Goldy, Ya made me laugh again. Real Motley Crew aren't they.

Light rail in the abstract is great. Virtually everything about Sound Transit -- its unaccountable board, its abusive regressive taxing, its glacially-slow pace, its inability to foster private development near the stations -- is completely FUBAR.

what "wroks" the world over is subways and elevated lines that go fast. and you need the whole system; lines covering various parts of the city and meeting in and around downtown. what we are building here is not such a sytem. it's basically "one line" in seattle; you need really several. then, it goes on the surface ensuring slower trains and limited capacity. when we build the ship canal tunnel, guess what, it's capacity is maxed out meaning no other lines from north seattle can be hooked up to help that system growth. and we will be putting more stations in bellevue than in north seattle, so we're not really building the normal kind of system. add to this the sounder north fiasco, a billion in capital wasted for 6000 rides a day (on days without mudslides), and sound transit really isn't doing much -- oh wait, they did help kill the monorail in a fit of pique. in this context mcginn is no hero. he has NO plan for rail to ballard or west seattle -- and we're going to get rail to ballard quicker by waiting for skytrain from vancouver to be extended there than we will by hoping that seattle politicians do it. seriously, you want more rail in seattle, just hand over authority to skytrain in vancouver, they are adding lines about 3x faster than we are.