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No Kings and Window Washing Drones · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: We're going to have a great guest tomorrow, and Peyton's
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Speaker 1: with me. I should say hi to you. I didn't
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Speaker 1: even say hello, Hi, Peyton.
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Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: How are you today.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty good. There there's a road closed out
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Speaker 2: front of our building here, yes, there is, said a
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Speaker 2: little interesting getting in and out.
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Speaker 1: But I was able to creep around it. I said,
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Speaker 1: I'm getting you sell this road construction.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, City. You got out and moved the sign
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Speaker 2: and said I'm gonna drive on the here anyway.
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Speaker 3: No, I obey.
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Speaker 1: But when I was coming, I come up six point
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Speaker 1: eighty and boy, there was something going on on the
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Speaker 1: Dodge Expressway this morning, and I'm glad I took a
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Speaker 1: turn and went down Dodge Street. Because the traffic is bad,
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Speaker 1: and the traffic is bad downtown. We could talk about
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Speaker 1: that too, But for our listeners, this is your chance
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Speaker 1: to speak up and sound off. So if you want
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Speaker 1: to send us an email today, send it to comment
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Speaker 1: at kfab dot com, or you can call us at
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Speaker 1: four O two five five eight eleven ten and we'll
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Speaker 1: take your call. But I did tell you about downtown too,
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Speaker 1: you know. I was downtown every day for twelve years
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Speaker 1: and then a lot before that. For four years on
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Speaker 1: the city council, so sixteen years, I spent a lot
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Speaker 1: of time downtown. And I'll admit, just like everybody else,
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Speaker 1: it's pretty darn confusing down there. There's so much construction,
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Speaker 1: and as we said yesterday, replacing these gas and waterlines,
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Speaker 1: you literally have to tear up the streets. So there's
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Speaker 1: big holes, and there's barriers, and there's cones, and there's signs,
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Speaker 1: and it is very confusing. And even Jeene stothert that
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Speaker 1: went downtown every day for twelve years. I said this before,
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Speaker 1: but I was meeting a friend downtown a couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks ago and I ended up in Iowa just because
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Speaker 1: I was turning here and turning here and turning here,
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I'm thinking, holy cow, I'm
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Speaker 1: not in Omaha anymore.
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Speaker 3: So I understand what people are saying.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing more frustrating than when you are trying to
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Speaker 1: get someplace and get someplace place quickly and there's problems parking.
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Speaker 1: And I do understand what's going on with the businesses
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Speaker 1: down there, And if any of the business owners are listening,
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Speaker 1: you know, I welcome them to call in let us
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Speaker 1: know what it's like, how they're feeling.
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Speaker 3: I mean when you.
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Speaker 1: Think that there's for instance, you know barbershops are beauty
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Speaker 1: salons along the way and they're shutting their water off,
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Speaker 1: I mean, what can they do? And so hopefully we'll
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Speaker 1: get a lot more information that we could share with
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Speaker 1: people to to let them know what the city is
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Speaker 1: doing and what is being done to move this project
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Speaker 1: on as quickly as we possibly can. I know it
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Speaker 1: is soon that the tracks are going to start being
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Speaker 1: laid and the rails. You could see them on Farnham
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Speaker 1: Street just west of Eleventh Street now and they have
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Speaker 1: been working on welding those big sections together. Those rails
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Speaker 1: were actually purchased quite a while ago when I was mayor,
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Speaker 1: because we got a good price on them to purchase
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Speaker 1: them at that time because as we know the price
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Speaker 1: of steel is going up and so those were bought
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Speaker 1: quite a while ago. But those are going to start
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Speaker 1: going in sometime soon to start with a capital loop
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Speaker 1: and that's not going to take as long as all
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Speaker 1: this infrastructure work. So I know it's a lot going
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Speaker 1: on downtown, but it's and it's a lot to deal with,
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Speaker 1: and so anybody listening as far as living down there,
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Speaker 1: businesses down there. We sure welcome your calls and your
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Speaker 1: comments about downtown Omaha, because it is it's it's construction,
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Speaker 1: it's very very inconvenient for people. It will get better
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Speaker 1: and I and I guarantee you it'll be worth it
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Speaker 1: what everything is done. But the last thing I want
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Speaker 1: is the businesses to have hardships and for businesses not
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Speaker 1: to remain open. And that's a big concern of everybody.
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Speaker 2: We have a lot to get into. We have some
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Speaker 2: really good guests coming this week, like you mentioned already, dude,
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Speaker 2: So today is a really good opportunity for anyone listening
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Speaker 2: to ask a question that you have. Let's hear it today.
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Speaker 2: The first one I got is from Jeff. Jeff, You're
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Speaker 2: on news radio eleven ten KFAB with Gene Stouter.
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Speaker 4: Hey, Hey, I called in. I'm not I won't get
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Speaker 4: in the streetcar stuff, but on the bike lane stuff.
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Speaker 4: Nothing would make me happier than to drive down one
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Speaker 4: hundred and eighth Street or go downtown and seeing see
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Speaker 4: like the bike lanes full of bicyclists, you know, commuting
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Speaker 4: back and forth for work or recreation or anything like that.
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Speaker 4: But it's such a pain point for me, and I
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Speaker 4: think anybody that I've ever talked to that when I
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Speaker 4: drive by any of these bike lanes, they're always empty
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Speaker 4: and they choke off the street. So what would have
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Speaker 4: to happen to undo this bike lane initiative that has
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Speaker 4: to me just been an epic failure.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's a really good question, and I will
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Speaker 1: tell you this, and I understand what you're saying, and
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Speaker 1: I agree. If you recall when we did that pilot
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Speaker 1: down Harney Street, and it was about an eighteen month
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Speaker 1: pilot pilot for a protected bike lane down Harney Street,
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Speaker 1: and remember we put cones up because we weren't going
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Speaker 1: to put it anything in the road to really protect it.
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Speaker 1: I drive down Harney or I drove down Harney every
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Speaker 1: single day because that's where the parking garage was under
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Speaker 1: City Hall, and I felt the same thing, But it
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Speaker 1: depended on the time of day that I was driving
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Speaker 1: down Harney, because there are bikers that drive or ride
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Speaker 1: their bikes on it in early in the morning when
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Speaker 1: it's time to go to work, and there's bikers on it,
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Speaker 1: in the afternoon when it's time to go home, and
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Speaker 1: there's bicyclers on it on the weekends and when there's
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Speaker 1: good weather. Now Omaha in particular, we have bad weather
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Speaker 1: in the winter, and you don't see a lot of
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Speaker 1: people riding their bikes on those bike lanes in the
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Speaker 1: winter time. And I thought, after that pilot was done,
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Speaker 1: we had enough information that we needed on what we
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Speaker 1: needed to do as far as putting protected bike lanes,
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Speaker 1: and that I wanted to take the cones up and
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Speaker 1: stop that pilot right then.
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Speaker 3: And I got a lot of pushback from.
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Speaker 1: The bicycle community because they were saying, this is something
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Speaker 1: that is needed. So as mayor, what I wanted to
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Speaker 1: do is study where the best bike lanes would be
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Speaker 1: to be put in, especially to get in and around
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Speaker 1: and out of midtown and downtown, how we would pay for.
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Speaker 3: It, what they would look like.
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Speaker 1: But you always have to look at every way that
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Speaker 1: people commute, and that's just it. And you know right
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Speaker 1: now in Omaha at least eighty percent of the people
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Speaker 1: commute by car. So my first priority was to take
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Speaker 1: care of the roads. And we did, you know, had
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Speaker 1: a two hundred million dollar bond issue passed in May
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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. It was reauthorized by a vote of
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Speaker 1: the people in twenty twenty four that was number one.
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Speaker 1: But we also have to look at pedestrian traffic, We
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Speaker 1: have to look at bicycle traffic, We have to look
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Speaker 1: at all the ways people want to commute, and that's
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Speaker 1: just what a big and growing city does. The bike
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Speaker 1: lane that we are going to put in, a permanent
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Speaker 1: protected bike lane on Harney Street, the majority of it
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Speaker 1: is paid for by philanthropy, by private money, and so
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Speaker 1: that was all always something that was on my mind
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Speaker 1: how it would be paid for. But if you look
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Speaker 1: at other cities that actually have protected bike lanes, and
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Speaker 1: that means it's a permanent protection. Whether it's something concrete
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Speaker 1: or I don't know, flower pods or something around there
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Speaker 1: that will protect the bicyclers. That's important too. One of
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Speaker 1: the things I will tell you that we learned on
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Speaker 1: the pilot on Harney Street is which side of the
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Speaker 1: street to put that bike lane on. Because the side
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Speaker 1: of the street that we had it on, which was
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Speaker 1: the south side, stayed shaded most of the day, and
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Speaker 1: so in the winter it was icy and the snow
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Speaker 1: didn't melt, and we had a heck of a time
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Speaker 1: plowing that to keep it clear for those who wanted
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Speaker 1: to ride their bikes, So it's going to be moved
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Speaker 1: to the north side because there was more sun on
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Speaker 1: the north side.
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Speaker 3: So I understand what you're saying.
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Speaker 1: A lot of times when I look at those bike lanes,
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Speaker 1: I don't see a lot of people and a lot
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Speaker 1: of bicyclers on it.
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Speaker 3: But it's just like the bus system.
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Speaker 1: I hear that too, that I look at the buses
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Speaker 1: and I don't see a lot of people on it.
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Speaker 1: But indeed, there are millions of people that ride our
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Speaker 1: buses in Omaha every year.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we get those.
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Speaker 1: Numbers from Metro Transit so frustrating, but there are people
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Speaker 1: that use them.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 2: What I was thinking about, too, is there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of increased scooter usage downtown as well. Limescooters. Yes, and
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Speaker 2: everyone has seen a video or seen something go wrong
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Speaker 2: where someone is riding one of those pretty fast scooters
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Speaker 2: on a sidewalk and that's a collision waiting to happen,
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Speaker 2: because the sidewalks aren't designed for you to be ripping
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Speaker 2: it that fast.
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Speaker 1: Those scooters are not supposed to be on the sidewalks.
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Speaker 1: Those scooters are supposed to move with the traffic in
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Speaker 1: the street exactly. And I will tell you when we
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Speaker 1: first started piloting the scooters, it was a nightmare to me.
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Speaker 1: I did not like those scooters at all. And the
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Speaker 1: very first day, one of our police officers sent me
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Speaker 1: a picture of a woman it was right up at
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Speaker 1: Midtown who had fallen and she had a compound fracture
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Speaker 1: of her tibia and he took a picture of her
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Speaker 1: bone stick it out or shin and I'm like, oh.
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Speaker 3: No, this is what we're gonna be dealing with.
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Speaker 1: And at first it was so difficult. I saw women
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Speaker 1: on it with high heels.
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Speaker 2: I saw divas right there.
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Speaker 3: Two people at a time on these scooters.
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Speaker 1: I remember going out and talking to the mayor of
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Speaker 1: San Diego.
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Speaker 3: I was out there. It was for the christening of the.
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Speaker 1: Uss Omaha, but I talked to the mayor in San
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Speaker 1: Diego and he goes, I hate these scooters because he
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Speaker 1: said people leave them in the parks, and they throw
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Speaker 1: them in the water, and they throw them in the lakes,
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Speaker 1: and they throw them all over the place. So we
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Speaker 1: had a lot that we had to learn about using
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Speaker 1: these scooters. That we could get a company that would
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Speaker 1: clean them up and make sure that they were put
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Speaker 1: back where they should be put back. And of course,
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Speaker 1: you know, we don't keep them in Omaha all winter
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Speaker 1: because nobody's going to be really riding those all winter,
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Speaker 1: So there's a time that they take them out, in
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Speaker 1: the time that they bring them back.
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Speaker 3: But again, people love him.
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Speaker 2: Have you ever taken one of them out for a
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Speaker 2: joy ride?
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Speaker 3: Never? No, nor well.
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Speaker 2: I you're telling me you've never hopped on one of
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Speaker 2: those things.
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Speaker 3: I stood on one for a picture one time. I
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Speaker 3: will never. No, I'm not going to do that.
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Speaker 1: I thought, you know, it was pushing it for me
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Speaker 1: to do the Mayor's Bike Ride with a mayor of
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Speaker 1: Council Bluff and we did a bike ride around downtown
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Speaker 1: and I thought, okay, you're pushing me with that.
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to get on a scooter.
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Speaker 1: But you know, people, the people that like them, love them,
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Speaker 1: and they're really useful with things like the College World
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Speaker 1: series going on. I mean, people love them. There's a
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Speaker 1: lot of young people that come. They like scooting around
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Speaker 1: town on those scooters. And right now we really haven't
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Speaker 1: had with the company we have and the rules and
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Speaker 1: the process we have in place, who could get on
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Speaker 1: that scooter. You got to show your driver's license, et cetera.
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Speaker 1: Things have really calmed down quite a bit. But at
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Speaker 1: first I thought it was a nightmare of what was
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Speaker 1: going to happen with those scooters.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm telling you, have you and your husband on
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Speaker 2: a weekend night, you go downtown, you ride the ride
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Speaker 2: the scooter, and you hit up a Coldstone ice cream.
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Speaker 2: That's a great date.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna happen. No, my husband rides his bike
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Speaker 1: all the time. Kevin Ken's Kevin's out there riding his bike.
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Speaker 1: I don't even do that.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 1: I exercise a lot and I work out twice a week.
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Speaker 1: But you're not going to catch me on that scooter,
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Speaker 1: that's for sure.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna shift to the talkback Mike. Here. This is
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Speaker 2: talkback Mike. You can find this on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 2: Tho's a little microphone. You can go ahead and send
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Speaker 2: us a message.
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Speaker 7: And I got an idea for all the unlicensed cars
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Speaker 7: you see around town, Why don't we have a bounty.
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Speaker 7: So if a citizen sees somebody who's car's on license,
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Speaker 7: he gets like ten bucks for turning them in. That way,
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Speaker 7: there's motivation to report these people that aren't paying their
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Speaker 7: road taxes and they could just add ten bucks to
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Speaker 7: the fee that the guy has to pay her registers
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Speaker 7: car and we can you handle it?
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Speaker 1: Well, you know you thanks for the call. I appreciate it,
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Speaker 1: and you know, I mean you certainly can still do that.
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Speaker 1: I mean you could call in the Mayor's hotline and
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Speaker 1: you could say, I saw here's a license plate that
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Speaker 1: I saw that was unlicensed. But you know, we used
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Speaker 1: to even have police officers that would patrol, say apartment
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Speaker 1: building parking lots looking for unlicensed or expired licenses on cars.
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Speaker 1: They used to do that.
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Speaker 3: All the time.
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Speaker 1: It came to, you know, when we had this the
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Speaker 1: issue of the low number of people applying for police
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Speaker 1: officers and having you know a real challenge with getting
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Speaker 1: people to apply and getting our numbers back up to
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Speaker 1: our authorized strength.
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Speaker 3: The last thing that we wanted to.
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Speaker 1: Really do is take a large group of police officers
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Speaker 1: and having patrol parking lots looking for expired our cars
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Speaker 1: that were unlicensed. So you know, there is a late
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Speaker 1: fee that we started charging. Golly, I can't even remember
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Speaker 1: when that was. I believe it was when I was
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Speaker 1: on city council, so it was quite a while ago
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Speaker 1: that if somebody applies for their license plate late, they
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Speaker 1: get charged for it. There's a fine, and we thought
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Speaker 1: that once we had a fine, that it would motivate
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Speaker 1: people to get their cars every year relicnsed on time.
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Speaker 3: And you know, it didn't do anything.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we still have the same amount of fines
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Speaker 1: that we collect every year for late fee for expired licenses, so,
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Speaker 1: you know, and then then we see people that live
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Speaker 1: here from others that actually live in other states.
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Speaker 3: Too, So that is an issue.
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Speaker 1: You know, you can certainly call the hotline and say,
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Speaker 1: you know, here's a license plate number that's expired.
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Speaker 3: But at the same time, it to me it was.
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Speaker 1: Not a useful use of our police officers to patrol
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Speaker 1: as far as that goes, so anyway, but it is
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Speaker 1: an issue. And I know what you're saying, that would
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Speaker 1: be pretty fun though, A bounty bounty hunters.
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Speaker 2: A little bounty hunter. I'm telling you, if if you
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Speaker 2: put a few people out, a few a little bit
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Speaker 2: of a word out, there'd be people out there that
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Speaker 2: would cut down those numbers of unregistered cars.
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Speaker 3: But do they.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you always stop and have to think. You know,
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Speaker 1: we have traffic signals all over Omaha, do people always
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Speaker 1: abide by them?
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Speaker 2: It's I always do every single time, do.
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Speaker 1: You know I Well, I'm not even going to say
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Speaker 1: how old I am, but everybody knows how old I am.
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Speaker 1: I've been around a while, Peyton, I could be your grandma.
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Speaker 1: But I don't want to say that ever again. But
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Speaker 1: you know, I have never a knock on wood. Now
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Speaker 1: that cops are going to be looking for me because
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Speaker 1: they'd knock on wood. I have never had a speeding
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Speaker 1: ticket in my life. Really, I've never had a speeding ticket.
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Speaker 1: I've never been in an accident in my entire life.
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Speaker 2: That's impressive.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm telling you I follow those rules of the road.
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Speaker 1: But what my point was, we have speed limits, we
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Speaker 1: have traffic signals. People just I mean, and they're going
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Speaker 1: to get fined if they don't abide by them.
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Speaker 3: And people don't do it. I mean, people take a chance.
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Speaker 1: So I think a lot of times I'll take a
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Speaker 1: chance with not getting their cars licensed on time or
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Speaker 1: having an expired license.
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Speaker 3: But you know, sometimes you forget.
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Speaker 1: I mean a Douglas County treasure who used to be
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Speaker 1: John Ewing. They used to send out they would send
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Speaker 1: notices and people a lot of times people would say
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Speaker 1: I didn't get a notice or something, so somebody always
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Speaker 1: had an excuse. Yeah, you know, but you know, I know,
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Speaker 1: my husband just just recently said, oops, I got to
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Speaker 1: get my car done.
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Speaker 3: I got to get my license done. Almost forgot.
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Speaker 1: So people do forget, but it's something that you just
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Speaker 1: need to you need to get done.
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Speaker 2: People are sending me all their horror stories on scooters,
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Speaker 2: but we're not going to talk about that anymore. Let's
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Speaker 2: go to Chuck here on the phone lines. So who
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Speaker 2: has a little bit about transportation? Chuck, You're on news
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Speaker 2: radio eleven ten KFAB with Jean Stouthart.
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Speaker 3: Hello, good morning.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, hey, I hear about people, you know, kind of
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Speaker 5: criticizing bicycles and mass trans and I think, you know
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Speaker 5: what a wonderful city we could have. If you live
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Speaker 5: downtown and you don't need a car. Cars you're a
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Speaker 5: pain in the neck. They're really expensive if you get
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Speaker 5: in car accidents. And people that ride bikes and people
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Speaker 5: that ride mass transit, you know, they pay taxes and
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Speaker 5: that money goes to roads. I mean, we paid one
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Speaker 5: hundred and seventeen million dollars for that overpass on god
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Speaker 5: Street Overpass one hundred and seventeenth Street or whatever, because
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Speaker 5: that thing is backed up every morning. When you see
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Speaker 5: people riding bikes, they are taking cars off the road.
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Speaker 5: I love people that ride their cars to go to
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Speaker 5: their health spot so they can exercise. Well, if you
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Speaker 5: ride a bike or you walk on mass transit, you
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Speaker 5: get your exercise automatically. Look at the obesity rates in
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Speaker 5: this town. To go to a pancake house out in Millard,
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Speaker 5: look at the people. They're riding their cars everywhere they go.
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Speaker 5: They're getting no exercise. If we live in a city
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Speaker 5: that wants to have no brain drain, you have to
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Speaker 5: have young people that can live without a car. And
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Speaker 5: you know you're not a novel idea. Go to New York,
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Speaker 5: go to Washington, d C. Go to Paris. They close
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Speaker 5: down a main street in Paris. It was five lanes
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Speaker 5: through Ribley. Now it's one lane for cars and buses,
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Speaker 5: four lanes for bikes. People love it. The bikes pass
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Speaker 5: up the buses, they pass up the taxicabs, and their
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Speaker 5: bicyclists are everywhere you build a road, they will come.
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Speaker 1: I agree with you, and you know that's one of
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Speaker 1: the reasons that the street car is going in. When
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Speaker 1: I keep on seeing public pulse letters and emails of
17:49
Speaker 1: people say it, it makes no sense. That is one
17:52
Speaker 1: of the main reasons we're putting a street car in
17:55
Speaker 1: downtown in midtown. And I've said this so many times before,
17:58
Speaker 1: but right now down town half is dedicated to parking.
18:03
Speaker 1: I mean, that is not a good use of space
18:05
Speaker 1: in an urban core. And if we want to attract
18:08
Speaker 1: the young talent, and if we want to prevent brain drain,
18:13
Speaker 1: and if we want to get new businesses into our downtown,
18:16
Speaker 1: we have to take care of the parking problem, and
18:19
Speaker 1: we have to provide transportation. And you know, when you say, well,
18:24
Speaker 1: how can you get young professionals to stay here after
18:27
Speaker 1: they graduate from college or come here and want to
18:30
Speaker 1: live in Omaha, you give them what they're looking for.
18:33
Speaker 1: And what are young professionals looking for. They're looking for
18:37
Speaker 1: affordable housing, they are they're looking for urban living. They're
18:40
Speaker 1: looking for entertainment, They're were looking for walkability, they're looking
18:44
Speaker 1: for public transportation. They're looking for all of those things
18:48
Speaker 1: in an urban core, in an urban setting. That's what
18:51
Speaker 1: we're doing. We're trying to address the problem with the
18:55
Speaker 1: You don't always need a car, because if you are
18:58
Speaker 1: going to live downtown. Some of these great apartments are
19:02
Speaker 1: these great places that are being rehab downtown, some beautiful places.
19:07
Speaker 1: The big challenge is where am I going to park?
19:10
Speaker 1: And let me tell you, if you are in one
19:12
Speaker 1: of the condominiums and you are paying for parking, the
19:15
Speaker 1: parking like underneath your building, for example, it's outrageous the
19:20
Speaker 1: cost for parking in an urban core. And so you
19:23
Speaker 1: are so right though. You know when we built opened
19:26
Speaker 1: up the oh my goodness, I'm blanking out. But the
19:31
Speaker 1: new big apartment complex down on tenth Street where Memoir
19:34
Speaker 1: is at the base of it. A lot of those
19:38
Speaker 1: folks that we're moving into those apartments down on tenth
19:42
Speaker 1: Street worked at the Med Center and the Brookline, and
19:47
Speaker 1: they said, we're moving here because we know that that
19:51
Speaker 1: street car is going to be here and it'll eventually
19:53
Speaker 1: go up to the Med Center and we won't have
19:56
Speaker 1: to have a car or we won't have to get
19:57
Speaker 1: our cars out. And so that's one of the main
20:00
Speaker 1: reasons that you do look at all the ways that
20:04
Speaker 1: people want to commute. If you live downtown and you
20:06
Speaker 1: wanted to go out to lunch or you wanted to
20:08
Speaker 1: go to a show or something, and you don't want
20:11
Speaker 1: to get your car out and move it around. Then
20:13
Speaker 1: you could either ride your bike, or you could walk,
20:16
Speaker 1: or you could you know, ride the street car. You
20:18
Speaker 1: need to make options available and that's what that's what
20:21
Speaker 1: people really love about urban core living, and that's what
20:25
Speaker 1: young professionals love that. We want to prevent the brain
20:28
Speaker 1: drain and people from leaving our community. So there are
20:32
Speaker 1: a lot of advantages to public transportation.
20:35
Speaker 2: Geene, this is a fun question for you. Okay, Oh boy,
20:37
Speaker 2: My eight year old son has followed your career since
20:40
Speaker 2: he was born. He's a big fan. One thing he
20:42
Speaker 2: would like to know, what is your favorite dinosaur?
20:46
Speaker 3: Oh? What a great question.
20:48
Speaker 1: Well, I wish I knew his grandson's name, but I
20:50
Speaker 1: would have to say a pterodactyl because they fly and
20:54
Speaker 1: I like that.
20:55
Speaker 3: I like to see them. And when you look.
20:56
Speaker 1: At the birds that are in the air, now you
20:58
Speaker 1: know they are just scendence of the dinosaur. So there
21:01
Speaker 1: you are, right there, So it's a pterodactyl. The thing
21:04
Speaker 1: I didn't say one of those dinosaurs on the flintstones
21:07
Speaker 1: or something.
21:08
Speaker 2: Thank you courch again.
21:10
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, you know what before we take the rest
21:13
Speaker 1: of the calls here, and I know we have plenty.
21:15
Speaker 1: One of the things I just wanted to bring up,
21:17
Speaker 1: and it's been talked about a lot lately, but is
21:19
Speaker 1: the No King's Rally protests that went across our country
21:24
Speaker 1: this weekend. It was on March twenty eighth, on Saturday,
21:28
Speaker 1: the first one, I believe within October of I think
21:31
Speaker 1: it was in October of twenty five that we had,
21:34
Speaker 1: but all fifty states took part in this this weekend.
21:39
Speaker 1: It is estimated that eight to nine million protesters were
21:44
Speaker 1: out on Saturday in record numbers, protesting against Donald Trump
21:50
Speaker 1: and his administration. And you know, I had to look
21:52
Speaker 1: at the No King's site just to see what the
21:55
Speaker 1: heck they're talking about, because I scratched my head a
21:58
Speaker 1: lot of times with protests. And Number one, of course,
22:01
Speaker 1: I feel obviously people have the right to protest. It's
22:04
Speaker 1: freedom of speech, to assemble and to gather and to
22:09
Speaker 1: let their voices be heard. But when you talk to
22:13
Speaker 1: people that are protesting, and I saw this all over
22:16
Speaker 1: the news and ask them why they are protesting, a
22:19
Speaker 1: lot of them don't know why they're there, and that's
22:21
Speaker 1: what is so perplexing to me.
22:23
Speaker 3: I know in the Examiner.
22:25
Speaker 1: I was looking at that, which is the online newspaper
22:30
Speaker 1: and comes out of Lincoln, and one seventeen year old
22:34
Speaker 1: that was there he said, I'm protesting because they don't
22:37
Speaker 1: want to get drafted. And I was just scratching my head.
22:40
Speaker 1: The draft went away and way back in nineteen seventy three,
22:45
Speaker 1: there is no draft. Another woman said in Omaha, she said,
22:50
Speaker 1: I'm just mad about everything. Well, what does that mean?
22:53
Speaker 1: So you're out there protesting against the president? And their
22:57
Speaker 1: site says, in America, we don't have kings, and we
23:01
Speaker 1: won't back down against chaos, corruption and cruelty and fight
23:05
Speaker 1: against dictatorship. No thrones, no crowns, no kings. We don't
23:09
Speaker 1: have a king in the United States, and everybody knows
23:13
Speaker 1: that it are these people saying that President Trump wasn't
23:17
Speaker 1: fairly elected? Is that what they're saying? When I see
23:20
Speaker 1: people protesting the America first logo or phrase, I think,
23:26
Speaker 1: what do they want? Do they want America last? It's
23:31
Speaker 1: very very perplexing. I know a lot of people will
23:34
Speaker 1: say a lot of these people just hate America, and
23:37
Speaker 1: I hope that is not the case. I hope that
23:40
Speaker 1: they are saying that there's certain things that they don't
23:44
Speaker 1: like that the administration are doing. But if you look,
23:48
Speaker 1: what is their solution and what is their resolution? And
23:50
Speaker 1: that's the one thing I would like to ask our
23:53
Speaker 1: listeners about. You know, are their rights being taken away?
23:57
Speaker 3: You know, what is your solution?
24:00
Speaker 1: And if you really look at the world and you
24:02
Speaker 1: look at other countries, the United States is the most
24:06
Speaker 1: democratic nation on earth. So what is it that you
24:09
Speaker 1: want to change and what is it that you hope
24:13
Speaker 1: to achieve by your protests? And I will say, if
24:16
Speaker 1: you are protesting, and I've been involved in quite a
24:18
Speaker 1: few protests, especially back in the summer of twenty twenty
24:22
Speaker 1: with George Floyd, just know why you're there, and not
24:26
Speaker 1: just say I'm here because I need a purpose and
24:30
Speaker 1: I want to be angry, and I want to be
24:32
Speaker 1: out there with the crowd because there's a crowd assembling here.
24:35
Speaker 1: I want to be part of it. But know what
24:37
Speaker 1: you're protesting, know what you're against, and then know what
24:40
Speaker 1: you're fighting for. And I think that's the important thing.
24:44
Speaker 2: A list of donors published by the US House of
24:47
Speaker 2: Representatives in October. I think that was the first or
24:50
Speaker 2: the second. No kings listed a sixteen million dollar donation
24:55
Speaker 2: by Omaha's veri Ow and Warren Buffett to the No Kings.
25:00
Speaker 2: It's very interesting. Chris Baker in the Afternoon Show yesterday
25:02
Speaker 2: went through a list of other companies and individuals that
25:06
Speaker 2: were donors as well.
25:07
Speaker 1: And you know, I said before, I know Warren Buffett.
25:10
Speaker 1: I like him a lot. He's a brilliant man. But
25:14
Speaker 1: people have different political views and they base them on
25:18
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. And I respect Warren Buffett, I respect anybody.
25:22
Speaker 1: I mean, shoot, look at me. I mean there are
25:24
Speaker 1: people that liked me as mayor. There are people that
25:26
Speaker 1: hated me. It's just the way it is when you're
25:29
Speaker 1: an elected official. I had somebody tell me one time
25:32
Speaker 1: they did not like me at all. They hated me
25:35
Speaker 1: and I and somebody, one of my staff said why,
25:37
Speaker 1: And they said, because she had a red code on.
25:39
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they a lot of times they
25:43
Speaker 1: pick these reasons they don't like you because you're not
25:47
Speaker 1: really sure why.
25:48
Speaker 3: I told you.
25:48
Speaker 1: One other person told me I had ugly hands. Okay,
25:51
Speaker 1: that's a reason to dislike me as mayor. But for
25:54
Speaker 1: whatever reason, whether it's you know the president now, you
25:57
Speaker 1: don't like his personality, you don't like the disc agency's making,
26:00
Speaker 1: you don't like the policies he's making.
26:03
Speaker 3: That's fair. That's that's really fair game.
26:05
Speaker 1: And I think, but just know what you're out there
26:08
Speaker 1: protesting about, because golly, I wish we would all go
26:11
Speaker 1: back to being patriots and really saying I love United
26:14
Speaker 1: States and I'm glad I'm a US citizen.
26:17
Speaker 2: Steve, thank you for calling eleven to ten kfab you're
26:20
Speaker 2: on with Jeene stoutht.
26:23
Speaker 6: Oh.
26:23
Speaker 8: Yeah, this is kind of a pet peeve of mine,
26:27
Speaker 8: and it involves handicapped parking and I have handicapped plates
26:33
Speaker 8: on my car, so and finding a parking space is
26:38
Speaker 8: kind of difficult at times. But then you'll have these
26:41
Speaker 8: guys that are picking up food for door dash and
26:44
Speaker 8: they park in there, so you have to keep going
26:46
Speaker 8: and by the time you get back, someone else's taking
26:48
Speaker 8: that parking space. So I wish I could go around
26:53
Speaker 8: handing out tickets, but I'm a little too old for that.
26:58
Speaker 1: And I understand what you what you mean by that,
27:01
Speaker 1: I mean we need to we need to provide parking
27:05
Speaker 1: and easy access parking and safe parking for those with disabilities.
27:09
Speaker 3: You know that the City of Omaha does have a.
27:15
Speaker 1: Board that the mayor does a point and it is
27:18
Speaker 1: Citizens with Disability And I appointed that board for twelve years,
27:22
Speaker 1: and I tried to make sure that there were people
27:26
Speaker 1: on that board that had all different types of disabilities
27:29
Speaker 1: from being handicapped, using a wheelchair, from being hard at hearing,
27:33
Speaker 1: from being you know, challenges with their site or whatever,
27:37
Speaker 1: to identify those issues that they see within the City
27:41
Speaker 1: of Omaha, so that we could take action and do
27:43
Speaker 1: something about it. But I know, especially with all of
27:46
Speaker 1: the construction and the road work going on, it could
27:49
Speaker 1: make it particularly difficult for those citizens with disabilities. And
27:54
Speaker 1: if there is a you know, we are required by
27:58
Speaker 1: law to provide parking and parking for people with disabilities,
28:02
Speaker 1: so in safe parking. So for those that are listening
28:05
Speaker 1: and those that are finding it to be an extreme
28:07
Speaker 1: problem right now, are a problem. Not extreme problem, but
28:10
Speaker 1: a problem. Mike, right now again I bring this up,
28:13
Speaker 1: but call the Mayor's hotline. It's four four four five
28:16
Speaker 1: five five five and report an area that you are
28:19
Speaker 1: struggling with or you're finding is very difficult because those
28:22
Speaker 1: are the things that the city is required by law
28:25
Speaker 1: to provide.
28:29
Speaker 2: Very good Steve, thank you for the phone call here, Peyton,
28:32
Speaker 2: are you awaken? Let's get this situated. We got Mike, Mike,
28:36
Speaker 2: thanks for listening on the with Jean Stouth.
28:38
Speaker 3: Hi, Mikello.
28:41
Speaker 9: Can you hear me?
28:42
Speaker 3: I can hear you?
28:43
Speaker 9: Well, okay, hey, I just call on. I'm a big
28:47
Speaker 9: support of yours. Photot for you every time I could,
28:49
Speaker 9: so thank you for serving our city.
28:51
Speaker 5: Thanks for saying that, sure, And then.
28:56
Speaker 9: In general, I kind of wanted to talk about the
28:57
Speaker 9: bicycle issue. Kind of know, some engineers in town and
29:02
Speaker 9: city engineers, traffic folks, and my adult kids are young professionals,
29:07
Speaker 9: and you're talking about the brain drain, and one of
29:09
Speaker 9: the things that they always bring up is the city's
29:12
Speaker 9: lack of progressive bike system, bike trails. All we have
29:17
Speaker 9: is north and south on the Papio. I can't even
29:19
Speaker 9: ride my bike downtown. You know, there's four blocks down
29:23
Speaker 9: there that are set aside. You know, I just wonder
29:26
Speaker 9: what the resistance is if you go to other cities
29:28
Speaker 9: and there's bike lanes everywhere, beautiful, it's fun. You can
29:31
Speaker 9: ride around Omaha. You can't do that.
29:34
Speaker 3: And you know that.
29:35
Speaker 1: I'm glad you called because a caller previous had kind
29:39
Speaker 1: of a different point of view around it, saying why
29:41
Speaker 1: are you putting in these bike lanes because I never
29:43
Speaker 1: see anybody in it. But you know, the City of
29:47
Speaker 1: Omaha right now, at least you know, under my administration
29:51
Speaker 1: was really focused on doing a study and seeing and
29:55
Speaker 1: we already did this study. I'm not you know, people
29:57
Speaker 1: hate when you say, look, we're going to do a study.
29:59
Speaker 3: They want to act.
30:00
Speaker 1: We already did this study on where the best and
30:03
Speaker 1: most used bike lane should be in Omaha and then
30:07
Speaker 1: finding a way to do it and fund it. And
30:09
Speaker 1: I wanted them protected. I just did not want, you know,
30:12
Speaker 1: paint on the street to say here's your bike lane,
30:15
Speaker 1: and when you have to look at where people are parking.
30:17
Speaker 3: On the street.
30:18
Speaker 1: If you're going to reduce the amount of parking, which
30:21
Speaker 1: is at a premium in the urban core, if you
30:23
Speaker 1: put bike lanes in, I know the bicyclers, they don't
30:27
Speaker 1: feel safe unless it's a truly protected bike lane. So
30:32
Speaker 1: that's what we're looking at, and that's what we are
30:35
Speaker 1: doing as far as moving forward with that. But we
30:39
Speaker 1: do have the Parks Department has a great map that
30:43
Speaker 1: they put out that you could get from the City
30:46
Speaker 1: of Omaha Parks Department, and it does have all the
30:49
Speaker 1: trails that we have in Omaha. We do have a
30:52
Speaker 1: lot more trails that are being connected that weren't connected before.
30:57
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm gonna we should talk a little
31:00
Speaker 1: bit more about that on a future show or in
31:03
Speaker 1: the near future about what is being done now as
31:06
Speaker 1: far as the plan for connecting these bike trails, because
31:09
Speaker 1: you could literally go from Omaha now down to Bellevue
31:13
Speaker 1: on a bike and so, and there are a lot
31:16
Speaker 1: of people that are heavid bicyclers. You know, our US
31:20
Speaker 1: Senator Pete Ricketts rides a bike a lot and rides
31:23
Speaker 1: the distance, rides a bike a lot. So a lot
31:26
Speaker 1: of people do. And for those who see bike lanes
31:30
Speaker 1: and say I never see anybody on them, there are
31:32
Speaker 1: people that depend on that and that's their way of life.
31:36
Speaker 1: And they want it for exercise, they want it for health,
31:38
Speaker 1: they want it for convenience. But that's how they choose
31:42
Speaker 1: to travel. And there are some in Omaha, despite the
31:45
Speaker 1: weather and it could be pretty cold and snowy here
31:47
Speaker 1: that ride their bikes all year round too. And I
31:50
Speaker 1: think that's really really important that we again look at
31:53
Speaker 1: al ways that people commute and that we address those.
31:56
Speaker 1: But number one is always going to be by automobile.
31:59
Speaker 1: It just is in this climate, in this in this
32:02
Speaker 1: environment that we have here in Omaha, Nebraska, people are
32:04
Speaker 1: going to travel by car.
32:06
Speaker 2: This is the Kfab comment line, your host of the show,
32:08
Speaker 2: Jean Stauther. Peter says, I'm against expensive will sorry, I'm
32:14
Speaker 2: against expensive buildings with dirty windows. So we better have
32:18
Speaker 2: an action plan for that when we come back from break.
32:20
Speaker 1: What about these dirty windows, Hair, Yes, a caller came in.
32:24
Speaker 2: Peter said, I better see a drone window washer. We
32:29
Speaker 2: have plenty of thirty thousand dollars tables to build them.
32:31
Speaker 3: Hmm. That's might not be a bad idea. You know what.
32:35
Speaker 1: I agree with you, though, I hate dirty windows. And
32:37
Speaker 1: let me tell you, I'm sitting in the Gary Settlemeyer
32:39
Speaker 1: studio right now and there's a huge window in here
32:41
Speaker 1: out to the hallway mm hmm, and I'm looking at
32:44
Speaker 1: it and it probably hasn't been washed in ten years.
32:47
Speaker 1: And I might have to bring my windex in one
32:49
Speaker 1: day because it was one of my pet peeves too.
32:52
Speaker 1: So but you know what, I will tell you the
32:54
Speaker 1: Mayor's office, sitting at my desk when I was mayor.
32:57
Speaker 1: I looked right out across the street, across Farnham and
33:00
Speaker 1: I could see the Woodman tower. And when those window
33:03
Speaker 1: rushers were rushing those windows, Holy cow. I mean I
33:06
Speaker 1: could hardly stand to look at it. I mean they
33:09
Speaker 1: are up there, fifty stories rushing windows.
33:12
Speaker 3: I don't know.
33:12
Speaker 2: A drone might be a good idea, Yeah, that might not. Peter,
33:15
Speaker 2: do you think you can help us align the budget
33:17
Speaker 2: so we can get these get.
33:18
Speaker 3: The drones rush?
33:19
Speaker 6: Yeah?
33:19
Speaker 1: Well no, the private businesses, see what would pay for that?
33:23
Speaker 1: So yeah, let's get them.
33:24
Speaker 2: Maybe we can put it on the taxpayers.
33:26
Speaker 5: Mike.
33:26
Speaker 2: Speaking of taxes, here we go. You're on the KFAB
33:29
Speaker 2: comment line with your host of the show, Jean Stauth.
33:33
Speaker 3: Good morning, Hi.
33:33
Speaker 9: Gene, Hi, hey Jane.
33:37
Speaker 4: I would have voted for you, but I'm in.
33:38
Speaker 9: Alcorn, so that didn't do any good, did it?
33:41
Speaker 8: Well?
33:41
Speaker 1: Well, part of Elcorn is actually Omaha now, but you're
33:45
Speaker 1: in that part.
33:45
Speaker 3: That isn't right right?
33:47
Speaker 5: Correct?
33:49
Speaker 9: Yeah?
33:49
Speaker 4: My comment, Gene is what is Nebraska or pilling which
33:54
Speaker 4: he promised to do, do anything about property taxes? I mean,
33:58
Speaker 4: my property taxes are a thousand dollars a month in Elkhorn.
34:04
Speaker 1: Well, let me let me tell you that what the
34:05
Speaker 1: governor is working on in the state budget is working
34:09
Speaker 1: on are are like property tax incentives. They're looking at
34:14
Speaker 1: property tax reduction by giving tax credits. But what is
34:18
Speaker 1: really important to remember is property taxes are levied locally,
34:22
Speaker 1: So it's your local taxing authorities that levy your property taxes.
34:29
Speaker 1: The schools, your public school and your area are sixty
34:33
Speaker 1: two an average is sixty two percent of your total
34:37
Speaker 1: property tax bill. They set the levee. The City of Omaha,
34:41
Speaker 1: for example, is twenty two percent for those who live
34:43
Speaker 1: in Omaha. Douglas County is about twelve and a half percent.
34:47
Speaker 1: And then there's Metro Transit, there's Metro Community College, there's
34:51
Speaker 1: the NRDS. They all levy taxes. So all of that
34:56
Speaker 1: is done locally. Now, I mean, I've dealt with it lot,
35:00
Speaker 1: and I know the City of Omaha's levee right now.
35:03
Speaker 1: It's forty three point nine to nine cents per one
35:06
Speaker 1: hundred dollars valuation. So I mean that's what the City
35:09
Speaker 1: of Omaha's is now. I lowered that levee five times
35:15
Speaker 1: when I was mayor. Five different times I lowered that levee.
35:18
Speaker 1: But what I just said is makes the difference. Is
35:22
Speaker 1: I lowered the levee of twenty two percent of your
35:25
Speaker 1: total property tax bill. So did you see a big
35:29
Speaker 1: difference in what you were paying? You didn't, But I
35:31
Speaker 1: will tell you if I would raise it five times,
35:34
Speaker 1: I would hear a lot back.
35:36
Speaker 3: So we were trying to do.
35:37
Speaker 1: What we can do with the City of Omaha is
35:39
Speaker 1: to manage the budget, which the mayor does the budget.
35:42
Speaker 1: I did twelve budgets to manage the budget so that
35:46
Speaker 1: you can deal with inflation, deal with increased cost deal
35:50
Speaker 1: with increased salaries, which most employees at the City of
35:53
Speaker 1: Omaha are under contract, so you are obligated to pay
35:57
Speaker 1: them the increased salary.
35:59
Speaker 3: Do that and keep your year over year budget.
36:02
Speaker 1: Is the increase as low as you can so you
36:04
Speaker 1: can reduce the levee. But with that twenty two percent
36:09
Speaker 1: of your total property tax bill that goes to the
36:11
Speaker 1: City of Omaha, you have to stop and think that
36:14
Speaker 1: funds the fire department, the police department, the libraries, the
36:17
Speaker 1: community centers, the swimming pools, the public works department, the
36:20
Speaker 1: Planning department, the legal department, libraries, All of that is
36:25
Speaker 1: funded with the amount of money that we get of
36:29
Speaker 1: the twenty two percent of your total bill. So you know,
36:33
Speaker 1: I feel like the City of Omaha did what we
36:35
Speaker 1: can the past twelve years, but what the state of
36:38
Speaker 1: Nebraska does is more of tax credits and tax incentives,
36:42
Speaker 1: and that is one of the reasons that the state
36:47
Speaker 1: budget was in a deficit too because of those reductions.
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Speaker 1: So but keep in mind that the levee is not
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Speaker 1: determined by the state. The levee is determined locally by
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Speaker 1: your multiple taxing entities.
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Speaker 2: All of this information and all of these mornings with
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Speaker 2: Jean Stuth can be fine can be found on the
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Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. We have the KFAB Comment Line with Jean
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Speaker 2: stauther as a podcast, so all of this you can
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Speaker 2: always hear back if you have any questions, it might
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Speaker 2: be good to check there as well as always reaching
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Speaker 2: out to us. I got another caller for you here.
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Speaker 2: This is Mitchell. Mitchell. You are on news radio eleven
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Speaker 2: ten KFAB with Jean Stouth.
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Speaker 3: Good morning.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you were a really good mayor in
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Speaker 6: the past. That was before I even came to Nebraska.
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Speaker 6: But I came to Nebraska because I had problems handicapped problems.
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Speaker 6: And I moved into an apartment complex and they say
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Speaker 6: they would accommodate me for anything I might need for
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Speaker 6: my apartment or whatever. And then they said there'll be
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Speaker 6: a charge for it.
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Speaker 3: Hm, and you could you just it?
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Speaker 1: You don't have to name the apartment in Omaha, but
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Speaker 1: just tell what part of town you're in.
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Speaker 6: Okay, I'm up in uh uh uh uh North Park
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Speaker 6: or up around the West Mainpot Road.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so you're kind of in northwest Omaha. Yeah, okay.
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Speaker 1: You know that the apartment owners are required by law
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Speaker 1: to provide accommodations for those people that live there with disabilities.
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Speaker 1: So have you have you have you gone to the
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Speaker 1: manager of the apartment or have you gone to the Well,
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Speaker 1: it's hard for you probably to go to the owner,
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Speaker 1: but have you taken any action at all?
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Speaker 6: Well? I went to They told me right up front,
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Speaker 6: I said, if you need any anything we can, we
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Speaker 6: can take care of it for you, but we're going
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Speaker 6: to charge you for whatever it is. You know, like
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Speaker 6: I asked for a stronger rail up to the top
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Speaker 6: uh because I have troubled stairs up the top of
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Speaker 6: stairs too to go up to get my mail. I
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Speaker 6: also ask for close parking spot and you charge me
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Speaker 6: for most of those things that's also free are guaranteed
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Speaker 6: free by the Act of the government.
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Speaker 1: And in as far as I hope I'm saying, what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying is accurate, but it should be, my recommendation
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Speaker 1: to you would be, I'm seem like I'm beating this
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Speaker 1: a lot, but call the Mayor's hotline four four four
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Speaker 1: five five five five and ask about that because it
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Speaker 1: could be a code violation. But also ask how you
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Speaker 1: can be in contact with the board that is, the
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Speaker 1: Citizens with Disabilities, because those are the things that they
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Speaker 1: deal with a lot of issues that are happening in
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Speaker 1: this community and what they can how they can remedy
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Speaker 1: the problem, because I do believe that that is something
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Speaker 1: that should be provided and should be provided without any
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Speaker 1: extra cost to you. But thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: the callppreciate.
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Speaker 6: It, you bet, thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: Very good. See. I like when we get questions like that, Gene,
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Speaker 2: where we get to we get to to test you
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Speaker 2: a little bit and see what you're all about. That
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Speaker 2: was a very good question, Mitchell, and and these type
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Speaker 2: of things too. Jeane does a very good job. She
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Speaker 2: does her research. She looks up on it, looks things
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Speaker 2: up and double checks all of her resources. And we
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Speaker 2: might have to see about this in the future too.
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Speaker 2: You said the mayor hotline was a good choice.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's the one that because it's
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Speaker 1: a one stop shop and that's how I designed it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's been an effect. It's in the city
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Speaker 1: Charter for a long time. But I didn't want to
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Speaker 1: be to have to tell people We'll call the Planning
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Speaker 1: Department at this number, and call the library at this number,
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Speaker 1: and call the community. I wanted one stop shop that
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Speaker 1: you can call and those people that are in that
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Speaker 1: hotline can guide you to the to the direct person.
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Speaker 1: So I hope it's still running the way I set
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Speaker 1: it up, but it's it's sure worth a try.
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Speaker 2: This is the Kfabe comment Line with your host of
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Speaker 2: the show, Jeane Stop Jan Would you like to announce
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Speaker 2: who we have coming on the show tomorrow morning at
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Speaker 2: ten oh five.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I'm really excited we have US Senator Pete Ricketts
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Speaker 1: is going to join us tomorrow. There's so many questions
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Speaker 1: I want to ask him about what is going on
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Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. With the budget, with a ran,
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Speaker 1: get his opinion on a lot of different things.
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Speaker 3: So he is going to be with us.
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Speaker 1: And as everybody knows, he previous was the fortieth governor
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Speaker 1: of the state of Nebraska. But he is us senator
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Speaker 1: now and he will be on with us tomorrow morning.
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Speaker 1: So join in and listen to what Senator Pete Ricketts
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Speaker 1: has to say. And thank you all for listening today,
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Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us.