KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Longtime light rail activist Clay Chastain is promoting his plan for a 40-mile Kansas City system ahead of the November election.
Chastain outlined the plan Monday. Chastain says the system could be built for $45 million per mile.
Destinations would include the Kansas City International Airport, the Truman Sports Complex and the Kansas City Zoo. Chastain says suburbs would want to build their own connections to the system.
Although Chastain gathered enough signatures to trigger an election, members of the City Council don’t support his plan. He says that if voters reject the plans, he will “accept that and consider the light rail issue in Kansas City is dead.”
This spring, the city began operating a 2.2-mile downtown streetcar line.