Liberal Talk Radio

While we were debating various transportation “solutions,” Sound Transit has been furiously pouring concrete. Witness the Link Light Rail maintenance facility, looking damn near complete.

Though I was a big supporter of the Monorail Project, I always thought that the biggest argument against it was that we would have to build TWO of these buildings, one for rail, one for monorail (in addition to the three or four we already have for buses). And not just build two maintenance barns, but also train and equip two sets of engineers with two sets of skills maintaining two distinct transit modes. Compared to the overall costs of maintaining a transit system, this redundancy may not have amounted to all that much. But it would have been something.