Brief Monorail Board Meeting Downtown Tomorrow at Noon
If you haven’t heard already, the mayor is forcing the Seattle Monorail Project to go on the ballot this November. So in response to the urgent deadline, the monorail board is meeting tomorrow at noon to figure out their next steps. A couple of use will be there to make sure our support is heard. The whole thing will probably be about thirty minutes long and then the board will ajorn to a private session to make some tough decisions.
Stop by if you’re in the neighborhood and we’ll grab some lunch after to discuss the work that’s ahead of us.
September 17th, 2005 at 5:49 am
I believe the Mayor is caving under intense pressure form former mayor Royer and other landowners along 2nd ave. not from the average citizens of Seattle.
How much is the 14 mile track to nowhere that Sound Transit is pursuing? The Mayor supports this so-called mass transit. It’s because the controversy and anger to high tax has been quelled by the beurocracy of media and government that are profitting from a transit system that merely says “See we have a mass transit system just like other cities.” In essence goverment says we’ve done our job. The car companies and oil corporations are happy. They lobbyed well…
Steve Leombruno
September 23rd, 2005 at 9:47 am
I think that you need to get outside of the box and reconsider you plan. You are locked into a single line and high inital expense. My understanding is that the original monorail from the center could be repaired and revamped for 50 miollion dollars. If that is the case why not use and hub system using it as the urban transit unit and then approach a feeder that runs the I-5 right of way from Everett to Tacioma. You are not going to be able to correct all of the traffic problems in Seattle by a single system anyway. Insted of a single monorail to handle the proposed transit, why not work with the train system using the trainstation as a jump off at the south end of the track? Why aren’t you contacting the Govenor about helping finance the monorail. She has not problem in financing that stupid viaduct that should be torn down. Repairing the existing roads in downtown area that only increase vehiclular traffic is not only counter productive, it’s political and stupid. Seattle city had no problem wasting billions of dollars on their bus system and the stupid tunnel which couldn’t handle the origtinal Italian busses. Why does Nicholes think that he needs to be fiscally responsible now billions of dollars later. It is past time for Washington State to quit throwing money at old technology involving motor vehicles and to embrace the future , which in this case is the monorail system. Portland Oregon has a system of light rail and trolly that works well you could do something similar using the existing monorail as the hub. The cost would be considerably less and the system would work until a secondary monorail could be erected down the middle of I-5 in the future to meet the 2050 needs of clean rapid transite between Everett, Seattle and Tacoma. It’s time to think ahead to the future and a monorail system is the most reasonable future transportation system that would work in the limited confines of Seattle.
Larry Dunn