I just drove through KC coming back from my Katy trail trip on Tuesday evening.

I don't understand why anyone would live there. Traffic on 435 at 6:30PM looked as bad as what you would expect at 5. I bet all that 6:30 traffic got off work at 5. Multiple backups and over an hour to go about 15 miles at one point. There were countless very aggressive drivers zigging and zagging everywhere, every time the road opened up to something approximating highway speeds. Surface roads in the sprawl were parking lots.

I lived there in 99, but I lived and worked in Johnson county and only had to travel about 8 miles to work opposite the main cager throngs (lived off 75th, worked off 135th). Back then there was a vote to build light rail half-funded by the feds, and it was defeated. It's a city where the schools near most offices are horrid, so everyone moves into the sprawl: then they choose to sit in their cars and battle *******s for 2+ hours every day rather than sit by their neighbors on the train. What a crap-hole city, filled with the stupidest drivers anywhere. You can keep it. I can't imagine anyone with a family choosing to live there (I don't have a family, and I chose to leave anyway).