The Kansas City Streetcar resumed operations Friday morning after a rail buckled in the heat on the Fourth of July. Service on the free rail line was abruptly suspended after a rail on the Main Street Bridge over I-670 failed on Independence Day. This shut down the existing line, which runs 2.2 miles from Union Station to the City Market. Experts have pointed to the heat-caused failure as a possible impact of climate change on infrastructure around the country, from rail lines to roads and sidewalks, all of which can buckle under extreme heat. Construction on a rail expansion that will take the streetcar to the Country Club Plaza is also underway. That plan includes safeguards against the type of rail failure that just happened on the downtown section, a spokeswoman for the streetcar said. Read more at the link in our bio. #KansasCity #KC #KCStreetcar #PublicTransportation