Seattle's Monorail Mess
3 October 2004 - 5:00am
$1.6 billion monorail initiative is on a collision course.
Visions of a slick, elevated train gliding over streets choked with traffic wooed a razor-thin majority of city voters to pass the Seattle Monorail initiative two years ago.Now the $1.6 billion project is on a collision course with another ballot measure to kill it - the latest snag in the city's tortured dreams to get wheels off roads and people into anything that moves on rails.
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 2, 2004
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