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This won't pass with the current proposal. No one is going to vote to significantly increase their taxes for something they won't even see in 20 years. Most peo
by seattle_spring 11y ago
This won't pass with the current proposal. No one is going to vote to significantly increase their taxes for something they won't even see in 20 years. Most people have no idea where they'll be in 5 years, let alone 20. Further, the entire proposal is for at-grade rail. That means that these trains will be delayed by both road and waterway traffic. Do you really want to be stuck in a train for 30 minutes while some rich guy needs to float his yacht through a major city?
- frankus 11y agoThe timeline sucks, and there's arguably too much at grade, but the particularly congested part (from Uptown to International District) would be in a new tunnel.
- CamperBob2 11y agoAgreed, it won't fly. I'm not going to vote to spend $50E9 on a transit system that will be finished just in time to be rendered obsolete by autonomous vehicles.