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The Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance has a vision for Kansas City to create sustainable regional and local transit funding that can better connect people to opportunity. Learn more: www.kcrta.org
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Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance @kcrta.bsky.social · Oct 2
🚨ADVOCACY ALERT!🚨 KCRTA polling shows majority voter support for transit funding across the Kansas City region! 🧵 1 of 4:
Image from KCRTA. The text reads: "We believe that public transit funding is a REGIONAL problem. So we decided to hire the top transit pollster in the country to ask real voters in Jackson, Johnson, Clay, and Wyandotte Counties if they would vote to approve a sales tax that would fund a regional bus system. Here is what a majority of voters told us..."
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The bus service linking Overland Park, Lenexa and Kansas City International Airport is expected to run from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.
Johnson County to launch new KCI bus service for World Cup. Could it stick around?
The bus service linking Overland Park, Lenexa and Kansas City International Airport is expected to run from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Great quotation from our chair @tah.bsky.social and other transit leaders in this article from The Beacon about transit challenges ahead of the World Cup in Kansas City next year.

Bottom line: we don't fund transit enough. The region needs a better funding model:

thebeaconnews.org/stories/2025...
As World Cup demands loom, transit leaders face hard decisions to pay for extra bus service
Kansas City has been asking the state and federal government for financial help to pay for extra buses during the World Cup. The clock is ticking, and the transit agency hasn’t gotten a dime.
thebeaconnews.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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An exciting new chapter has begun in #KCMO. Today, @kcstreetcar.org officially opened the Main Street extension!

This project has been years in the making, and took the effort of countless folks, including our immediate past chair David Johnson.

We can't wait to see what's next!
The new streetcar pulls into the station near the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri. Decorative fireworks mark the launch of the KC Streetcar extension. People crowd onto the KC Streetcar as it begins its inaugural run from the new extension. KCRTA immediate past chair David Johnson (left) is interviewed by local news station KSHB 41 on board the KC Streetcar.
October 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Thank you to everyone who was able to attend the Regional Mobility Summit!

Let's get to work making regional #transit funding a reality!

www.kshb.com/news/local-n...
Kansas City transit leaders look at solutions before bus funding expires by end of 2025
With thousands of Chappell Roan fans flocking to Kansas City, Missouri, this weekend, they need a way to get around. However, a more immediate issue is finding the funding to keep the buses running.
www.kshb.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Our immediate past chair @davekcmo.bsky.social served on a panel about transportation for KC Tomorrow this morning!
David Johnson takes a selfie during the KC Tomorrow transportation panel.
October 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Our chair @tah.bsky.social is presenting at the KCATA Regional Mobility Summit this morning!

The topic -- results from our poll on transit funding. Learn more: kcrta.org/2025/10/02/k...
KCRTA Board Chair Tristin Amezcua-Hogan presents on recent poll data about public support for transit funding.
October 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance Vice Chair Michael Kelley says the poll shows that people across the metro will support public transit if their local governments invest in it, especially at a time when the state and federal governments are pulling back transit funding.
Voters across the Kansas City metro support a sales tax for better bus service, new poll finds
A new poll from the Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance found that voters in four counties across the metro would support a regional sales tax dedicated to bus service, even as soon as next year.
www.kcur.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
kcrta.bsky.social
🚨ADVOCACY ALERT!🚨 KCRTA polling shows majority voter support for transit funding across the Kansas City region! 🧵 1 of 4:
Image from KCRTA. The text reads: "We believe that public transit funding is a REGIONAL problem. So we decided to hire the top transit pollster in the country to ask real voters in Jackson, Johnson, Clay, and Wyandotte Counties if they would vote to approve a sales tax that would fund a regional bus system. Here is what a majority of voters told us..."
October 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM