Seattle's Light Rail: Disaster In The Making?
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.
Thanks to Laura Kranz
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Published on Monday, August 25, 2003 in
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