[notatoad]

The reason Kansas City was selected was supposedly because they were the most willing to give access to utility poles and let google dig up streets/alleys where necessary to run the fibre. I don't know if that's the case with these more recent expansions, but i suspect it is.

[cookiecaper]

KC was selected for a lot of reasons -- tons of cities were desperate to be the first Fiber city and would've given any accommodation necessary. KC had the perfect coalescence of geography (quite flat, minimal bodies of water, etc), market availability, and governmental cooperation for the pilot.