Area drivers are still seeing Wild West World touted by six brown traffic signs that cost the state about $18,000. "Right now, the thought is we’re going to leave them up," Lee Holmes, state traffic signing engineer, told The Eagle editorial board, adding hopefully that the bankrupt theme park could be sold and reopened. The Kansas Department of Transportation budgeted money for the signs based on state travel and tourism officials’ approval, he said. Asked about other instances of obsolete KDOT signage, he recalled the Kansas International Museum debacle in Topeka. "The intention is to not have that happen," he said.
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Great now we have another waste of our tax dollars. If a private firm wants to pay for signs to be put up by the state that is fine. It is not fine for our tax dollars to be wasted like this.
This should be looked into. Questions should be asked and answers should be supplied.
To Sotheysaid.
Do you have anything positive to say about anything, or do you spend ALL your time COMPLAINING??
May I suggest large burlap bags covering the signs.
I have never seen nor heard of a venture of this scale that closed so quickly and was so miserably managed, and apparently neither have a lot of others.
I see nothing positive to say about anything relating to Wild West World.
Interested - I am just tired of paying more in taxes, water, gas, groceries etc.
I do like to be more positive. You make a good point. I have tend
Nothing in Wichita surprises me. This city is absolutely disgusting. Have you noticed the amount of homeless animals wandering the street is immense? The ones that hit by cars stay on the roads for days rotting and rotting.
I come from the southwest and we don’t have these issues of animals lying dead on the roads everywhere and the amount of homeless animals
The homelessness of animals (irresponsible Wichita humans) is a sign of how dysfunctional Wichita truly is. So this guy closing Wild West World after two months makes absolutely no sense but Wichita makes no sense either.
Exactly what fund did these sign expenditures come from?
We do have legitimate Convention and Tourism interests in this state.
There are car rental fees or “bed fees” on hotels or other taxes and fees that the state, or other jurisdictions, earmark for tourism.
I don’t think these signs were paid for out of “general revenues” but I am sure someone with more time on their hands will look into it for us!
Shawn, you’ll soon see that what Wichitans really care about more than anything else is their checkbooks.
If it costs money to get animals off the streets…no thanks! If it costs money to recycle…no thanks!
Doing the right thing is always outweighed by “How much will I have to pay for it?”
Here they are complaining about how much those signs cost. The state paid $18,000…there are 2.5 million people in the state, probably 1.5 million taxpayers or so.
Note, too, that this Eagle blog, consistent with the Eagle’s headlines and stories, made a point of mentioning the cost of those now-useless signs, which feeds the local miserly beast.
Do the math. They are quibbling over signs that cost about 1 cent per taxpayer.—–
thats 18,000 for signs times a thousand other simaliar state spending expentiures then its a good chunk of your taxes dollars
How much is 1,000 pennies?
Oh yeah…
$10
We all ought to be a lot more concerned about how much this worthless war is costing us…the Iraqi parliament goes on vacation next week–according to Bob Schieffer of CBS News, that will cost us $200,000 a MINUTE.
Nice spin, but you know darn good and well that is not the point. We are not talking about a penny, we are talking about $18,000. That is more than a lot of people make in a year.
1,000 pennies * 1.5 million taxpayers = 10.5 million dollars.
Given all the tax breaks the state hands out to businesses, and coupled with LOCAL tax breaks and sweetheart financing arrangements, I imagine $18,000 is just a drop in the bucket in the great Kansas business give away program.
People? We dont need no stinkin’ people. Kansas wants BIDNESS, not people. And a $24 million business cant pay for its own signs? Just like the OTHER private businesses that DONT suck the government teat?
So much for that culture of “personal responsibility”. I love when chambers and business orgs HATE taxes, but LOVE subsidies for themselves. heheheh.
Dontcha love it? When the money goes to humans, it’s bad because it’s welfare. When the money goes to businesses, it’s good because it’s economic development.
Got it!
Didthemath,My point is that $18,000 in state expenses is ridiculous and nothing to get aggravated about. Why is there even a blog about it? It would seem more appropriate to have a blog about real expenses–Why do you care what the state spends if all it costs you is $10, or more yet 1 cent??!? At that rate they can do *almost* anything they want with it, IMO.
You are illustrating my earlier point about tightwad Wichitans.
Delsol, I agree with you 100 percent! When it comes to Wichitans paying for a public service NO THANKS! Then they cry about how come there are no pot holes being fixed or dead animals being removed. They are NOT going to be fixed or removed with the wave of a wand! It costs money! Of course everyone has an opinion on how public funds should be spent! “I don’t want my taxes to be spent this way or that way!” Yet they all want the services. And they wonder why we lose our young people to cities like Dallas, San Fransico, New York, even Kansas City! Go figure!!!
I think Kansas’ burlap makes sense; or perhaps some other sort of cover until we know whayt will happen.
It is normal for highway signs to help motorists find the correct access for whereever they are going. This is no different.