Positive Signs For Seattle's Citywide Monorail

Seattle monorail planners have tentatively adopted a $1.23 billion plan to expand the monorail from one to 14 miles.

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June 4, 2002, 12:00 PM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen


"They would pay for this expanded system -- which some see as one way to deal with increasingly snarled traffic -- with a 1.4 percent citywide motor-vehicle excise tax... If construction began next year, officials said, a system could be operating by 2007. Planners assume trains leaving stations at four-minute intervals during rush hours and at eight-minute intervals at other times. The system would cost more than $25 million a year to operate, ETC staffers estimate, and would require operating subsidies during the first few years it ran. They estimate the system could be self-sufficient by 2012 if premium fares were charged for special event trains and advertising were sold at the 19 planned stations."

Thanks to Laura Kranz

Tuesday, June 4, 2002 in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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