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The Kansas City Streetcar's highly anticipated Main Street Extension will begin service Friday, marking the end of a three-year construction project that has transformed the city's transit landscape.

The KC Streetcar Authority has planned a public ceremony at 10 a.m. Friday, with the first riders boarding immediately after. Community celebrations will continue Friday night and Saturday.

"We're past the hard part and we're now to the payoff," said Tom Gerend, KC Streetcar Authority executive director. "This is going down in the history books. Come be a part of history."

Local businesses along the route are getting involved, too, many of which have endured years of construction.

"A full three years. It was transitional on every corner,

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