Critical Monorail Board Meeting Downtown
Tonight at 5:30
Tonight is last night the monorail board has to put something on the ballot in November. They mayor wants them on the ballot in November no matter what, but the mayor is just plain wrong and we need to be there to show our support for the board. The mayor simply isn’t giving them enough time to put something well researched on the ballot.
The meeting is at Seattle Monorail Project Community Room at 1913 4th Avenue downtown. Some of us will be there as early as 5.
The Quick Guide to Your Options at Meetings
The meeting starts at 5:30 and we generally try to show up between 5 and 5:30. If you can make it, here are your three choices for what to do:
Option 1: Show up to meet your fellow 2045ers, grab a button, watch the public comment period and then head home.
Cost: About 30 minutes
Option 2: Show up to meet your fellow 2045ers, sign up to speak in the public comment period when you get there and then head home.
Cost: About 30 minutes and some bravery
Option 3: Meeting and speaking, but you stay for the whole thing.
Cost: The time varies depending on the agenda, but this meeting will probably be a couple hours total.
September 21st, 2005 at 3:06 pm
I am deeply saddened to note that Seattle elected leaders continue to be Luddites where mass transit is concerned. What once was a progressive, innovative city is now one that apparently prefers gridlock and polluted air to innovative mass transit. For those of us outside the city, we’d love to be able to take Sounder into the city and then ride a monorail about the city. We will continue to pray for enlightenment for city leaders and strength of purpose for the beleagured monorail board - Blessings on your endeavors - Pat
September 21st, 2005 at 4:22 pm
Amen Pat!
September 21st, 2005 at 6:51 pm
[...] Look at me, I’m a good citizen! I’m currently sitting in on the Seattle Monorail Project public meeting in which the board must come up with something to put on the November ballot since the mayor recinded his support for the project. I’m sitting next to Christian Goddy, the founder of 2045 Seattle, a pro-monorail organization to show my support for funding rapid transit in Seattle. I’m not 100% convinced that the current SMP monorail plan is the best solution, but if Seattle doesn’t do something then the city’s transportation issues are only going to get worse. [...]
September 21st, 2005 at 7:31 pm
This is another Pat who totally agrees with you, Pat MAil!!! i can’t believe the thinking of this city’s leaders…stone age stuff!!! busses? gimme a break? BUILD OUR MONORAIL!
September 22nd, 2005 at 8:00 am
The big dig in Boston was a bloated, expensive project, and yet they still got it built. Why does this city have such an impossible time investing in infrastructure? Let’s just get the ground broken on this project before gas hits $4/gallon.