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Seattle's Light Rail: Disaster In The Making?

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Laura Kranz
26 August 2003 - 1:00pm

Have Seattle's plans for an expensive light-rail line become the laughing stock of the transportation world, as Randal O'Toole charges?

"Seattle's plans for an expensive and largely useless light-rail line have become the laughing stock of the transportation world. If built, the line will enrich engineering and construction firms and gratify transit-agency egos. But nothing more will result other than to take dollars from taxpayers' pockets.

Full Story: Cruising to disaster on light rail
Source: The Seattle Times, August 25, 2003
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