City Time Machine
posted by on January 15 at 9:53 AM
Last night at 11:00 I got the following confusing press release. At first I thought it was a mistake. But no: Apparently, the Seattle Monorail Project board has been limping along, trying to clear up unfinished business, for all these months:
[UPDATE: I just got a call from Jonathan Buchter, the SMP’s finance director, who says the reason the agency didn’t just disband a year ago is several lawsuits against it were still pending. The last one was just dismissed; hence the final FINAL meeting.]
Public Meeting NoticeBelow is the agenda for the Seattle Monorail Project’s Board meeting, scheduled at a special date and time. The meeting will be held on Thursday, January 17, 2008 Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Conference Center, the Securities Building, 4th Avenue entrance, 1913 4th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101.
The Board meeting will begin at 5:30 pm.
Thank you – www.elevated.org
Agenda
Seattle Monorail Project
Meeting of Board of Directors
Special Date and Time
Meeting Date: January 17, 2008
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Conference Center
The Securities Building, 4th Avenue entrance
1913 4th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101
The Seattle Popular Monorail Authority (The “Seattle Monorail Project”) is charged with the authority to build, own, operate and maintain a Citywide Monorail System as called for in the Seattle Popular Monorail Plan that was adopted by the Elevated Transportation Company on August 5, 2002 and ratified by Seattle Voters on November 5, 2002 pursuant to Seattle Citizen Petition/Proposition No. 1.Call to Order
Public Comment
Report on the Last 13 Months
Discussion
Audit and Financial Report: (includes report on 2007 Financial Statements and Audit of Liquidation Period)Vote
Adoption of Minutes
November30, 2006Discussion and Vote
Resolution No. 08-01
Authorizing the Transfer of Remaining Assets and the Execution of an Asset Transfer and Trust AgreementDiscussion and Vote
Resolution No. 08-02
Authorizing the Dissolution and Termination of the Seattle Monorail ProjectPublic Comment (Please sign in prior to or during the meeting to be called to speak for this comment period.)
Adjournment
I thought we had that abortion with the monorail already. SOMEONE flush the damn fetus down the toilet already!
This is kinda like having an ex who things end poorly with, and you never want to see again, but he just won't go away after you break up.
Also on the agenda: your stuff in a box for you to pick up.
I remember how the 520 bridge was going to be replaced with an 8-lane bridge and the Viaduct was going to be replaced ...
Oh, wait, those didn't happen either.
Compared to those monsters, the SMP was pretty efficient ... and would have been a lot cheaper.
Thanks, Greg!
Will, you're so dumb.
They had a design for a monorail that narrowed to one railway line at a time, and a switching technology where the switches were 150 feet long and took 2 minutes to switch.
THat shit could never have been built. It was insanity.
The monorail project that was proposed at the end is not the monorail project that was sold to the public at the beginning.
Incompetent leadership that was unwilling/unable to address fundamental flaws in the program killed what started as a good idea.
In the end, it was too expensive, too compromised, and led by arrogant boobs.
I'd go attend the last public hearing to laugh, but I'd really rather drop a sack of burning dog shit on Joel Horn's doorstep, ring the bell and hide.
@6 - isn't that a hate crime? I mean, in Seattle, Monorail is a religion ... even if not popular today ...
The Flying Spaghetti Monster will be providing no beer, pirates, or hookers to Tom Weeks and Joel Horn in the afterlife.
Elsewhere, over on http://www.roadsandtransit.org/
"Notice: This domain name expired on 01/05/08 and is pending renewal or deletion"
Thank you and good night!
Seattle Popular Monorail Authority? Splitters! I'm with the People's Monorail Authority of Seattle.
Andrew do have a link to the information about 2 minute switches?
I would have been confused, too, ECB, but I'm not a reporter. As a citizen, I simply look in the laws of the State of Washington and find that the Legislature has prescribed the method by which the Monorail Authority is to be dissolved. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=35.95A.120 For a reporter such as yourself, apparently such "research" is outside the scope of duty--perhaps because "ironic blogging" takes up too much of your time.
If you didn't spend so much time doing "research" perhaps you'd be wittier.
I think I'm going to go do some "research" now.
Have fun, but remember to wipe up after yourself.
God, I miss those monorail glory days. The $100K-plus jobs. Hiring all of Paul Schell's old aides. Buying color ads in all the community newspapers to shut 'em up. Calling ourselves the People's Monorail Whatever. Building the line on budget and on time and helping people get around Seattle.
Whoops! I hallucinated that last bit.
Goddamnit, this is like rubbing salt in the wounds.
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