When the interurban rail line and trolley cutting through the neighbourhood were taken outofservice in 1939 and 1941, the area went into rapid decline.
Google began rolling out the service in the Kansas City metro area last fall, following years of planning, and is already cited as the fastest ISP in the United States by Netflix.
Chief Executive Brian Roberts is expected to announce on Monday that the company will roll out an Internet-based phone service in 20 of its markets during 2005, and to its complete coverage area in 2006.
Instead of requiring that franchisees build out to an entire franchise area which often makes both new entry and service upgrades unprofitable remove build-out requirements and craft smart subsidies to encourage competition to deliver high-quality universal service, and to deliver superfast broadband to the customers who want it.