Death of the monorail

I hope everyone in Seattle is happy. We now officially have no plan for rapid transit. I heard George Howland from the Seattle Weekly on KUOW's Weekday on Monday, going on about how ridiculous the monorail plan was: "If people really want to pay billions and billions of dollars to run mass transit from West Seattle and Ballard [he said this with a sarcastic tone] to downtown - I think that's crazy. There's not the population base to do that." OK, George. Nobody lives in Ballard or West Seattle, and nobody is stuck in traffic every day, for lack of a better way to move around town.

And the people actually did want to pay billions to run mass transit on the west side of the city, George. They voted yes four times.

I hope everyone enjoys the traffic (both in their cars and on the bus). It will give them lots of time to think of a better solution that could solve city transportation problems. Who knows, maybe Seattle will even build something in twenty or thirty years.