(Seattle) Monorail's building, debt costs balloon to $11 billion (sold to voters as $2 billion!)

Seattle Post-Intelligence ^ | 6/22/05 | JANE HADLEY

[Betaille]

But don't you know! If we just close ourselves off from foreign trade and build monorails everywhere our economic problems will be solved!

[Betaille]

"The project will bring 2,100 jobs every year for construction, she noted."

Ever heard of broken window fallacy? Maybe this explains why Willie Green supports it.

[Pyro7480]

Monorail

[Mr. Jeeves]

"The kids who graduated from high school this month will be paying this monorail tax for their entire working life and maybe into their retirement, but they had no say in planning or approving the Green Line," she said.

No, they won't - they'll just move out of Seattle. ;)

[flashbunny]

color me shocked.

A public transporation project running over budget?

Next thing you know, celebrities in LA will be able to get away with murder.

[Petronski]

D'oh!

[flashbunny]

"The project will bring 2,100 jobs every year for construction, she noted."

You could do the same thing by hiring a group of people to break car windows and another group to repair the same car windows. Voila! Employment for a bunch of people!

[massgopguy]

"Final Costs?" BWA HA BWA HA HA HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. gasp.

[oblomov]

The Dem mayor of Indianapolis is promoting a monorail/light rail system, and the Indianapolis Star (once conservative, but now that it is owned by Gannett, its editorial policy has "grown") is promoting it relentlessly.

[goodnesswins]

We gotta get I-912 on the Ballot.....these dufuses in Seattle are just HELPING us along!!!

[rockrr]

Besides, it makes the Emerald City look "cool."

Dead on!

Despite the fact that it doesn't go from anywhere important Like downtown) to anywhere important (like the airport), the leftist toilet-drinkers here locally are "pee~their~pants" excited about paying excessive fees for decades over this!

[Random Nonsense]

let me make a correction: Final cost so far :)

[mysterio]

Indiana government, both state and local, is FUBAR. I can't remember a time when I have disagreed more with the decisions they are making. Monorails, handouts to the Colts, DST, sin taxes, the list goes on and on.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Well, you get what you pay for and Washington got this administration. Good luck to them.

One good thing, in 2008 they can blame Gregorie for it.

[fortunecookie]

LOL! I love that episode! Seattle voters must not watch 'The Simpsons', too bad for them.

[jocko12]

DEMWITS.

[Myrddin]

Yet another stupid example of public transportation boondoggles financed on the back of taxpayers. Most of the taxpayers will never even have a need or opportunity to use the monorail boondoggle in Seattle. They will have the pleasure of paying for front end alignments made necessary by potholes that were not fixed because of money stolen by the monorail project. Just plain stupid.

[SweetPilotofCanuckistan]

Pretty expensive homeless shelter...

(who else is going to ride it??)

[Wolfie]

Unless they're actuall done, double it.

[N. Theknow]

this reminds me of Boston Big Dig.

My first thought when I saw the article was if the monorail was referred to as "The Big Lift."