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After years of planning and construction, passengers will be able to ride the Kansas City Streetcars Main Street Extension this week.

A grand opening ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 24, at the new Plaza stop.

The Main Street Extension is a 3.5-mile addition to the current streetcar route, which opened in 2016.

The extension picks up right where the current starter route ends at Union Station. Passengers dont have to disembark and transfer to a new streetcar.

Traveling south on Main Street to East 51st Street and Brookside Boulevard, the southern extension provides access to eight new stops.

Tom Gerend, executive director of the KC Streetcar Authority, sees the extension as a more practical transit mode for commute

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