Open House Meetings for MAX on Troost, April 28 & 29

Posted on: Apr 24, 2008

The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) is holding open houses to invite the community to learn and provide input about the new MAX Bus Rapid Transit service coming to Troost Avenue. The route will start downtown, continue along Troost Avenue to Hospital Hill, then continue to the Bannister redevelopment area. Monday, April 28, 2008 6-8 p.m. Cleaver Family YMCA 7000 Troost Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6-8 p.m. Metro Center 3827 Troost KCATA hopes to make it as convenient as possible for the public to provide input on such issues as station design and locations, integration into surrounding neighborhoods and opportunities for station enhancements. We planned these public meetings as open houses so that people can stop in for 15-20 minutes and get a good idea of the whole project without having to take a lot of time out of their day,” said Keith Sanders, KCATA project manager. MAX Bus Rapid Transit was first introduced in Kansas City in the Main Street corridor in July 2005. MAX is helping to change the face of transit in Kansas City, being held up as a national model by the Federal Transit Administration. Ridership has grown more than 40% in the Main Street MAX corridor. Part of MAX’s success has been the unique branding of MAX buses and stations, featuring real-time arrival signs. “We are excited to be associated with this transit project in the Troost corridor,” said Leonard Graham, president of Taliaferro & Brown, Inc., a local engineering firm that is leading the design effort. “We believe that this effort will not only provide an exciting transit upgrade for The Metro’s highest ridership route, but will be yet another contributor to revitalizing the Troost corridor.”