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Via Seattle Monorail Blog, an Interesting op-ed in the Seattle PI on why voting for the monorail is the least bad option. Bottom line: you can’t just keep opposing things. We need answers, and the monorail is the only one that’s been proposed, planned, and vetted:

In the four years since the Nisqually earthquake, anybody with doubts about the monorail has had an open floor and a ready audience for other ideas. Too bad the podium’s been empty.

Say what you will about the SMP — and I could say a lot — they got their hands dirty. They spent 8 years (and nearly $200 million) hammering out a plan. The plan is far from perfect, but they’re getting there. The SM Blog also notes that the new plan has cut costs by 64%: from $11B to $3.9B. And they’re still going to get 80% of the ridership: 57,000 daily vs. 69,000. And, at 10.6 miles, 78% of the original plan.

Isn’t that a pretty good deal?