VIDEO: Streetcar construction crews struck a gas line on Wednesday morning, resulting in evacuations of some nearby businesses.
Officials told KCTV5 that construction personnel working on underground train and traffic signals hit the 3-inch gas line in the area of Westport Road and Main Street.
As a result, Main Street from 39th Street and 40th Street to Westport Road was closed as Spire crews worked to shut the valve off.
The gas valves were shut off after almost three hours, but people who work on the block by Westport and Main are still irritated because this has happened twice now. They wonder how many more times this will happen before the streetcar extension is complete. Making their day “brutal” as one business owner put it.
“This has definitely been the worst,” Christina Decker, owner of Mid-West Cycler, said.