in the city. That's how much their "study" of the issue is going to cost. And they call it a "high priority" for the 2008 budget. Let me get this straight.....there's a train track, you build house around it knowing that trains use it.....they make noise (honking their horns as a warning they are coming)...something they have always done...and now the city is going to "study" it an budget $50,000? Can I be on that study committee??? Councilman Neal Sawyer had the audacity to ask "..where are we going to get the money?" Who cares? Shawnee City Council isn't spending their money, anyway, it is the people of Shawnee's money. As Council member Dawn Kuhn said," unless we educate ourselves on what we can and can't do, I dont think we're giving ourselves a fair shake." Nor, a fair share of that $35 to $50, 000.

The $50 Million Dollar Exit

.......[c]2006 by
Richard L Zorek....10.09.06.........

I just read that the 87th street exit is open now off I-35. This has been "under contruction" for almost two years. In fact, it has been so long since it has been open, I find it hard to believe and will have to drive up and look at it myself before I can believe it. All those months of construction cones and backed up traffic.......$50 million dollars for that intersection? Everyone in Kansas City better go and enjoy a few drives through the exit that for that price.