Kansas City isn’t used to the many thousands of extra car, bus and streetcar riders it will see during the World Cup.
But where tourists and residents might see backed-up traffic and delayed buses during the World Cup, transportation planners see a once-in-a-lifetime research opportunity.
Over the next few weeks, the region’s transportation system will face a stress test of thousands of extra cars on the highway, passengers on buses and streetcars, bikes on trails and pedestrians wandering the streets downtown…