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I would love for Seattle to ban cruise ships as well, if only for the absolute madness their passangers create at the Seatac airport. I would personally kill th

• seanmcdirmid 3y ago
  The smell they emit when running their generators in port is also horrible. I don’t see much good cruise ships bring Seattle, it was better back in the 90s before this was much of a thing. I’m not even sure what they do beyond hitting pike place and a bit of the water front.
  • everybodyknows 3y ago
    The market-based solution for that of course would be to engineer municipal power to the docks along with estimated costs for the project. Set a required minimum risk-weighted profit to the city of 2x or so. Then solicit bids for binding long-term contracts from cruise companies, with the stipulation that their generators stay off while in port. If no bids meet the minimum, shelve the whole thing. Otherwise, proceed and enjoy the boost to the city treasury. Of course in the real world this would be a political process and highly vulnerable to corruption by private interests.
    • seanmcdirmid 3y ago
      Ya, they talk about doing that because of the smell, but no one wants to pay for it.