‘It’s waking us up in the middle of the night’: Downtown residents tired of burnouts

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Cars burning out, doing donuts, and screeching down Grand Boulevard have many residents frustrated.

Andrew Zorn and his fiancé live at The Grand and showed KCTV5 videos of the constant annoying and dangerous activity.

“It’s waking us up in the middle of the night,” Zorn said. “Also, whenever I get home from work, they start doing donuts.”

In the videos, it shows the cars meeting up in the parking lot at the corner of 12th and Grand. Then they spin out and do donuts at every intersection and sometimes in the middle of the road.

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“It’s frustrating,” Zorn said. “KC is a beautiful city, and we love living here, but the noise in the middle of the night and that they don’t seem to stop is frustrating.”

Willie Miner lives and works downtown and told KCTV5 he thinks it’s gotten worse in the last month, saying it’s getting louder and happening earlier.

“It’s really tough for the residents,” Miner said. “Just revving their engines and going extremely fast and going up and down the street.” Both Miner and Zorn hope to see something done.

“When I do see the police, they just sit back and watch until they get through. Whenever they get through, that’s when they do their arresting,” Miner said.

Zorn said they’re having trouble getting into contact with anyone about the situation.

“We’ve just kinda been getting the run around from the city and police,” Miner said.

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The Kansas City Police Department told KCTV5 they weren’t available for an interview but said, “We have had multiple concerted efforts with city partners and our traffic unit to be proactive in curbing some of the reckless driving and sideshows we have experienced in KC.”

They added that they are currently working to implement more proactive traffic efforts in the future.

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