Does anyone doubt that if loot rail hadn't been invented, we would NOT have wasted over $100 million on bogus, pre-ordained-outcome studies with worthless, pre-ordained results?
The entire purpose for this nonsensical, massive, colossal waste of billions is to get loot rail over the new, not-needed-or-wanted worthless bridge replacement. No loot rail... no new bridge.
Unfortunately, what we have is a political leadership in the pockets of local unions and party hacks... and all concerned lack the guts to admit the obvious: the bridge replacement is a scam to get loot rail into Clark County.
Period.
Well, we have a template of how those sorts of things are done in this state... how the voters are lied to, abused and ripped off. Does anyone here remotely believe that this toilet project will turn out differently? And it's what happened in Seattle:
Light Rail not quite what voters were promised
01:26 PM PDT on Friday, July 17, 2009
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Sound Transit light rail
SEATTLE - If you want a new way to get to Tukwila, or get out of Tukwila, this is your big weekend.
Believe it or not, there will be light rail trains rolling through Seattle starting Saturday. This has been a long time coming. We voted on this back in 1995 and it was defeated, then again on a slimmed down version in 1996, which passed. Now, 13 years later, we will be able to use 14 miles of track and 12 Link stations spread from downtown, through the south end, almost all the way to Sea-Tac Airport.
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Pretty nice. But 13 years ago we voted on a ten-year plan that promised a lot more track and a lot more stations and a much smaller price tag. 25 miles and 26 stations for $1.8 billion. That was what voters were told they would get in terms of light rail if they passed "Sound Move," the regional transit plan which included billions more for express bus service, HOV lanes, commuter rail expansion and many more transit improvements.
Now, we'll pay another $1.9 billion to run tracks up to Capitol Hill and out to the University of Washington. And the "Sound Transit 2" measure which passed last fall will add 36 more miles of line, putting back in play many of those earlier, disappearing miles and stations. The price tag on those light rail extensions and many more transit improvements is more than $17 billion.
Enjoy the ride. Which, for the next two days at least, will be free.
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