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800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
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No. This sounds like a way to get money for her friends.
Also, what junipero said above.
We should have built it last time. If we were voting about turning back the clock and finishing what we started, it would be a resounding yes.
But we're well on the way towards a real subway for that corridor now. And this vote is to fund a (redundant) study for a monorail, not the monorail itself.
Hell no.
this former chicagoan says 'no.. get another moniker. '
It's too late now to add yet another awkwardly asserted transit option to our mish-mash of various agencies, routes, vehicles and taxes.
All Ballard needs is a Sounder North station.
If it weren't for the last monorail proposal we'd be arguing about which properties would be destroyed for West Seattle and Ballard stops now rather than Bellevue and Redmond stops.
I still believe monorail is the best technology for a Ballart to West Seattle run, but it needs to be built in a way where if ridership outpaces capacity it can be split into 2 lines meeting in the middle.
Monorail, costs less than digging tunnels, can be built quicker, is less disruptive of the surrounding area during construction, and takes up less visual space than light rail. Most importantly, it doesn't get stuck in fucking traffic like the bus!
Hell, I'll vote for it. Lets throw as many right of way transit initiatives against the wall and see what sticks, which potentially could mean more rapid transit.
I'll vote yes. This is about long term transit options that we will need more of in 10-20 years or more not what will barely meet our needs now once it's finished.
Forget it Marge, the mob has spoken.
Seattle will never, ever have sensible mass transit. Give up already.
Fool me once..
Voting Yes again.
Oh sure, Sound Transit is thinking about possibly planning to consider it sometime in the next century. By 2175, we could have light rail to West Seattle! We'll be two-hundred-gawddam-years-old, but still!!
We don't let woodinville voters approve every new streetlight or street improvent in Seattle, why do we bow to them before we can improve our transit?
There's nothing on Earth like a genuine, bona-fide, electrified, six-car monorail!
What'd I say?
However, $2.4B is pretty silly. $24 Billion, at least. That's not exactly Las Vegas terrain being traversed, and there are the inevitable real estate hustles to start it all off. Seattle got off lucky last time to only lose $120M, shutting down the project so there wasn't massive exposure when the Recession hit.
With the Bertha Boondoggle likely to be fresh in folks' minds for a while, getting another fancy transportation project started isn't going to happen.
My favorite by far is Homer's delayed reaction, "hahaha... Mule."
For anyone who missed the previous link, gosh it's worthwhile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZBPoRwo…
five.
fucking.
votes.
by the end, I thought I needed to check myself in at the cozy neighborhood asylum for a minute. reading all this right now is causing my eye to twitch ever so slightly.
Build the Monorail
Not to mention that building a monorail is a crazy expensive way to do any transit line. There are no off the shelf parts. No one builds them. Thats really bad if you want a permanent system. Its like having a completely custom unique car. Every time something breaks you have to get a part ordered special from a machine shop. Bad business.