Got Funding?

Didn't think so.

It's still a budget cap buster tunnel that we can't afford and don't have the bonding authority to do.

Meanwhile, in the real world, iPS cells are being used to regrow nerves for paralyzed people in Japan, where they actually invest in stuff that's useful.

speaking of capacity - the Deeply Boring Tunnel still has at best two-thirds the capacity of the other two options, and at twice the price.

And that's BEFORE fare avoidance.

I would like to know what "transit" the "tunnel and transit" group is referring to. Even if the Governor hadn't immediately jettisoned her promise to secure more funding authority for Metro, the transit component of the DBT is the smallest of all the alternatives.

Who are the transit advocates in this group?

http://tunnelplustransit.com/who-we-are/…

Ye Olde Curiousity Shop doesn't count.

I wonder if this project ever would have gone through if Seattle had district (vs. at-large) elections? That's not a statement, I actually wonder that.

The only transit in the Billionaires Tunnel will be the limos from the Gates Foundation and SLU to Boeing Airfield.

@6, plus my 25 year old ultra reliable Japanese built pickup truck.

Oof. This group will be just as helpful to the tunnel-yes crowd as SCAT is to the tunnel-no crowd.

@7 day workers don't count.

Seattle is always wanting to be a "Real City".

Yet almost all "real" cities like New York City and San Francisco, when faced with a delapidated downtown elevated highway, chose to simply remove it and go with a surface street.

The Embarcadaro and Westside Highway are both the very successful, traffic, pedestrian, bicycle, and transit friendly results.

Some people want transit, and some people want transit PLANS, because they know perfectly well that transit plans can be used to forestall actual transit forever, if you dick around with them enough.

@12 also it's funded by Sound Transit, a multi-county agency, so it REALLY has nothing to do with the Tunnel ripoff.

Dominic,

2 minor corrections. You mean "First AVENUE streetcar". It's also not funded in the DBT plan. The $190m is for bus stuff only.

@9, I'm a night worker.

@ 14) Thanks, I've changed "Hill" to "Ave." Was writing too fast, I guess. But I never said the $190 mill was for the streetcar, so I left that part as is.