Monorail Board Meeting Downtown Tonight at 5:30
(With the New Director in Attendence)
There’s a meeting of the Monorail Board of Directors every Wednesday at 5:30pm including this evening at Seattle Monorail Project Community Room at 1913 4th Avenue downtown. Some of us will be there as early as 5. The new director of the agency should be there tonight, so if you’re curious about him and his cool Boston accent, this is a chance to check it out.
Come to the meeting, grab a button, show support for your monorail and then we’ll go grab a drink afterwards. These meetings aren’t for everyone, so even if you drop in just to grab a button, that’s cool too.
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 an hour total.
August 31st, 2005 at 3:44 pm
The most efficient surface level train system in the country has a per rider subsidy of over $6.00 per ride. Most segregated (elevated) and automated train systems like the monorail or BC’s light rail run at nealy break even. That is a per ride subsidy of a few cents, almost always less than a quarter, $0.25.
With this information alone, we know that we should build only automated train systms on segregated (read elevated) tracks.
The monorail is the most quiet of the train systems.
Please do your best to beat the politics and get it done.
August 31st, 2005 at 3:46 pm
I am 79 yrs. old, and may not live to see the Monorail started, let alone finished, but I heartily support it’s construction. It seems to me to be the best solution for a modern city. I can’t believe that it may go out for a 5th. vote! Please don’t let that happen! There seem to be more and more Luddites in the city these days! No wonder Boeing moved it’s corporate HQ to Chicago! Good luck! JJ
September 1st, 2005 at 12:47 pm
We should get over today’s traffic and be riding on a Monorail. We’ve asked for it; we’ve voted FOR it; we can’t afford to NOT have it in operation soon.
Jack Swisher
September 2nd, 2005 at 10:12 am
I don’t live in King County but I believe without true Mass Transit: like the Monorail in King County, most of Populated Western Washington is affected. The light rail system is a sham and everyone I talk with agrees; but it’s going up anyway! We should have had more debate prior to the County’s agreement to this slow expensive alternative.
I have volunteered many hours for the Re-elect monorail campaign and I feel in some way shape or form this monorail should be built!