Ward 7 was promised a transportation project that explicitly included the Streetcar extension. Removing the transit part would leave the area more car-reliant than ever.
The work over the last couple years to bring the KC Streetcar south to the University of Missouri - Kansas City campus may have had a spin-off benefit beyond just expanding the streetcar line.
The construction company in charge of rebuilding the Hawthorne Bridge for the Gold Line streetcar extension has filed a lawsuit against the city of Charlotte, arguing the city gave them inaccurate designs and won't pay them for extra work they performed.