Eric Bunch
@ericbunch.bsky.social
City Councilperson in #KCMO. Posts about transit, walkability, housing, and climate. Formerly policy wonk and co-founder @BikeWalkKC. Personal account. (he/him/his)
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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.
August 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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.
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.
Reliable and efficient transit is a vital service for our community. I have appointed Councilman Eric Bunch to the seat representing the 320,00 Kansas Citians south of the river on the KCATA Board of Commissioners to ensure a sustainable system with strong service delivery for all.
August 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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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How highways decimated Kansas City’s West Side over decades of development
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How highways decimated Kansas City’s West Side over decades of development
The city is now attempting to knit the once-thriving community back together.
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July 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
How highways decimated Kansas City’s West Side over decades of development
www.kansascity.com/news/your-kc...
www.kansascity.com/news/your-kc...
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.
January 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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.
Really proud to serve on this council with such thoughtful folks.
Formerly incarcerated people are now a protected class in Kansas City.
Kansas City Council passed an ordinance today outlawing discrimination against people with criminal backgrounds in employment, housing, and business.
Kansas City Council passed an ordinance today outlawing discrimination against people with criminal backgrounds in employment, housing, and business.
Kansas City makes it illegal to discriminate against people for having criminal records
Kansas City Council passed an ordinance adding formerly incarcerated people to the city's list of protected classes. The move means that people can't be denied employment, housing, or business for hav...
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January 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Really proud to serve on this council with such thoughtful folks.
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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?
January 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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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Elon Musk is what happens when you create a society that believes technology can achieve anything and collective action can achieve nothing
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
January 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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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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
January 15, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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
A Tesla thinking a train is maybe just a line of cars is the most Tesla thing I can think of.
this is so good. this is so so so good. i'm running around my office screaming the lev manovich quote about how software is ideology
January 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A Tesla thinking a train is maybe just a line of cars is the most Tesla thing I can think of.
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.
AOC remains one of a handful of elected democrats who understand how politics operates
AOC on the Dem strategy against the trans sports bill today, where they argued it would protect "predators," and ended up losing just 2 Trump-district Dems on it:
January 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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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"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.*
November 27, 2024 at 6:43 AM
"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.*
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.
We have to do better.
January 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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.
We have to do better.
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Thanks for posting that guide; I hadn't seen it before.
Have added it to my list of resources:
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Have added it to my list of resources:
publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/al...
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January 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Thanks for posting that guide; I hadn't seen it before.
Have added it to my list of resources:
publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/al...
Have added it to my list of resources:
publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/al...
More evening shenanigans in this house.
January 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
More evening shenanigans in this house.
Speaking of cats… our void has apparently found a new murder perch.
January 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Speaking of cats… our void has apparently found a new murder perch.
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Traffic has decreased.
273,000 fewer vehicles entered Manhattan below 60 Street from Monday to Friday last week.
273,000 fewer vehicles entered Manhattan below 60 Street from Monday to Friday last week.
January 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Traffic has decreased.
273,000 fewer vehicles entered Manhattan below 60 Street from Monday to Friday last week.
273,000 fewer vehicles entered Manhattan below 60 Street from Monday to Friday last week.
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.
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.
In my mind, that says many good things about you and far fewer about them. We like to pretend KCMO desires density and pedestrian access and then do absolutely nothing for pedestrians during snowfall events. Either we are a pedestrian friendly city or we are not.
January 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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.
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.
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.
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
January 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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.
Stopping to say hi to all the cats in windows is part of our kids’ daily routine on the walk to school.
By riding a bike primarily for transportation, I know which houses in nearby neighborhoods have cats that like to lay in the windows, which yards have the most squirrels, and which people like to wave and say hello the most.
Driving everywhere disconnects us from the real, physical world
I often visit with local oak and beech and maple trees. I also notice the birds and bugs and squirrels and deer who come by
Most humans who drive everywhere miss out on this world, shifting among mainly private interiors
I often visit with local oak and beech and maple trees. I also notice the birds and bugs and squirrels and deer who come by
Most humans who drive everywhere miss out on this world, shifting among mainly private interiors
January 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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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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
January 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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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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...
"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...
January 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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...
"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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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.
January 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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.
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.
Isn’t there something the city can do besides beg? Every winter we get proof that begging doesn’t help. Let’s start contracting out the clearing of these sidewalks after 24 hours, charged back to the business owners at a rate where we make some profit.
January 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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.
Folks, please, if you’re gonna clear your parking lot, for the love of god, clear the snow off your sidewalks too.
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
January 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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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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
January 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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