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The Kansas City streetcar map peaked at 25 routes, but the last 20th century route was closed in 1957. Prior to 1908, streetcars on some routes were propelled by grasping underground cables. [1] Streetcars in Kansas City were the primary public transit mode during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, like most North American cities.
- The Beginning of Streetcars
- Motor Buses and Automobiles
- Trolleys and The Battle For The Streetcar
- The Streetcar Returns
The first streetcars in Kansas City were pulled by mules and horses starting in 1869. Locally, mules were more common, Worley said. The cable car era began in the early 1880s in San Francisco. Very soon after, Kansas City began using cable cars in the same decade. From 1895 to 1912, ridership increased from 31 million fare-paying riders to nearly 1...
The arrival of the motor bus in 1924 introduced a new form of public transportation to Kansas City. In 1925, the first year motor bus data was documented, bus ridership made up only 1% of total revenue transit passengers. In 1926, the Kansas City Public Service Co. took over running the city’s public transportation, consolidating ownership of publi...
In 1937, the trolley bus was introduced, which was a hybrid between the streetcar and motor bus. The first year data was available for trolley ridership was in 1940 with reports of 9,724,027 trolley bus revenue passengers carried, making up 15% of the total riders for the year. Reports for 1938 and 1939 were not available, but it still only took th...
The Kansas City public transportation system, in many ways, looks both different and similar to the way it did when ridership was at its highest. The new streetcar debuted in May 2016 with nearly 1.4 million unlinked passenger trips for the partial year. Trips peaked in 2019, reaching over 2.2 million unlinked passenger trips. Without paid fares, r...
Nov 22, 2013 · The History Of The Kansas City Streetcar. Kansas City, Mo., is well on its way to building a downtown streetcar line. In the works is a two-mile project from River Market to Union Station, and it ...
Jun 22, 2022 · Motor Buses and Automobiles. The arrival of the motor bus in 1924 introduced a new form of public transportation to Kansas City. In 1925, the first year motor bus data was documented, bus ridership made up only 1% of total revenue transit passengers. In 1926, the Kansas City Public Service Co. took over running the city’s public ...
Sep 19, 2023 · In 1885, Kansas Citian John C. Henry invented the electric cable car, which he called a trolley. Fun fact: This was the first time cable cars were referred to as trolleys. By 1908, horse power and cable lines around KC were converted to electric trolleys — minus the 12th Street lines between Washington Street and the stockyards.
Streetcars in Kansas City were the primary public transit mode during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, like most North American cities. [2] [3] Kansas City, Missouri once had one of the most extensive streetcar systems in North America, but the last of its 25 streetcar routes was shut down in 1957. [4]
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Nov 11, 2018 · Classen wrote he teamed up with Shartel in launching the trolleys, and they quickly started finding buyers for more remote properties that were no longer seen as too far out from the city's core thanks to streetcar connections. “We became a suburban city in 1903 when the first part of the streetcar system was completed,” Blackburn said.
