Perhaps I'm tempting fate, but I'm only down a few blinky lights locking this bike to random poles for years. Granted, it looks more like a beater than it is.

That chain lock is heavy but it does the job.

I suspect it'll be very bad and I'll probably still love it.

Weather is definitely a little more volatile there! I find myself hauling the bike on transit from time to time, if the weather isn't cooperating or if I have to go more than a couple of miles. I guess density is key, as always!

I'm petty enough that I would organize a rotating cast of people to park there just to assert their right to do so. :)

I don't fully understand this. I've cycled in a lot of cities, and while a good rack can be hard to find, there is always a sign or parking meter that does the trick. Maybe I don't have enough experience in places with aggressive theft, where they'll damage these things to steal a bike?

What's the problem with having your bike with you all day? Just chain it up wherever you are! I love having it all day, but occasionally forget it when the last stop I make is one I usually walk home from.

Girma doesn't even crack the top 100?

Those are reserved for muttering at passing traffic

We gotta keep our generation from turning into the old NIMBYs were replacing, lest the madness continue.

Gladstone's downtown could just as much go on the fake list, as it is all new dev? It would be near the bottom, but probably tops Olathe.

I'll admit to being ignorant about Bonner.

There's just not enough to it. Promising to see some new development happening in the area that could build a residential base for a proper downtown.

I ding Mission because it isn't really cohesive, since it is just stretched along Johnson Drive.

Agree re: Lenexa. And the nerve to call it "City Center"

Anyone that was aggressive about adopting the latest and greatest mid-century lived to regret it. See also KCMO and freeways, sports complexes, and fringe airports.

Thank you for sharing!

I always wondered why such a historically relevant city had pretty much nothing left of a proper downtown. This is sad. :/

I just mean this to reference their New Urbanism faux-urban scale. I don't mean to suggest they function as acutal downtowns, but are made to appeal to that experience.

That was built on proper urban bones, an intact grid, and some surviving density. If this were a serious vision, they wouldn't have built "City Center" outside of the 435 loop.

I admire but don't share your optimism. And worse, I worry we damage our system attempting to accommodate these places.

I don't see outer Shawnee Mission Parkway meaningfully densifying in our lifetime.

They may not "need" downtown KC, but it is hard to thrive as a region without a center. We'd be a lot richer if we didn't require everyone to have a car, but we build with that expectation.

You're talking the entire length of the KC Streetcar through ultra-low density just to string your nodes together. That's a pretty tall operational challenge even if you're just running buses.

1. Park Place
2. Zona Rosa
3. New Longview
4. Lenexa City Center
5. Prairiefire
6. Mission Farms (too small to count)
999. Legends