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Prospect MAX: The East Side Corridor That Was Built, and the Kiosks That Report Their Own Failures

Revision 2026-08-19-baseline · effective 2026-08-19

Superseded. A later revision exists: 2026-08-20-source-dates →

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 4 claims and 4 source dossiers.

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4: of 4 claims mapped
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0: publication dates recorded
0: archives linked
0: exact locators
0: content captures hashed

Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-881f93b0cc9d89de quantitative

Prospect MAX opened on 9 December 2019, a bus rapid transit line running from downtown to the new 75th & Prospect Transit Center

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: Mass Transit reports the opening date of 9 December 2019; RideKC describes the line running from downtown to the 75th & Prospect Transit Center.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Mass Transit — KCATA to open Prospect MAX BRT on Dec. 9
RideKC / KCATA — Prospect MAX

Claim 2 clm-c7edc9d128ae3629 quantitative

at a cost of approximately $54 million funded through a mix of federal and local funds, including $29.98 million from the Federal Transit Administration Small Starts Program

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: KCATA states the project cost of approximately $54 million and the $29.98 million contribution from the FTA Small Starts Program within a federal and local funding mix.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

RideKC / KCATA — Prospect MAX

Claim 3 clm-5efcc604e0e268ae descriptive

touchscreen wayfinding kiosks with interactive trip planning and real-time departure information, and a SmartLink management controller remotely monitors the performance of each device and sends outage alerts to KCATA when devices lose power or connectivity

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: The station technology release describes wayfinding kiosks providing interactive trip planning and real-time departure information, and a SmartLink management controller that remotely monitors the performance of each device and sends outage alerts to KCATA when devices lose power or connectivity.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Mass Transit — KCATA's new Prospect MAX BRT stations to add digital wayfinding and SmartLink remote management system

Claim 4 clm-62495bc4b570547b descriptive

KCATA is a bi-state authority serving both sides of the Missouri–Kansas line

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: KCATA is the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, a bi-state agency operating across the Missouri and Kansas sides of the metropolitan area.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

RideKC / KCATA — Prospect MAX

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

unreviewed Revision 2026-08-19-baseline effective 2026-08-19 · created 2026-08-19

Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither.

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0: archives linked
0: exact locators
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator: Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA), a bi-state authority
Actor types: regional-government, national-government
Funding model: grant
Funding description: Approximately $54 million, including $29.98 million from the Federal Transit Administration Small Starts Program, with local match
Cost: Not recorded
Ownership: Not recorded
Decision rights: Not recorded
Exit conditions: Not recorded

4 source dossiers

RideKC / KCATA — Prospect MAX ridekc.org · 3 linked claims

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Stable source ID: src-47ba5a068b19ce7c
Publisher: Name not classified · ridekc.org
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-19
Dossier created: 2026-08-19
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: No locator recordedDescriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-881f93b0cc9d89de
clm-c7edc9d128ae3629
clm-62495bc4b570547b

Mass Transit — KCATA to open Prospect MAX BRT on Dec. 9 masstransitmag.com · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-97292f69d8318bc5
Publisher: Name not classified · masstransitmag.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-19
Dossier created: 2026-08-19
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: No locator recordedDescriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-881f93b0cc9d89de

Mass Transit — KCATA's new Prospect MAX BRT stations to add digital wayfinding and SmartLink remote management system masstransitmag.com · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-8646db2fd7e95df2
Publisher: Name not classified · masstransitmag.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-19
Dossier created: 2026-08-19
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: No locator recordedDescriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-5efcc604e0e268ae

Government Technology — Bringing the Smart City Vision to Kansas City's Neglected East Side govtech.com · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-278902de949facd7
Publisher: Name not classified · govtech.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-19
Dossier created: 2026-08-19
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: No locator recordedDescriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

Known limits of this passport

Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.