About 6,000 Kansas Citians will receive ballots to vote on the streetcar’s proposed southern extension, said Tom Gerend, executive director of the Kansas City Streetcar Authority. Voting will begin June 20 and end by Aug. 1.
Earlier this month, the Streetcar Authority brought on a team of consultants to study the extension, which would connect its terminus at Union Station to the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Volker Campus at 51st Street. The capital cost is estimated at $227 million,…