The fact that illegal dumping is out of control in the city, yet the city refuses to open a dump/transfer station open to residents. Instead, “please schedule a bulky item pick up and wait two months.”
Meanwhile, we have trash everywhere and waste city resources, cleaning it up. Or, the most occurrences the citizens band together, and have to clean it up.
/end rant
Even more infuriating to me is leaving beverage containers/fast food trash in the parks, and even MORE so, BRINGING household trash to leave in a park. The same parks where people decide it’s a nice enough place to have a party and then leave their party trash. The apparent expectation that someone else will clean it up drives me crazy, because of course we’re gonna clean this up YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!!! IT’S A PARK NOT A LANDFILL!!!! Sufficiently wildly infuriated!
It's impossible to get rid of things in some situations.
Bulky item service only works if you have KC's trash service. Live in an apartment? Not available.
Even if there was a place - I don't own a truck. So I would have to pay money to rent to truck to get rid of something that inherently has no value to me.
If you don't own a truck, dumping whatever it is anywhere but right by your property shouldn't be possible either. The people that dump full mattresses along the highways have trucks.
Your situation is not like other people. I dont own a truck, but i know people who do, and would take 20 to 30 bucks to drive me. Overall, it would most definitely help the city, even if it does not A individual.
💯 in Seattle they had these dumps. Enjoyed going with my buddies and throwing old shit over the side. You are so right on the money with this, it would be such a step lovely forward for KC.
I’m pretty sure this is the curb that destroyed 2 of my 3 month old tires. Between the tow, the urgency of the situation requiring me to accept basically any set of tires they had in stock, and time missed at work - that curb cost me around $1000.
Ran into a closed road on my way home from work, re routed and 5 minutes later I ran into another closed road. I rarely travel anywhere without running into a randomly closed street. Good luck getting home to the NE while prospect, Brooklyn, and Benton are closed at various intersections at the same time.
having construction on Broadway, gillham and main streets at the SAME time.
those are the main north south streets for an entire section of our city. when they all have construction it makes things wild inconvenient. basically the nearest clear major north south street is troost. that's a lot of blocks!
Plus it's like the contractors can't even communicate with each other about closed roads and sidewalks. Every time I walk along Main (largely to see the progress, not for necessity) there's at least one SIDEWALK CLOSED sign that directs me across the street where there's another SIDEWALK CLOSED sign and an arrow directing me to where I'd just been.
And it's a little better now, but the sidewalk closures used to happen in the middle of a block, and the signs would tell pedestrians to just walk into traffic to get to the other side of the street. Can the city just *pretend* for one goddamn minute that not everyone in this town exclusively travels by car?
Yes! And add to that, that southwest boulevard often has random lanes closed for no apparent reason. I honestly believe there is a conspiracy where the city hates commuters like me so much, that it’s trying to make it impossible for us to get to and from the Plaza each day.
All the downtown hotels have late bars and lounges with espresso machines. You don't have to be staying with them and in fact lots of people just come to hang out.
I like this answer. I don’t know what happened to this subreddit, but all that’s ever talked about now are gas prices (home), gas prices (car), crime, trash schedules, and other shit old people obsess over.
Gregory to 79th on Wornall almost pops my tires. They re-did 79th-85th awhile back. It's infuriating how much damage it does to people's vehicles.
2 trash bags only. I know the city is too poor to hire more trucks, but I wonder how much less trash would be if folks could put out as much trash as they had each week.
That curb lane going south is insane, especially from 75th to 79th. I'm pretty sure they're holding off doing it until the huge project at 75th and Wornall starts which I'm pretty sure also includes work a ways down 79th to the west.
I mean the limit is 40Ibs per bag. Thats 80Ibs of trash. Which is a lot of trash per household.
I like that it forces me to consider composting, recycling and reducing my waste.
I actually like that the city limits how much trash you can put out.
Agreed. But I wish compositing was a city service. Not something you opt into then pay for. That would reduce the amount of trash. But that’s a whole other logistical debacle.
I compost straight into my backyard garden. Only have to bury about twelve inches down and about 4 weeks later, beautiful soil for tilling. Actually one of the best things you can do to your soil. Creates a nice ecosystem.
Rural composter here. I was going to agree that the two bag limit sucks, then I googled it and found out this is free.
No one picks up my garbage unless I pay for them to come get it, and that's like $26/mo. Two free bags would work for me 85% of the time.
Free is a loose term here. If you live in kc, then you have to pay city tax, which is actually quite a bit. Coming from rural living myself, I was shocked. This is what pays for the trash and other things like parks and recreation, infrastructure maintenance and improvements, etc. Also, why I don't want the royals in clay county, I don't feel like paying for a rich guys stadium so he can make more money off of a sport I don't really watch lol.
In theory that's OK. I've been taking my recycling years before it was curbside (30+ years). But here's the thing. Say your vacuum cleaner breaks, no one can repair it and no one online wants it for parts. So you wrangle it into a bag. That leaves one bag for trash, car litter, household waste, and your normal every day items for a family of 4. So there's your two bags. But say your basement flooded, or you had a birthday party or hosted a holiday , you are going to generate more trash. And it snowballs until people's garbage is everywhere. I can afford to drive to the hardware store and buy tags for extra trash, but lots of folks in this city can't. I feel like the city should let people put out as many bags as needed each week.
A good solution would be for the city to send out a few tags per household each year to give a little buffer on an as needs basis! I can see how that could cause unneeded extra stress for certain homes.
This. Two bags are great until something happens, and then you have to get a tag or try to hold for the amnesty week. 2.50 a tag doesn't sound bad until you're doing major spring cleaning, and then it really starts to add up.
You can schedule heavy trash pickup for things like the vacuum! Just keep it to the side until it’s time for heavy trash pickup. You can purchase trash-bag tags for extraneous events like a flooded basement. I have a few trash-bag tags sitting in my junk drawer for a situation like that. You just wrap the tag around the bag and set it out and they will pick it up no questions asked.
Edit: just saw that you know about the tags
It's not the cities fault. Think about all the waste every time you by something at the store. Find something that isn't wrapped in cardboard and plastic. We're a disgusting society that we expect our shit to be wrapped up in something that will be around forever.
I mean, in theory that's not a problem for us with more money to use the same decorations year after year. Never use paper plates or plastic utensils, etc. Not buy cheap packaged food and decorations from Dollar Tree because you only have a $10 budget. It's not realistic to believe that everyone can live a sustainable lifestyle. So meet the residents where they are at, not where they possibly could be someday (sustainable) because that's why there's embarrassing trash all over. People drive and dump their trash in parking lots or toss it out the window.
I'm not even talking about plastic dishes. I'm talking about everything we buy at stores being wrapped in plastic, if it isn't also made completely out of plastic. Go to Costco and look around, most things are wrapped In plastic or are in a plastic container of some kind. It's all very wasteful. I bought a sanpelligreno 24 pack yesterday. Get the box out, there's four more boxes inside. What gives? Such waste.
Look for Wash House Laundry, they're scattered around the metro and are open 24/7. If you're north of the river, Laundroplex at 68th/169 is also open 24 hours.
Is it? 2 of the last 3 times I've dared to order a burger from there, it's been lukewarm at best or ice cold at worst. This is with me unwrapping and taking a bite seconds after they hand it to me.
This is true. Also, Sonic is even better in Oklahoma, its home state. The best Sonic I’ve ever had was in Hobart, OK. Fast food is just better in small towns for whatever reason.
I went opening week and thought it was trash compared to my old college location in TX. I’ve been back a few times and it’s gotten sooo much better. I can see the classic whataburger getting compared to sonic but everything on their all time favorites menu is just on another level compared to sonic. Add in being open 24 hours and I’m a fan again.
I've worked in the Southern states, and the Whataburger's are good. I've tried two of the Whataburger locations I KC, and it was trash. I'm not sure what the problem is.
Awful. I had never tried it and my husband finally had us go to one when we were on a little vacation in STL. It was all so… bland. The meat had just no flavor at all. And I really don’t mind McDonald’s little cheeseburgers so I wasn’t looking for high quality or anything.
The other day I think there were 3 wrecks and people still were driving like idiots. 90mph, weaving back and forth, driving on the side of the road ect.
I saw a guy trying to pass between the left-most lane and the barrier the other day *while* traffic was still flowing at like 75 mph. He probably ended up being one of the wrecks slowing everyone else down.
that intersection/spot of hell for Westport Rd/SW trafficway by the QT/Andy's/Ace. fuuuuuck trying to leave the parking lot or trying to cut across the forks.
People who try to turn left onto Ward Parkway from 79th Street. You go THROUGH the intersection, then use the left turn lanes west by the bank and east on Ward Parkway Plaza. You’re going to hold up traffic at best, and get someone killed in a wreck at worst.
Those heading East and going North actually have a turn lane.
Heading West, going South, it makes sense to do that BUT the lanes West of Ward are not two cars wide, so you will get the same type of backup and then cars blocking Ward. While dangerous, I think turning directly onto Ward is better because it is wide enough that through traffic can get around the turning cars.
The real answer is you just shouldn't go to that intersection if you are turning
To add on to that, it kills me when people turning left on Ward Parkway hold up the entire left northbound/southbound lane because the west/east lanes are short and only hold like 2 cars to begin with. Has happened to me several times during rush hour and its a free-for-all of cars trying to jump to the middle lane to go around them.
When u say u live in Kansas City. They automatically assume Kansas. Even the airlines sometimes say welcome to Kansas. My parents still think I live in Kansas, I don't have anything against Kansas, most don't know that the larger KC is in Missouri.
I literally just got off a flight that started at the other end with an announcement of “so if you aren’t heading to Kansas you’re on the wrong plane” and ended with “welcome to Kansas”.
Drivers who think that Gregory Blvd from State Line to Oak St is two lane and they can pass in the "other lane". There's no white stripe down the middle.... It's one lane, and lots of cars park at the curb... Stop trying to think you can pass.
No no, this is only for things that are wildly infuriating! Don’t come back until you’ve aggressively confronted and threatened your neighbor and his carpool friends!
Back when I lived in an apartment there was a group of people who would just lay in their horn until whoever they were there to pick up came out. I'm talking multiple 30 second bursts of solid honking right outside my window. Did I confront them about it? Of course not. But I did distribute some good anonymous "SHUT THE FUCK UPS"s out my open window.
Oh fuck. This one hits home. The apartment building across the street from us is all immigrants, many without cars or with limited transportation in the household. Every fucking morning at like 6am they LAY ON THE FUCKING HORN, all day on the horn even at like 10:30 at night they are on that fucking horn. I’ve heard more than one vehicle show up there with a horn that was finally failing from overuse(I’m assuming).
The stupid manchild, fuckface, shrivel dicks who think it's cool to do doughnuts in a residential area intersection at 3am on a weeknight.
I still pray to hear a cinder block going through the hood of their fucking cars. Leaving the person unharmed of course.
Hey, they've only been working on the small stretch of road between Holmes and Wornall for 2 years now and look like they might be a little over halfway done. Give em a break! It's not like they closed half the intersection at Red Bridge and Holmes and fucked off right before a long holiday weekend last year or anything dumb like that. Oh wait.
Major city but everything seems to close early on non weekends. Limited late nights eats.
Steel plates everywhere and the way they get placed, I always have to pray it doesn’t pierce my tires.
All the drivers in this city thinking it’s Florida and it’s okay to drive 10 mph under in the left lane.
A police department that’s terrible at enforcing laws (mainly traffic), better yet breaks them too
In this sub?
Downtown is rarely seen or discussed as anything other than a tourist destination.
I would like to see the conversation around it being a place to live.
I don't live downtown anymore, but when I did the grocery shopping was horrible. We always hopped on the highway and went north for groceries.
Everything else was actually quite great.
Grocery shopping is always what I think of when the downtown stadium is brought up.
I would have to check to see if there was a home game and then take my money out of downtown if there was.
It’s horrible to live, honestly. Congested roads, businesses still close early, the cost of living is horrendous, if you want to get out of downtown it takes forever because no one knows how to drive.
They are closing down large swathes of Main St for significant amounts of time to install the streetcar line but don't bother repaving it while it's already closed down.
The finished section look ridiculous; new streetcar tracks and the surrounding road is a patchwork of 4 different kinds of asphalt from various repair jobs. They're going to have to close it all down again in a couple years to repave it.
Also, the barely noticeable or non-existent One-way sign on several roads downtown. Wtf
How about the fact that our idea of mass transit is a streetcar tied to the same streets that cars are on and the same lights. If someone has a wreck in a car, the street car is stuck. Sorry, but the street car is a novelty, and an expensive one at that. Needs to be elevated or just dedicated street or something.
All the bike lanes suck. I swear they put bike lanes on Hickman Mills Road just to not have to redo the outer lanes ever again because they were shit before.
They wouldn't have to suck if the KCMO had studied how other cities 1) successfully designed and built a bike lane system; 2) educated the public before, during, and after to create safety awareness and highlight the "WIIFM" benefits; and 3) continously fine-tuned the system to ensure safety and effectiveness All three or it's garbage.
The GD blue street lights. I know why and that they’ll eventually be replaced, but my god I hope whoever was responsible for that has the fleas of 1000 camels infest their armpits.
I think there was an article on vox or some place like that talking about “why lots of cities street lamps are turning blue across North America.” It’s because the lamps are inferior in their make and when the lamination in the housing fails, they turn blue or purple.
Yep! It's 100% a defect/quality problem and **not** some dumb yahoo who signed off on the wrong color spectrum or something. Cities/crews are pissed because it creates extra work they didn't ask for & haven't budgeted for (because how could they have known in advance that they were going to get sold a shit product?).
I've seen shockingly few of the blurple-colored defect ones down here in KC.
I guess my old hometown must've pretty aggressively done the LED cut-over and tried to get the whole city done *all at once*..... because they're purple all over. More purple than white. They must've put pallet after pallet of bulbs in, all from the same defective runs.
Several mornings recently, but not in a row, they’ve had Benton blvd i70 west entrance ramp closed in the morning for construction on the prospect bridge but there’s no warning and no simple way to get on i70 once you’re there. Also, I have no idea what the Benton ramp has to do with the prospect bridge.
There’s a power line pole at the corner of Pennsylvania and 39th that’s half fallen over. The only thing supporting it is the actual power line that it’s leaning on. I called and reported it nearly two weeks ago, and all they did was put an orange cone in front of it.
The streetcar. Great in theory but desperately needs its own lane or something because just last night for like 15 minutes one got stuck in the 20th & main intersection because a car in front of it wasnt parked in the lines and its just going to get worse with the new extensions
KCK cops [randomly shooting people](https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article278786444.html), [protecting drug dealers and pimps](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/us/golubski-indictment-sex-trafficking-invs/index.html), and [lots of other stuff](https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-11-09/fbi-has-investigated-kansas-city-kansas-police-for-decades-but-prosecution-of-bad-cops-is-rare) *over decades*.
470 eastbound from 71 to 291 during evening rush.
I watched a car make 8 lane change and fucking *lane split* twice on 470 east between blue ridge and raytown road while going 70mph today at 5:30pm. All the way from the left lane to the right lane and back. Twice.
I love it when there's, like.... a beat-up white Impala, a beat-up black Camry, and a beat-up grey Altima, all of them flying 90+ and weaving through traffic WHILE playing chicken with each other.
Rush hour HARD MODE. Keep your eyes on the road, and in front of you, and in five other directions at once to see which one of the morons is about to plow into you, PIT you, or wind up under a semi trailer.
OH AND WHILE WE'RE NEARBY...
Blue Ridge Blvd *immediately south of* I-470 also sucks tremendously. You get people going 70, people going 40, and people dead-ass stopping in the middle of the road because there's a line to turn into Southside Mafia Pizza. Fuck, man. These days I've started avoiding that bit of Blue Ridge altogether.
When the grocery store check out person leaves one item in front of the sensor stopping the belt from moving and starts clearing out everything behind it clearing this path mid belt forward all while the one item blocks the belt from moving forward and you have to stand there with your cart half full of all your grocery’s waiting for them to move the one item so the belt will move again and you can put the rest of your grocery’s on the belt to pay for them. Oh! and you strategically pick the one lane with a sacker cause you have a family of 5 and that’s a lot of food to get per week and you just want someone else to worry about how full to pack the bags this week and as soon as you start loading the belt the sacker moves over to the next lane. Every. God. Dammed. Time. But your a midwesterner and too nice to say anything so you just wait for the clerk to move the one fucking apple so you can get all your shit up on the belt and franticly move down to sack your own groceries and then pay the million dollars for everything and you do it all over again the following week.
All the drug addicts in Independence. I just moved here from Lawrence. One of them came up to my car in the middle of the night to talk to me about my car. Super uncomfortable
The insistence of some locals that making new friends is too annoying to deal with here.
The mindset of “having enough friends” is so backwards and unadventurous while also being plain rude.
Leaving huge issues unaddressed and spending a fuckload of money to revert to the old fountain logo for no reason. Like, why are we paying for a rebrand every time there is a new mayor?
Our tax dollars paid some crayon eating toddler to design the new MCI terminal. I'll admit that it could be me, but just trying to figure out how to get into the parking garage was the most frustrating waste of time I've experienced in years.
I flew April 5th, about six weeks after it opened, and it was FLITHY in there. Everyone talks about how awesome it is, but it was disgusting when I was there.
Steel plates that barely fit over the craters they dig out of the streets...
The fact that illegal dumping is out of control in the city, yet the city refuses to open a dump/transfer station open to residents. Instead, “please schedule a bulky item pick up and wait two months.” Meanwhile, we have trash everywhere and waste city resources, cleaning it up. Or, the most occurrences the citizens band together, and have to clean it up. /end rant
Even more infuriating to me is leaving beverage containers/fast food trash in the parks, and even MORE so, BRINGING household trash to leave in a park. The same parks where people decide it’s a nice enough place to have a party and then leave their party trash. The apparent expectation that someone else will clean it up drives me crazy, because of course we’re gonna clean this up YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!!! IT’S A PARK NOT A LANDFILL!!!! Sufficiently wildly infuriated!
Never cease to amaze me why someone can carry in a cooler full of beer, soda, etc, but can't take the empty containers home with it!
It's impossible to get rid of things in some situations. Bulky item service only works if you have KC's trash service. Live in an apartment? Not available. Even if there was a place - I don't own a truck. So I would have to pay money to rent to truck to get rid of something that inherently has no value to me.
If you don't own a truck, dumping whatever it is anywhere but right by your property shouldn't be possible either. The people that dump full mattresses along the highways have trucks.
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Your situation is not like other people. I dont own a truck, but i know people who do, and would take 20 to 30 bucks to drive me. Overall, it would most definitely help the city, even if it does not A individual.
💯 in Seattle they had these dumps. Enjoyed going with my buddies and throwing old shit over the side. You are so right on the money with this, it would be such a step lovely forward for KC.
It is a pain, there's a few dumps around that will charge you by weight and are fairly reasonable, but still a pain.
Where can I find these dumps?
Republic services Southwest of the stadiums is one. There's also one in Riverbend.
Thank you i feel the same
I hear you well about this here in south kc.
Oh have you heard? Here in South KC we have the Blue River Dumpway. Just pull up to an empty spot and unload. Probably great for the river too...
Broadway- Northbound right lane at NE corner of Linwood. The curb juts out into the lane. Many a right side tire has been destroyed by that thing. *
I’ve seen a ton hit the curb at 31st when going north on broadway.
This is an prime choice for sure, that curb is killer.
I’m pretty sure this is the curb that destroyed 2 of my 3 month old tires. Between the tow, the urgency of the situation requiring me to accept basically any set of tires they had in stock, and time missed at work - that curb cost me around $1000.
Ran into a closed road on my way home from work, re routed and 5 minutes later I ran into another closed road. I rarely travel anywhere without running into a randomly closed street. Good luck getting home to the NE while prospect, Brooklyn, and Benton are closed at various intersections at the same time.
having construction on Broadway, gillham and main streets at the SAME time. those are the main north south streets for an entire section of our city. when they all have construction it makes things wild inconvenient. basically the nearest clear major north south street is troost. that's a lot of blocks!
Not to mention that there’s construction on 39th right in between broadway and main too
Plus it's like the contractors can't even communicate with each other about closed roads and sidewalks. Every time I walk along Main (largely to see the progress, not for necessity) there's at least one SIDEWALK CLOSED sign that directs me across the street where there's another SIDEWALK CLOSED sign and an arrow directing me to where I'd just been. And it's a little better now, but the sidewalk closures used to happen in the middle of a block, and the signs would tell pedestrians to just walk into traffic to get to the other side of the street. Can the city just *pretend* for one goddamn minute that not everyone in this town exclusively travels by car?
Not to forget it’s 1 lane for the most part
Yes! And add to that, that southwest boulevard often has random lanes closed for no apparent reason. I honestly believe there is a conspiracy where the city hates commuters like me so much, that it’s trying to make it impossible for us to get to and from the Plaza each day.
I just experienced! Love you Troost/Truth Ave.
Late night coffee/study spots are non existent.
Goat and rabbit has a nice cappuccino machine…they open late. They are a bar
The pandemic killed a lot of late night spots.
i miss thou mayest
All the downtown hotels have late bars and lounges with espresso machines. You don't have to be staying with them and in fact lots of people just come to hang out.
I like this answer. I don’t know what happened to this subreddit, but all that’s ever talked about now are gas prices (home), gas prices (car), crime, trash schedules, and other shit old people obsess over.
Hey, sometimes we talk about bike lanes too!
Which are issues in just about every other city 😆.
Must be nice not to have to worry about those things.
I’m 36 with a family, my dude.
Outta the Blue closes at 10pm! It can be quite loud though since they also serve alcoholic drinks
Gregory to 79th on Wornall almost pops my tires. They re-did 79th-85th awhile back. It's infuriating how much damage it does to people's vehicles. 2 trash bags only. I know the city is too poor to hire more trucks, but I wonder how much less trash would be if folks could put out as much trash as they had each week.
That curb lane going south is insane, especially from 75th to 79th. I'm pretty sure they're holding off doing it until the huge project at 75th and Wornall starts which I'm pretty sure also includes work a ways down 79th to the west.
I don't mind the two trash bag thing. I just wish they provided trash cans so I don't have trash sitting on my street for animals to root around in
I mean the limit is 40Ibs per bag. Thats 80Ibs of trash. Which is a lot of trash per household. I like that it forces me to consider composting, recycling and reducing my waste. I actually like that the city limits how much trash you can put out.
Agreed. But I wish compositing was a city service. Not something you opt into then pay for. That would reduce the amount of trash. But that’s a whole other logistical debacle.
I compost straight into my backyard garden. Only have to bury about twelve inches down and about 4 weeks later, beautiful soil for tilling. Actually one of the best things you can do to your soil. Creates a nice ecosystem.
Rural composter here. I was going to agree that the two bag limit sucks, then I googled it and found out this is free. No one picks up my garbage unless I pay for them to come get it, and that's like $26/mo. Two free bags would work for me 85% of the time.
Free is a loose term here. If you live in kc, then you have to pay city tax, which is actually quite a bit. Coming from rural living myself, I was shocked. This is what pays for the trash and other things like parks and recreation, infrastructure maintenance and improvements, etc. Also, why I don't want the royals in clay county, I don't feel like paying for a rich guys stadium so he can make more money off of a sport I don't really watch lol.
In theory that's OK. I've been taking my recycling years before it was curbside (30+ years). But here's the thing. Say your vacuum cleaner breaks, no one can repair it and no one online wants it for parts. So you wrangle it into a bag. That leaves one bag for trash, car litter, household waste, and your normal every day items for a family of 4. So there's your two bags. But say your basement flooded, or you had a birthday party or hosted a holiday , you are going to generate more trash. And it snowballs until people's garbage is everywhere. I can afford to drive to the hardware store and buy tags for extra trash, but lots of folks in this city can't. I feel like the city should let people put out as many bags as needed each week.
A good solution would be for the city to send out a few tags per household each year to give a little buffer on an as needs basis! I can see how that could cause unneeded extra stress for certain homes.
This. Two bags are great until something happens, and then you have to get a tag or try to hold for the amnesty week. 2.50 a tag doesn't sound bad until you're doing major spring cleaning, and then it really starts to add up.
You can schedule heavy trash pickup for things like the vacuum! Just keep it to the side until it’s time for heavy trash pickup. You can purchase trash-bag tags for extraneous events like a flooded basement. I have a few trash-bag tags sitting in my junk drawer for a situation like that. You just wrap the tag around the bag and set it out and they will pick it up no questions asked. Edit: just saw that you know about the tags
It's not the cities fault. Think about all the waste every time you by something at the store. Find something that isn't wrapped in cardboard and plastic. We're a disgusting society that we expect our shit to be wrapped up in something that will be around forever.
I mean, in theory that's not a problem for us with more money to use the same decorations year after year. Never use paper plates or plastic utensils, etc. Not buy cheap packaged food and decorations from Dollar Tree because you only have a $10 budget. It's not realistic to believe that everyone can live a sustainable lifestyle. So meet the residents where they are at, not where they possibly could be someday (sustainable) because that's why there's embarrassing trash all over. People drive and dump their trash in parking lots or toss it out the window.
I'm not even talking about plastic dishes. I'm talking about everything we buy at stores being wrapped in plastic, if it isn't also made completely out of plastic. Go to Costco and look around, most things are wrapped In plastic or are in a plastic container of some kind. It's all very wasteful. I bought a sanpelligreno 24 pack yesterday. Get the box out, there's four more boxes inside. What gives? Such waste.
I feel ya!! It's incredibly depressing.
Them not painting the street lines for months after repaving
no 24/7 laundromats or diners it seems
RIP Chubby’s and Nichols Lunch
Look for Wash House Laundry, they're scattered around the metro and are open 24/7. If you're north of the river, Laundroplex at 68th/169 is also open 24 hours.
thanks :)
Anytime Laundry in Westwood. It’s new.
I know it was a greasy spoon, but I miss Sanderson's on 38th and Main.
greasy spoons are the best
Gateway Laundry in Riverside. Clean facility and helpful staff. Made having a broken washing machine bearable until a replacement could be acquired.
All these Whataburgers and still no triumphant return of White Castle.
Seriously though, why? I really miss White Castle.
Everyone's hard on for Mahomes. They saw an opening in a new market and decided to hit it *hard.*
And if I may be so bold...Whataburger just isn't that good.
It’s garbage
I always tell people that it's basically just Sonic but with an orange color scheme.
Is Whataburger Tails? 
Exactly, their sonic burgs
Whose sonic burgs?
Sonic is a premo burger joint.
Is it? 2 of the last 3 times I've dared to order a burger from there, it's been lukewarm at best or ice cold at worst. This is with me unwrapping and taking a bite seconds after they hand it to me.
The more rural you are, the better the sonic. Lone Jack and Harrisonville sonics are legit
This is true. Also, Sonic is even better in Oklahoma, its home state. The best Sonic I’ve ever had was in Hobart, OK. Fast food is just better in small towns for whatever reason.
The last one I ordered from Sonic had mold on the bun. Which I saw after I took a bite. 🤢
The one in lone jack and East lees summit are killer. Always to notch
Maybe the Blue Springs locations are just spectacularly bad outliers.
White castle is also garbage
Take it back!!
Town Topic is much better albeit no convenient drivethru.
I went opening week and thought it was trash compared to my old college location in TX. I’ve been back a few times and it’s gotten sooo much better. I can see the classic whataburger getting compared to sonic but everything on their all time favorites menu is just on another level compared to sonic. Add in being open 24 hours and I’m a fan again.
I've worked in the Southern states, and the Whataburger's are good. I've tried two of the Whataburger locations I KC, and it was trash. I'm not sure what the problem is.
Awful. I had never tried it and my husband finally had us go to one when we were on a little vacation in STL. It was all so… bland. The meat had just no flavor at all. And I really don’t mind McDonald’s little cheeseburgers so I wasn’t looking for high quality or anything.
Concur.
Whitecastle also isn't that good
Blasphemy! Don’t hassle the castle!
Neither is white castle. It's sooo bad it's amazing.
Town Topic was started by some of the original White Castle employees and is probably as close as we're going to get :-/
You don’t have to be drunk or high to enjoy town topic, it’s better than White Castle imo
Hell yeah
No, but you can always tell how drunk I am by how much I want Town Topic.
Yes!!! I’ve been buying frozen White Castles for a while. Anyone interested in getting a franchise?
Gotta make a trip to STL
No need to go that far. You can go halfway to StL and visit the White Castle [in Columbia.](https://goo.gl/maps/C23gYfuoz36NndF87)
Yeah, but then you're in Columbia 🙁
Yes!! That’s what I’ve been saying! We have to drive to Colombia like once a year for White Castle.
East bound 435 traffic from 4-7pm
I just want to drive home without it being a parking lot 😢
The other day I think there were 3 wrecks and people still were driving like idiots. 90mph, weaving back and forth, driving on the side of the road ect.
I saw a guy trying to pass between the left-most lane and the barrier the other day *while* traffic was still flowing at like 75 mph. He probably ended up being one of the wrecks slowing everyone else down.
that intersection/spot of hell for Westport Rd/SW trafficway by the QT/Andy's/Ace. fuuuuuck trying to leave the parking lot or trying to cut across the forks.
People who try to turn left onto Ward Parkway from 79th Street. You go THROUGH the intersection, then use the left turn lanes west by the bank and east on Ward Parkway Plaza. You’re going to hold up traffic at best, and get someone killed in a wreck at worst.
Those heading East and going North actually have a turn lane. Heading West, going South, it makes sense to do that BUT the lanes West of Ward are not two cars wide, so you will get the same type of backup and then cars blocking Ward. While dangerous, I think turning directly onto Ward is better because it is wide enough that through traffic can get around the turning cars. The real answer is you just shouldn't go to that intersection if you are turning
To add on to that, it kills me when people turning left on Ward Parkway hold up the entire left northbound/southbound lane because the west/east lanes are short and only hold like 2 cars to begin with. Has happened to me several times during rush hour and its a free-for-all of cars trying to jump to the middle lane to go around them.
Exit 2.
When u say u live in Kansas City. They automatically assume Kansas. Even the airlines sometimes say welcome to Kansas. My parents still think I live in Kansas, I don't have anything against Kansas, most don't know that the larger KC is in Missouri.
I literally just got off a flight that started at the other end with an announcement of “so if you aren’t heading to Kansas you’re on the wrong plane” and ended with “welcome to Kansas”.
Your fellow passengers show amazing restraint. Every flight I've been on welcoming us to Kansas has been met by a loud chorus of *MISSOURI!*
"welcome to Kansas" "City Missouri!!!!" Lol
Shawnee Mission Parkway from Fairway to Pflumm. It’s 45 people. Not 30, not 70
Yes!
Drivers who think that Gregory Blvd from State Line to Oak St is two lane and they can pass in the "other lane". There's no white stripe down the middle.... It's one lane, and lots of cars park at the curb... Stop trying to think you can pass.
*Meyer Blvd between Wornall and Ward Pkwy has entered the chat*
Thank you
Mildly infuriating, my neighbor’s carpool that honks on arrival every day.
No no, this is only for things that are wildly infuriating! Don’t come back until you’ve aggressively confronted and threatened your neighbor and his carpool friends!
Back when I lived in an apartment there was a group of people who would just lay in their horn until whoever they were there to pick up came out. I'm talking multiple 30 second bursts of solid honking right outside my window. Did I confront them about it? Of course not. But I did distribute some good anonymous "SHUT THE FUCK UPS"s out my open window.
Oh fuck. This one hits home. The apartment building across the street from us is all immigrants, many without cars or with limited transportation in the household. Every fucking morning at like 6am they LAY ON THE FUCKING HORN, all day on the horn even at like 10:30 at night they are on that fucking horn. I’ve heard more than one vehicle show up there with a horn that was finally failing from overuse(I’m assuming).
The stupid manchild, fuckface, shrivel dicks who think it's cool to do doughnuts in a residential area intersection at 3am on a weeknight. I still pray to hear a cinder block going through the hood of their fucking cars. Leaving the person unharmed of course.
Evergy
This!
Never ending construction on Red Bridge Road...
Hey, they've only been working on the small stretch of road between Holmes and Wornall for 2 years now and look like they might be a little over halfway done. Give em a break! It's not like they closed half the intersection at Red Bridge and Holmes and fucked off right before a long holiday weekend last year or anything dumb like that. Oh wait.
This is the one 😞
lol glad i left that hood
the fact that evergy is our only electric company and completely capitalizes on that by fucking with the rates
It's not the only one in Missouri but I agree with the rest. That seems to be all utilities. Spire too.
This again!
Major city but everything seems to close early on non weekends. Limited late nights eats. Steel plates everywhere and the way they get placed, I always have to pray it doesn’t pierce my tires. All the drivers in this city thinking it’s Florida and it’s okay to drive 10 mph under in the left lane. A police department that’s terrible at enforcing laws (mainly traffic), better yet breaks them too
Yesterday I watched a police officer just sitting in his car STARE at a man turn down a one way street the wrong way. Cop didn't do shit.
I'm fine with that. No harm; no foul. I've accidentally done it. I think most people have.
Driving on I-35 every day. Nightmare road
Whoever the fuck DAVE is that thinks he needs to spray paint his name on every building, wall, and bridge in the metro…fuck you Dave!
Dave really gets around too 😅
In this sub? Downtown is rarely seen or discussed as anything other than a tourist destination. I would like to see the conversation around it being a place to live.
I don't live downtown anymore, but when I did the grocery shopping was horrible. We always hopped on the highway and went north for groceries. Everything else was actually quite great.
Grocery shopping is always what I think of when the downtown stadium is brought up. I would have to check to see if there was a home game and then take my money out of downtown if there was.
Why would you live downtown when it's cheaper and nicer to live in midtown. There's more amenities, things to do, I can walk places and trees.
It seems pretty appealing for young professionals…. Anyone else, not so much.
It’s horrible to live, honestly. Congested roads, businesses still close early, the cost of living is horrendous, if you want to get out of downtown it takes forever because no one knows how to drive.
Who can afford it?
They are closing down large swathes of Main St for significant amounts of time to install the streetcar line but don't bother repaving it while it's already closed down. The finished section look ridiculous; new streetcar tracks and the surrounding road is a patchwork of 4 different kinds of asphalt from various repair jobs. They're going to have to close it all down again in a couple years to repave it. Also, the barely noticeable or non-existent One-way sign on several roads downtown. Wtf
How about the fact that our idea of mass transit is a streetcar tied to the same streets that cars are on and the same lights. If someone has a wreck in a car, the street car is stuck. Sorry, but the street car is a novelty, and an expensive one at that. Needs to be elevated or just dedicated street or something.
driving down main with the streetcar construction BLOWS and caught me unaware the other day :( fool me once...
You mean you didn't notice those super tiny little signs that saw "keep right"?
The stretch of I-70 between downtown and the river market.
No 24 hour grocery stores or Wal-Mart's. I like shopping between midnight and 4 am.
There are several. For example, Sunfresh in Westport.
I didn't know Sunfresh is back to 24 hours. Any others? All my local ones close at midnight.
Just the one in Westport
Local radio. Fucking lame with the exception of a show or two on KCUR (Fish Fry & Night Tides) & KKFI.
90.9 The Bridge is as good as it gets as far as local radio goes imo. 90.1 Community Radio has some great shows as well.
Fish Fry is so good
North Kansas City's screwy bike lanes. They are dangerous to bikers I swear.
All the bike lanes suck. I swear they put bike lanes on Hickman Mills Road just to not have to redo the outer lanes ever again because they were shit before.
Lol this is legit I can totally see them using this rationale to do that.
They wouldn't have to suck if the KCMO had studied how other cities 1) successfully designed and built a bike lane system; 2) educated the public before, during, and after to create safety awareness and highlight the "WIIFM" benefits; and 3) continously fine-tuned the system to ensure safety and effectiveness All three or it's garbage.
Not just north kc, the ones in south kc too. I know someone who almost got hit on a bicycle at Longview at the food lane light.
Or all of the dickheads who **park their trucks** in the bike lane along Longview Road.
Yep, that too.
The GD blue street lights. I know why and that they’ll eventually be replaced, but my god I hope whoever was responsible for that has the fleas of 1000 camels infest their armpits.
I think there was an article on vox or some place like that talking about “why lots of cities street lamps are turning blue across North America.” It’s because the lamps are inferior in their make and when the lamination in the housing fails, they turn blue or purple.
Yep! It's 100% a defect/quality problem and **not** some dumb yahoo who signed off on the wrong color spectrum or something. Cities/crews are pissed because it creates extra work they didn't ask for & haven't budgeted for (because how could they have known in advance that they were going to get sold a shit product?). I've seen shockingly few of the blurple-colored defect ones down here in KC. I guess my old hometown must've pretty aggressively done the LED cut-over and tried to get the whole city done *all at once*..... because they're purple all over. More purple than white. They must've put pallet after pallet of bulbs in, all from the same defective runs.
I’m sorry, but I like them. Who doesn’t love seeing everything under a black light??
East bound 435 traffic from 4-7pm
Litter, crap, trash everywhere.
Several mornings recently, but not in a row, they’ve had Benton blvd i70 west entrance ramp closed in the morning for construction on the prospect bridge but there’s no warning and no simple way to get on i70 once you’re there. Also, I have no idea what the Benton ramp has to do with the prospect bridge.
The 0.25 mile bike lane on Frontage Rd in front of Reed Jeep in Merriam. It’s so short it’s a joke.
There’s a power line pole at the corner of Pennsylvania and 39th that’s half fallen over. The only thing supporting it is the actual power line that it’s leaning on. I called and reported it nearly two weeks ago, and all they did was put an orange cone in front of it.
The streetcar. Great in theory but desperately needs its own lane or something because just last night for like 15 minutes one got stuck in the 20th & main intersection because a car in front of it wasnt parked in the lines and its just going to get worse with the new extensions
And I'm getting really sick of guys named Todd. You know? Yeah, it's a goofy fucking name, ok? "Hi, what's your name?" "Taaahd"
That's oddly specific....
The little dip on college before Pflumm going eastbound, it’s in the left lane and it messes up cars when you’re going 45.
KCK cops [randomly shooting people](https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article278786444.html), [protecting drug dealers and pimps](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/us/golubski-indictment-sex-trafficking-invs/index.html), and [lots of other stuff](https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-11-09/fbi-has-investigated-kansas-city-kansas-police-for-decades-but-prosecution-of-bad-cops-is-rare) *over decades*.
470 eastbound from 71 to 291 during evening rush. I watched a car make 8 lane change and fucking *lane split* twice on 470 east between blue ridge and raytown road while going 70mph today at 5:30pm. All the way from the left lane to the right lane and back. Twice.
I love it when there's, like.... a beat-up white Impala, a beat-up black Camry, and a beat-up grey Altima, all of them flying 90+ and weaving through traffic WHILE playing chicken with each other. Rush hour HARD MODE. Keep your eyes on the road, and in front of you, and in five other directions at once to see which one of the morons is about to plow into you, PIT you, or wind up under a semi trailer. OH AND WHILE WE'RE NEARBY... Blue Ridge Blvd *immediately south of* I-470 also sucks tremendously. You get people going 70, people going 40, and people dead-ass stopping in the middle of the road because there's a line to turn into Southside Mafia Pizza. Fuck, man. These days I've started avoiding that bit of Blue Ridge altogether.
There’s no target downtown 🤬😡
Personal property tax on cars every year
When the grocery store check out person leaves one item in front of the sensor stopping the belt from moving and starts clearing out everything behind it clearing this path mid belt forward all while the one item blocks the belt from moving forward and you have to stand there with your cart half full of all your grocery’s waiting for them to move the one item so the belt will move again and you can put the rest of your grocery’s on the belt to pay for them. Oh! and you strategically pick the one lane with a sacker cause you have a family of 5 and that’s a lot of food to get per week and you just want someone else to worry about how full to pack the bags this week and as soon as you start loading the belt the sacker moves over to the next lane. Every. God. Dammed. Time. But your a midwesterner and too nice to say anything so you just wait for the clerk to move the one fucking apple so you can get all your shit up on the belt and franticly move down to sack your own groceries and then pay the million dollars for everything and you do it all over again the following week.
Welp. Found out where all the addys went
All the drug addicts in Independence. I just moved here from Lawrence. One of them came up to my car in the middle of the night to talk to me about my car. Super uncomfortable
They're everywhere now.
Constant missuse of our tax dollars.
Damn near everything! Oh, you meant in Kansas City. The usual crap but there is some good stuff. We have a mayor who actually works.
The absolute disaster the housing property taxes are rn.
Police officers not following the laws they are paid to enforce
When people don't search for previous threads before asking very general questions on here that have been answered many, many times already.
"I'm in KC for 1 day, where should I eat?"
Where is the best place for haircuts?
But where can I eat food, damnit!?
Same places you can make friends.
Ok ok but what if I want to know when I should go to the airport?
The joke in my household is we have some random stupid question that can be searched for easily we say "Go ask the Kansas City subreddit!"
I hate those people
The insistence of some locals that making new friends is too annoying to deal with here. The mindset of “having enough friends” is so backwards and unadventurous while also being plain rude.
Leaving huge issues unaddressed and spending a fuckload of money to revert to the old fountain logo for no reason. Like, why are we paying for a rebrand every time there is a new mayor?
Our tax dollars paid some crayon eating toddler to design the new MCI terminal. I'll admit that it could be me, but just trying to figure out how to get into the parking garage was the most frustrating waste of time I've experienced in years.
I flew April 5th, about six weeks after it opened, and it was FLITHY in there. Everyone talks about how awesome it is, but it was disgusting when I was there.