Northeast News
Nov. 16, 2015

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Testing of Kansas City’s streetcar continues this week along the entire route from City Market to Crown Center.

According to a press release from the KC Streetcar Authority, motorists should anticipate the streetcar to make runs on Main Street and around the River Market on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 17-19, this week. These tests will take place in the morning.

Motorist are advised to park inside the white lines. The Parking Policy Board has just approved a demonstration of 100 new, state of the art parking meters along the route. The new meters will be able to take coins or credit cards. When parking along the streetcar route, please make sure the entire parked vehicle is within the white painted line, this includes wheels and side mirrors.

Parking along the streetcar route is also allowed but vehicles must park within the painted white lines along the route. This means that every portion of the vehicle, including the side mirrors, must be inside the painted white lines. This is to ensure that the streetcar has clearance to run along the tracks without any interference. Since a streetcar cannot swerve, it cannot move out of the way of parked vehicles. Vehicles should also never park on the streetcar tracks. The KCPD Parking Enforcement will ticket, fine and possibly tow vehicles that are improperly parked on a streetcar route, including those that park on the tracks.

For more information about the streetcar, visit www.kcstreetcar.org.