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A new bus route launched Monday, creating the first seamless connection between Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri's streetcar system in decades.
The 107 7th Street route extension now links riders from the Kansas side of State Line Road directly to the popular Plaza streetcar station, making it easier for people to travel between the two areas of the metro.
The extended route begins at 43rd and State Line Road, travels east on 43rd Street, continues southeast on Roanoke Parkway, and heads east on 47th Street through the Country Club Plaza before reaching the Plaza streetcar stop.
The connection represents a full-circle moment for the Kansas City area's transportation network. The seamless link between the two cities mirrors how riders moved between KCK and KCMO during the region's first transportation boom in the 1900s.
While buses have operated between the cities before, this marks the first time in a century that the connection between the two cities is so seamlessly facilitated in part by a streetcar system.
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