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Hmm - funny b/c I took the Monorail just yesterday for grins (the #36 bus grates on me after a while). Seemed to run just fine.

Posted by yerbamatty | August 6, 2007 11:05 AM
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What you have to remember is that it's a theme park ride and not a means of transportation - if it's not working it really isn't that big a deal because you can just walk the 5 or 6 blocks that it covers. Unless you really, really want to ride the monorail, in which case normal rules for waiting for theme park rides apply (slowness, disapointment, etc...)

Posted by art | August 6, 2007 11:06 AM
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God. That is horrible.

Right here in Seattle on Saturday we had the equivalent of the post-Katrina Superdome terror. When will FEMA get its act together?

The saddest part is those two children. It's terrible when anybody finds themselves stranded at Westlake Center with no help finding out how to get back to the Seattle Center (except an iPhone and the Metro Trip Planner). For that to happen to a child is beyond tragic. I don't think there is much hope they will ever be able to live normal lives, do you? They're like those child soldiers in Africa. Too much pain, too young, and you can't just get over an experience like that.

Tough break, Glenn. I know sorry doesn't cut it, but I still want to say how sorry I am that you had to go through all that. You hang in there, man.

Posted by elenchos | August 6, 2007 11:09 AM
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In related news, Metro bus system still unsafe as the buses break down even more frequently.

Oh, wait, sorry, I forgot we have a double standard here.

Posted by Will in Seattle | August 6, 2007 11:32 AM
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The monorail's for tourists. It doesn't work very well because the people who use it don't stay around long enough to make it better.

Posted by Andy | August 6, 2007 11:34 AM
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i think glenn's point is that no one is MANAGING the monorail.

and that is a valid point.

nothing frustrates like baldfaced, unapologetic incompetency.

Posted by maxsolomon | August 6, 2007 12:04 PM
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Sorry, Glenn. I put an ancient Irish curse on the monorail in December 2005. I would have given it second thoughts if I'd known that disappointing little kids would be part of the outcome, but I was pissed off at the time. And drunk.

Posted by Grant Cogswell | August 6, 2007 1:39 PM
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I don't really get her point, either. It wasn't immediately clear to me she wasn't actually on the train when it happened (it would be frustrating to be stuck on a train in the middle of the route.. unless I had the day free, then it would be kinda fun), just annoyed that it happened at all.

I did enjoy her defensiveness about owning an iPhone, however.

#3, so good.

Posted by Dougsf | August 6, 2007 1:43 PM
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why did s/he even have to mention the iphone? there are other "tools of the trade" that can check the internet. ug!!!!!! the whole argument is discredited now. snore.

Posted by audrey | August 6, 2007 2:21 PM
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Those carping about the iPhone mention, don't you think it would've been confusing if Glenn had just written, "I used Metro Transit’s awesome Trip Planner," without any mention of how this was accomplished from the monorail waiting area?

Unless there's a mobile version I don't know about, the trip planner website is not exactly cell-phone friendly.

Posted by lostboy | August 6, 2007 3:57 PM
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Funny. When the horrible, inefficient government (as represented by Metro) ran the monorail, it had very few problems.

It's only been since the wonderful, enlightened, and remarkably efficient private sector took over the monorail that these problems have happened.

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