Wanted: Streetcar for KC starter line. Must be cheap.

There are probably just as many opinions about light rail as there are people who voted for it. That's a good thing. People are excited and engaged. Rather than sit back and wait and hope, the voters have, in my opinion, said that they want a light rail component in our future transit system. Now the problem. The plan is unworkable. Even the voters know it. The 3/8 cent sales tax is not enough to fund an entire line from KCI to the Zoo. That's not even mentioning the electric buses and the idiotic gondola idea. Ask Portland about building a gondola system. $15 million turned into $50 million real quick. Maybe if Worlds of Fun still has their old gondolas in storage somewhere... Most people I talk to voted for light rail, not the actual "plan" put forth on the ballot. I don't know anyone outside of the person who put it on the ballot that believes it is a good plan. What I don't understand is the thinking that everything is an all-or-nothing proposition. Why can't we move forward in stages? Break the whole plan up into affordable segments. Let's say each segment is $100 million. If that means building a station and a piece of track to nowhere, so be it. You spend the money you have, not the money you want. How about putting all these stages on a ballot? Let the voters decide where to start. Maybe the first "stage" of a plan would be land acquisition. There's going to be some cost involved with acquiring a right-of-way. Property owners will have to be compensated. Not very sexy I know. But sometimes good government is more than appeasing the vocal minority.