"Will Kelley-Kamp Reads Joel Connelly..."

As for taxes, "Taxes are the price you pay for civilization."

Young people and parents of young children largely support mass transit, because we actually have a stake in the long term direction of the city.

Geezers like Joel can't see beyond one or two years.

Honestly, I kind of like that Joel writes for the PI. It gives me chance to keep track of what passes for reality with those fucking whackjobs in the 'burbs.

Obviously, he knows perfectly well that Seattle voters overwhelmingly don't want to spent their tax dollars subsidizing Oklahoma billionaires and their sports franchises. It's a prudential and conversative approach to taxes -- just the opposite of what he implies. Same goes for the viaduct, of course: the surface-transit option is the least tax-dependent of the choices.

But since the bulk of the article is about races for the School Board, the Port and the Council, he has proved one thing about the Stranger and Goldstein -- you are hyper-sensitive.

What if the viaduct's gone and there *isn't* fantastic mass transit?

Or, what if there *is* fantastic mass transit and the viaduct is still there?]

Then I imagine the whole city will be overrun by the monkeys that fly out of my butt.

As for the major thoroughfares, the main uses they should be encouraged for are cargo and interurban (meaning from Seattle to Portland, not Everett) travel. And frankly, we should never have allowed the interstate highway system to dominate either. When container shipping became commonplace in '50s, we should have repealed the Jones Act (which forbids a ship from loading cargo in one US port and unloading it in a different one without first visiting "a far distant port of call"), and emphasized sea routes for coastal shipping and revitalized the railroads for inland shipping. It would have fucked with the Teamsters, but the Longshoremen and Stevedores would have experienced a renaissance.