Main Street

It's gotten even harder to get around downtown Kansas City. After a "track failure" caused by the summer heat, the KC Streetcar has suspended service — and it likely will be down for several weeks. With construction still ongoing for the extension to UMKC, the incident is raising questions about the durability of the streetcar infrastructure.

As construction on the KC Streetcar extension to UMKC continues, crews are now working 24/7 on emergency repairs to address a track failure on the line above I-670. It will take weeks to complete the repairs, and service is suspended in the meantime.

The restaurant Tailleur, cocktail bar Cheval and bakery Enchanté have come to define this constantly-under-construction intersection of Main Street and Westport Road, located right on the KC Streetcar line.

Now that underground utility work is nearly finished on Main Street, KC Streetcar workers broke ground Wednesday on the system’s extension from Union Station to UMKC. Officials anticipate to start ferrying riders sometime in 2025.

After a year of water and utility work on Main Street, sewer upgrades are just beginning, as well as actual work on the KC Streetcar extension. But some businesses are still struggling with the traffic diversions and lack of parking, with years of work still ahead.

Drivers are frustrated by traffic on Main Street ahead of the KC Streetcar expansion, but most of that is preliminary work on underground utilities. Then the real construction will begin.

The announcement marks the third major grant the KC Streetcar Authority has received this year.

The announcement comes just over two weeks after the U.S. Department of Transportation announced a $50 million grant for a southbound extension to the University of Missouri- Kansas City.

The Kansas City Art Institute kicked off construction on Friday of a new liberal arts building, part of a $30 million campus building program that’s…

Segment 1: Poetry Editor for The New Yorker was influenced by childhood in Topeka.Kevin Young's latest collection of poems Brown reminisces about his…

The 11-story former Netherlands Hotel is slated to be redeveloped into 110 apartments, part of a Main Street development surge linked to the planned…

More than 300 people gathered downtown Friday to watch officials ranging from the mayor to the acting administrator of the Federal Transit Administration…