Seattle's Monorail Mess

$1.6 billion monorail initiative is on a collision course.

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October 3, 2004, 5:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

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.

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: West Wire: Monorail mess the latest snag in Seattle's mass transit dreams

Saturday, October 2, 2004 in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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