Posted on 08/14/2018 12:26:28 PM PDT by simpson96
Seattle’s anti-Trump mayor, Jenny Durkan, may be on track for a political backlash: Her city’s $52 million money splash on public transit appears doomed because new taxpayer-funded streetcars apparently won’t fit the existing tracks.
Durkan’s office has braced city residents for the possibility, the Seattle Times reported.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) reportedly ordered 10 new streetcars last year, to help expand the Seattle Streetcar system by linking the two existing streetcar lines.
But the new streetcars also are reportedly heavier and longer than the ones currently in use, raising concerns about whether they'll be used at all.
“It appears the error will require either a change order for design of the streetcars or incur new costs for construction of new or retrofitted maintenance barns,” City Councilmember Lisa Herbold wrote in the city’s blog post last week.
Durkan had to temporarily stop work on the project after revelations that it may cost 50 percent more than previously estimated, the Times reported. The estimated total cost has already increased from $150 million to $200 million.
It's just the latest of several setbacks for Durkan while her national profile continues to rise amid fervent attacks against the Trump administration over immigration, climate change and abortion.
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“As woman mayors, we are doing our part to protect our citizens against the all-out war that the Trump administration has waged against safe, inclusive communities, clean energy, and bold climate action,” she wrote in a tweet.
“Further evidence that Trump’s administration is founded on cruelty and callous disregard for immigrant lives. Seattle stands with Salvadorans against this unjust decision,” she wrote in another tweet, referring to the Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from El Salvador.
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Mayor Jenny DurkanVerified account @MayorJenny
"Hey, @TIME, what do you think about doing an "Avengers 2?" I nominate @SenWarren, for her tireless work standing up to the Trump administration's efforts to rollback progress on states' rights, immigration, healthcare, and so much more."
China learned what happens to the economy and public services (and food) when you put highly political Red Guards in charge, instead of non-political engineers.
People who elect a snowflake like that diserve just what they get. Communist seek to transfer your earnings and property to parasites for political power.
Spain built a new class of submarines.
Turns out they didn’t have enough buoyancy. They could dive, but not come back up again properly.
Back to the drawing board & the docks.
They added length to the submarines, so there would be more displacement.
THEN they found out the new, longer subs DID NOT FIT into the existing docks.
Same engineers as working in Seattle???
LOL - probably not, just the same socialist work ethic ;)
Good intentions and all that.
Meantime, union laborers get more time on the clock. It’s all good.
Earlier this year, the city council also had to repeal a “head tax” aimed at taxing businesses that make $20 million in gross revenue about $275 per full-time worker each year.
The money would have gone to alleviate the homelessness problem. The tax was repealed just a month later after it passed due to pressure from Seattle-based companies Amazon and Starbucks.
That’s not at all surprising considering her qualifications. She doesn’t even know the proper use her sex organs!
From Wikipedia...
“Jenny Anne Durkan (born May 19, 1958) is an American prosecutor and politician from Seattle, Washington. She was elected Mayor of Seattle in 2017, becoming its first female mayor since the 1920s and the city’s second consecutive openly LGBT elected mayor.”
Didn’t recognize these twists without their p***y hats. They make a convincing case against women’s suffrage.
“Spain built a new class of submarines.
Turns out they didn’t have enough buoyancy. They could dive, but not come back up again properly.”
Heck, I could build one of those. Probably save them some money, too!
“...the city’s second consecutive openly LGBT elected mayor.”
And the libtard populace won’t make the connection of how their city is steadily going down the toilet in so many ways.
“As woman mayors”
Just what does that mean? There are woman mayors who don’t hate Trump and are doing a good job.
Pikers compared to Jerry Moonbeam’s $10 BILLION train to and from nowhere.
Omg. Is that the snowflake. How funny. She looks pushy.
Perhaps if they painted pretty flowers on the streetcars, they would fit...
Don’t forget Jerry Brown’s Delta Tunnel.
Gotta keep up, Larry,
It is now a $100 Billion train from nowhere to nowhere...
Poor things!
Generally speaking women make very poor leaders (just look around the world at the Merkels, Mays, South Korea, Brazil Argentina, the feminazis in Sweden and on and on).
When you’re also a delusional sjw homosexual like she is, then you’re truly in incompetency-land.
The morons in Seattle who elected her deserve her.
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