Slog - Comments on Time Machine http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine 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 Notice Below is the agenda for the Seattle Monorail Project’s Board meeting, scheduled... Copyright 2008 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:53:08 -0800 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:01:55 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Cato the Younger Younger I thought we had that abortion with the monorail already. SOMEONE flush the damn fetus down the toilet already!

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899163 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899163 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:13:29 -0800 Comment by Mickymse 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.

]]> Mickymse http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899214 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899214 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:58:23 -0800 Comment by Greg Also on the agenda: your stuff in a box for you to pick up.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899220 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899220 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:02:01 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle 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 in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899256 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899256 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:20:38 -0800 Comment by Andrew 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.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899293 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899293 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:46:01 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV 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.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899348 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899348 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:25:36 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @6 - isn't that a hate crime? I mean, in Seattle, Monorail is a religion ... even if not popular today ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899361 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899361 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:31:27 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV The Flying Spaghetti Monster will be providing no beer, pirates, or hookers to Tom Weeks and Joel Horn in the afterlife.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899389 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899389 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:52:36 -0800 Comment by nbc Elsewhere, over on http://www.roadsandtransit.org/

"Notice: This domain name expired on 01/05/08 and is pending renewal or deletion"

]]> nbc http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899395 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899395 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:55:10 -0800 Comment by Grant Cogswell Thank you and good night!

]]> Grant Cogswell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899418 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899418 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:12:18 -0800 Comment by K Seattle Popular Monorail Authority? Splitters! I'm with the People's Monorail Authority of Seattle.

]]> K http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899455 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899455 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:37:40 -0800 Comment by schmidt Andrew do have a link to the information about 2 minute switches?

]]> schmidt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899497 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899497 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:01:07 -0800 Comment by read the damn law 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.

]]> read the damn law http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899589 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899589 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:29:27 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV If you didn't spend so much time doing "research" perhaps you'd be wittier.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899594 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899594 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:34:57 -0800 Comment by Greg I think I'm going to go do some "research" now.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899615 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899615 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:47:36 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Have fun, but remember to wipe up after yourself.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899669 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899669 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:41:18 -0800 Comment by J.R, 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.

]]> J.R, http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899696 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899696 City Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:18:14 -0800 Comment by litlnemo Goddamnit, this is like rubbing salt in the wounds.

]]> litlnemo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899875 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/time_machine#c899875 City Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:01:55 -0800