Liberal Talk Radio

That’s my take on what’s going on with this latest monorail re-vote. We’ve planned and planned and planned. Seven years of planning and voting and more planning and yet more voting. And just when we’re about to start construction, someone finally pipes up and says, “wait a sec… we don’t have the money to pay for this thing!”

Now you tell us.

And so, with unknown anti-monorail activists leading in the polls for monorail board, it seems a foregone conclusion that the public’s sentiment has turned anti-monorail. This comes less than a year after the monorail beat out a “recall” campaign with 63% of the vote. And so, after all that planning, we’re now going to rush a fifth vote to the November ballot, and do it so quickly and haphazardly that there’s barely enough time to write the “pro” and “con” statements for the voters’ guide.

How much will the new, shortened line cost? Are there still plans to build the other 4 lines? What is Sound Transit planning for the West-Seattle-to-Ballard corridor? Do we have answers to any of these questions? Beats me.

7 years of planning. $200 million spent. And now we’re so embarrassed that we’re going to rush it on to the November ballot, where it will probably fail and die.

Take it out back and shoot it. Tell little Jimmy it went to go live on a farm in the country. It’s better that way.