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The first intercity bus station in Kansas City was the Union Bus Terminal, which opened in 1929 at 917 McGee Street. [1] On March 19, 1967, a new Greyhound bus terminal opened at 1111 Holmes Street. The new terminal was designed by Kivett & Myers for $3 million, and included a 300 space parking facility, 12 bus bays, a cafeteria, cocktail ...
The first electric streetcar operated in Kansas City on September 6, 1889. [7] By 1908, all but one of Kansas City's streetcar routes had been converted to electricity. [1] When the Kansas City Public Service Company (KCPS) was created in 1925, it inherited over 700 streetcars that had been owned and operated by private companies. [5]
Kansas City Public Service Company (1926-1960) Kansas City Transit (1960-1969), a name change for the Public Service Company; Kansas City acquired 184 PCC streetcars after 1941, but streetcar operations ceased in June 1957. Over the history of streetcar operations, there were 25 streetcar routes in Kansas City operating on 318 miles of track.
The Kansas City massacre occurred on June 17, 1933, in front of Union Station, while captured fugitive Frank Nash was to be delivered to prison via train. Four lawmen (including FBI) were murdered by the Kansas City crime family with Tompson submachine guns in an attempt to free Nash, [9] who was also killed in the
No. 11: Unearth the history of Kansas City’s lost Black neighborhood, demolished for city park. Belvidere Hollow was a vibrant Black neighborhood in Kansas City, ...
The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) is a public transit agency in metropolitan Kansas City. It operates the Metro Area Express (MAX) bus rapid transit service in Kansas City, Missouri, and 78 local bus routes in seven counties of Missouri and Kansas. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 12,006,600, about 41,500 per weekday ...
Kansas City history database from the Kansas City Public Library Archived June 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine; Sween, The Kansas City Star's 125th Anniversary homepage "Pictorial History of Kansas City and Wyandotte County Kansas Archived 2006-08-19 at the Wayback Machine". August 2000. Vintage Kansas City.com; Murrel Bland, History of ...
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