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Mayor Q @mayorq.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Councilman Bunch has long been an expert and advocate for transit and mobility access for all Kansas Citians. He will serve us well. Three Kansas Citians serve on the KCATA board, which comprises 10 total individuals from metro counties in Missouri and Kansas.

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Honored to get this appointment and very excited to get to work. As a local legislator and a regular public transit rider, I will bring a unique perspective to the KCATA board of commissioners.

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

It wouldn’t be social media if I didn’t brag about my kids occasionally. Here is one of our 8 year olds crushing this really steep overhang where she can’t even reach the footholds because she’s too short. Didn’t get the send this time but figured out the beta.

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Really proud to serve on this council with such thoughtful folks.

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Sara Copeland @skcopeland.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

KC friends, is there any kind of YIMBY group or other organizing force working to increase housing here? Or is it all decentralized neighborhoods groups and individuals?

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/01/2025

Elon Musk is what happens when you create a society that believes technology can achieve anything and collective action can achieve nothing

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

kinda funny that all it took to defeat traffic in the most crowded city in the country was only a simple $9 congestion relief zone

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A Tesla thinking a train is maybe just a line of cars is the most Tesla thing I can think of.

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

And I think the most salient point to be gleaned is Democrats lose elections, not on the left-right fault lines, rather we lack convictions in our positions and voters lose confidence in us.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"Oh, but this just shows the nerdy, detail-obsessed nature of Japanese people," you say. Perhaps. But these publications can't exist without a distribution system (i.e., newsstands). And those newsstands can't exist without *dense walkable neighborhoods.*

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Just had to help a mom carry her double stroller through this snowbank so we could go out into the street to catch the bus. Another person had to help her older kid climb over a 3’ tall pile to catch a school bus. We have to do better.

Snow pile at the curb with a low spot in the snow where people are climbing through. A car is blocking the low spot and then more traffic beyond that.

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

More evening shenanigans in this house.

Woman holding two 8 year old kids in a living room.

Woman holding carrying two 8 year old kids up an old oak staircase.

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Speaking of cats… our void has apparently found a new murder perch.

A black cat on the highest cabinet in a kitchen.

A black cat on the highest cabinet in a kitchen. Zoomed in 2x

A black cat on the highest cabinet in a kitchen. Zoomed in 3x

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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 13/01/2025

Traffic has decreased. 273,000 fewer vehicles entered Manhattan below 60 Street from Monday to Friday last week.

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

TBF, I would say this council term followed by the last one are the most pedestrian friendly councils in recent KC history. Snow is tricky in this climate because we get just enough for it to be occasionally debilitating but not enough to have a true winter culture that manages the snow well.

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Perhaps another approach to this problem would be to add a new section to the code that says if you push snow onto the sidewalk from private property, you will be fined. As opposed to my resolution asking city manager to enforce the existing code that requires prop owners to clear sidewalks.

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Stopping to say hi to all the cats in windows is part of our kids’ daily routine on the walk to school.

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katie eschbacher @hikatie.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

this mountain next to the 39th St Starbucks parking lot had me wound up yesterday - cleared their four spot lot but blocked the sidewalk from the neighbors or anyone parking on the street

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

New paper finds that Bus Rapid Transit improves street safety: "The construction of Albuquerque Rapid Transit correlated with significant reductions in crashes attributed to excessive speed (for all modes) and left turning vehicles (for all modes and pedestrians)." doi.org/10.1016/j.mu...

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 09/01/2025

It seems like nitpicking, but when city-owned properties like City Market clear the path to the parking lot and leave the sidewalk connection that so many neighbors use to patronize it every day untouched, it sends a loud message about priorities.

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I’m introducing a resolution today for same day adoption today calling on city manager to begin enforcement of Section 62-646 requiring property owners to clear their sidewalks. Resolution will also call for a plan to address this challenge better in the future.

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Folks, please, if you’re gonna clear your parking lot, for the love of god, clear the snow off your sidewalks too.

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Tim @beertheist.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The surface lot on the SW corner of 18th and Oak seems to have purposely piled the snow on the two sidewalk segments on its north side. I promise you there are sidewalks under those mounds of snow. Car storage for comparison

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Tim @beertheist.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Shout out to The Hub smoke shop. Literally the only business I passed on 18th that cleared their ADA ramp. Every other street it was climbing over knee-high snow banks. If you vape, give them business - 501 E 18th St

A cleared sidewalk with the ADA ramp cleared

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

And parents: be kind to your co-workers as they are not the ones who ruined your furniture or drove nails into your hardwood floors last week. 🤷‍♂️

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Also, an act doesn’t have to be intentional, flagrant, or negligent to be violent. “There’s a high risk of violent storms in the forecast” for example. Calling traffic injuries and deaths “traffic violence” underscores the trauma inflicted by the systemic failures of our transportation system.

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Hey friends, be patient with your coworkers who have school age kids. They’ve been yelling at their kids to stop hoverboarding in the house for three weeks straight. Yes her hoverboard has a speaker playing Pearl Jam.

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Luke Ranker🚶‍♂️ @lukeranker.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Looks like we’re getting the Gillham/Oak cycle track cleaned

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Zachary @zachishere.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

1928 at the Westgate Hotel. "Shipwreck Kelly" performing a daredevil act sitting on top of a flagpole in Kansas City around what is 9th and Main today.

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

👀 Look at that beautiful sidewalk! 👀

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Crews starting to dig bike lanes out of the snow! Still a lot of snow out there so be patient with the plow operators, they have been working nonstop for over three days now.

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The single sentence on this sign (in the first picture) sums up the problem with our built environment as perfectly as I have ever seen. “We’ve made it so that automobiles can go everywhere at the expense of children going anywhere” Auto dependence ruins kids’ independence.

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Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 07/01/2025

Kansas City should simply put it back

7th and Main in 1900, today, and in the future. Images show destruction of historic neighborhood and potential for highway removal and urban infill

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

A little sledding in Hyde Park yesterday.

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Eric Rogers @ericrogers.org · 06/01/2025

RideKC Bike isn't on here yet, so heads up we pulled many bikes off the street before the storm & closed operations thru today to keep our crew safe Thanks for your patience as we return to normal deployment levels when conditions improve. Thankfully KCMO predated mobility lanes b4 the snow!🤞🏻🚲❄️

Photo of a person on a RideKC Bike in the summer time.

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Clarence Eckerson Jr./Streetfilms @streetfilms.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

OMG! Someone asked me to pinpoint where these photos were taken. I went to the metadata and…well…the intersection of Canal and Bourbon Streets. Exactly where the killer entered with his truck.

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twebb10.bsky.social @twebb10.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

It’s actually on E Pershing at Signboard Hill, what is now Crown Center

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Eric Rogers @ericrogers.org · 31/12/2024

"Waymo says it follows 'social norms' rather than laws" 🤦🏼‍♂️

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Because driving is more virtuous than walking, of course! Pretty sure that’s in Nicomachean Ethics.

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Just finished my favorite book of the year. Read it in 2 days! One of my 8 year olds picked it out for me.

Photo of the cover of James by Percival Everett

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Eric Bunch @ericbunch.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Logged back into X to check in. Looked at my last post, these were the replies. This was not unusual engagement in the last year. Trigger warning: racism, homophobia, ableism, etc.

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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I feel like the only hope is zoning reform that allows for new residents who are less entrenched in preserving the status quo. But the wealthy homeowner opposition to increased housing density is so extreme, this also feels near impossible. See: www.theurbanist.org/2024/12/20/l...

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Last Chance to Comment on Revised Seattle Housing Plan - The Urbanist

# Today is the last day for public comments in the latest round of process around the One Seattle Comprehensive Plan proposed by Mayor Bruce Harrell to guide the next 20 years of city growth. Housing ...

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Cheese on Everything 🧀 @astroyacht.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Imagine you’re on your way to work today and you see a fully padded Eric Wilson in the street riding a bike

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