A small crowd gathered last Friday for the official "barricade removal" ceremony hosted by KCMO
Mayor Funkhouser. In attendance was
Jerry and Jean Bos, Alderman Finn, Pat Medill (who had a supply of pom-poms),
Denise McPherson, Lynn Hinkle, Steve Clark and a few other Weatherbeans...I don't think there was a KCMO resident in the group...odd, huh? Noticeably absent were the Funk's sidekick Gloria who attended the closing ceremony/press conference and the West ward aldermen
DeJong and Hoy, KCMO aldermen Ford and Johnson were AWOL as well. I didn't get to watch the news on Friday, too busy wrapping up work. Two TV stations had crews there plus a helicopter circling overhead. Here are the comments I captured:
Spokesperson Sean Demory:
"The new bridge is worlds safer, an improvement over the country road"
The Funk:
Acknowledged the "Barry Road Mothers". Said the road had "taken too long", it is now a "much safer bridge from the two lane country road it was" "the residents have pushed this along" "we are not done" the road is now "worlds better".
And with that the Funk and Demory shoved the barricade aside and the ceremonial school bus burned rubber and headed up the virgin black top. Our neighbor
Mr Cummings was the first official passenger vehicle.
The road is far from finished, needs one more layer of asphalt, sidewalks, etc, but the West side is cheering for the return of the BRB/BRC.
2 comments:
Mike,
Alderman Mary Hoy was NOT present for this because she had an emergency in her family. Her son's house burnt to the ground. Luckily, his family escaped without injuries. This is why she was not there.
I was at the WLIC office about 8:30 that morning and Dr. Mary came into City Hall. She was in town.
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