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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 15/09/2026

Also, some of these folks go HARD on the halloween decorations.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 15/09/2026

That was my Sunday afternoon, and it was so uplifting — aside from rolling by this demolition on the way back home.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 10/09/2026

If you're breathlessly worried about street parking, you might want to do something about these selfish folks who turn 4 spots into 2.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 09/09/2026

You know that thing when you're typing in a URL and you accidentally hit enter one character before autocomplete finishes it for you? This is a rough AI summary for Mr. Sheeran.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 31/08/2026

How Kansas City undermines multifamily at every level, making the most economically productive housing typology less amenitized and more expensive: Despite being a residential building, our address doesn't count as residential and does not qualify for the city's dumpster program.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 14/08/2026

When what is the KC suburbs' most iconic sprawling office complex, Corporate Woods, launches a plan to go fake city with mixed use development and housing, it is the final acknowledge that the suburban model of single use with sprawling disconnection was a terrible, unsustainable idea.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 13/08/2026

Building to accommodate cars means entire blocks get sacrificed for garage access and back of house, leaving absolutely nothing to the street level experience but blank walls.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 05/08/2026

I finished my 5th summer reading book last night!

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 30/07/2026

The double size is not hyperbole, and this isn't a micro car. There are so many trucks in the airport parking garage, you can't find your car.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 28/07/2026

Spotted this unintentionally poignant exemplar of a scene just now and it reminded me to come back to this post.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 25/07/2026

For once I got out of KC on the right weather day! Glorious!

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 12/07/2026

Goodnight Fanfest. It's been real.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 08/07/2026

Nature abhors a trillionaire.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 03/07/2026

There's a segment of lefty thinking that just wants to fight over the remaining scraps of a sinking ship. We'd still be a ghost town if this thinking prevailed. Tourism is huge for local economies. Fight over the priorities for how we grow and invest as we build back our urban economy instead.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 29/06/2026

Searching for something and randomly landed on this photo of my cubicle table in 2007. Quite the time capsule.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 26/06/2026

Sorry, forgot to translate the last two for you!

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 26/06/2026

The journalist I was chatting with on WhatsApp to help him find good KC spots answering questions of his followers on IG. Interesting insight into how outsiders see our city. No surprise, the cars are isolating.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 25/06/2026

For a moment in Downtown KC, people were on their balconies chatting with passers by, a passenger train departed Union Stations, and the streets were full of people. More of this European cosplay please!

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 24/06/2026

It is a bit surreal that this is in a hotel I passed this morning on my run along the riverfront. And I think I've stayed in this exact room for a NYE staycation. Scenery has changed a bit.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 24/06/2026

And they're still almost entirely dead zones outside of game days or celebrations, even when tightly integrated into their neighborhoods like Emirates is.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 21/06/2026

Riding to the World Cup is easy peasy. Choose the all trail path with monitored parking and a free shuttle, arrive at the "official" bike parking at the Rock Island trailhead, or just ride on in unofficially like I did.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 17/06/2026

The @kclibrary.bsky.social Summer Reading program theme is "Read, Score, Roar!," combining dinosaurs and soccer. Anyway can sign up! But an important debate here: if a dinosaur manipulates the ball with its horn, is it considered handball by the laws of the game? kclibrary.org/reading-prog...

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 13/06/2026

I was way ahead of this trend.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 11/06/2026

Do you know the address? kchistory.org has a bunch of stuff tagged under Warner Plaza Apartments (demo'ed) and Midtown Marketplace. Absolutely heartbreaking. kchistory.org/solr-search/...

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 04/06/2026

Are we really proud of this? I've lived here for 23 years and I've never seen this as some cultural value. It's just what we do because there aren't other options, and the teams monetize the parking. Welcome world! Our land use sucks!

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 04/06/2026

Gotta love a brazen push poll. I wonder who these hypothetical people could be? 😂

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 03/06/2026

How car dependency metastasizes: streets close for parking, secure car storage, or to eliminate cut through traffic, disconnecting the grid and forcing pedestrians to go blocks out of their way. This is Union Hill in KC, a block from @kcstreetcar.org but an enforced three block walk.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 02/06/2026

Han llegado! Lots of international press here. This is getting real.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 02/06/2026

They have arrived at the Nelson! Vamos al River Market!

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 02/06/2026

Still at the Nelson as of 10:15, so you have time to catch up if you're interested. I'll post again with a more realistic ETA for Grand bike ped bridge.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 29/05/2026

Passed it thousands of times, but never toured the Frank Lloyd Wright designed church right on @kcstreetcar.org This June 13 event fixes that, ft. tours and speakers outlining the architectural significance and preservation efforts of the building. www.eventbrite.com/e/experience...

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 28/05/2026

I'm curious: in cities where delivery drivers break bulk outside the core and use smaller vehicles instead of driving oversized trucks into neighborhoods, did it come about because of regulatory influence or just practical reality?

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 27/05/2026

I already thought the fact that we routinely have two people beating the shit out of each other on the TV in the background while having dinner at a restaurant was an apt symbol of civilizational decline. That fact that they're hosting it at the White House....

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 13/05/2026

After riding a few trains in the last week, you get used to the layout and immediately notice how weird this one is. Sleepers behind coach! The views in the Columbia valley are amazing though. The train hugs the shore most of the way.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 13/05/2026

Fun fact: the Empire Builder train I'm on (28) gets coupled with the one from Seattle for the rest of the trip to Chicago. We get the observation car and they get the dining car, so no seated dinner tonight. And their delay is our delay! 🍻

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 12/05/2026

Right here in black and white: parking costs killed housing. If we don't ween off of our car dependence, we can't achieve affordability.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 11/05/2026

It's lovely. And lively! I'm sure the weather helps. I'm a bit shocked by how car-centric it still is, though. Like how is J a high speed one way to the freeway? They're trying with some traffic calming. But I'm an impossible nerd about such things.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 11/05/2026

Four hours to burn in Sacramento before catching an actual midnight train to Portland. 10 years ago I'd probably go to a brewery, but I've had a beer and want to sleep tonight. What to do?

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 07/05/2026

Hello from the surprise Grand Junction, CO layover! There's a train waiting!

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 01/05/2026

The fact that the driver of the truck here probably doesn't even see the car when behind it in an intersection is insane. The fact that most Americans would call the size of the car unreasonable first is tragic.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 06/04/2026

@arseblog.com is Mikel having a hair out of place for the first time in his a career a sign of declining standards or a loss of plot?

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 30/03/2026

It is still absolutely bonkers to me that we pay to maintain these parts of the city where one must travel through other municipalities or go for a swim to reach them. Letting Lee's Summit or Raytown take them would be better for all parties.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 27/03/2026

I appreciate the BBC for adding important context around who this "Messi" person is.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 25/03/2026

A highway-adjacent entertainment district with such terrible land use that it needs a circulator bus just to move people between its "next door" neighbors. But good luck getting there without a car in the first place. And now the poor Kansas taxpayers are on the hook to build a stadium there.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 17/03/2026

No Google, I meant what I said the first time.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 13/03/2026

Worst toy ever. Explains Boomers, though.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 04/03/2026

Third category: freeways that drove demolition of neighborhoods but then never ended up getting built.

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Matt Staub @staubio.com · 02/03/2026

From FIFA's World Cup volunteer training info. THIS is how you do a "getting here" section. Stop just sending "parking" info and lead with values that normalize the use of transit. And if you're going to validate parking (you shouldn't), you should pay bus fares too.

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