HULK WILL SMASH ISLAMOFASCISTS!

And no, I'm not letting it go.

I'm almost sincere. My sincere belief is that there are very few principled people who are against tax dollars funding even their own pet projects. Not news, I know.

Where: Federal Courthouse
When: 430pm
Who: Gary Payton and Xavier McDaniel are scheduled to appear

the city will settle for 30-35 million & the anachronistic supersonics name.

OKC will get to the big leagues, which they'll regret within 5 years. the population of the entire state of Oklahoma doesn't equal our 4-county metro region.

i hope they choke on the sonics.

Because that b-ball team sucked bigtime - glad they're gone!

Bleed the sonics ownership for two years or/until a compromise to keep basketball in seattle.

No shit.

Never forget, while you're paying $5 a gallon for gas to get to work from Ballard or West Seattle, that Tim Ceis was the guy who killed the Monorail, with the help of Martin Selig.

How's that 10 percent overage looking now, Tim?

Ceis will make a terrible witness cause he's a lying piece of shit. And he's slimy

...sidenote...@14, Will...not to dredge up old arguments...but why should the West Seattle and Ballard commuted be subsidized by the rest of the city to pay for a system that never, ever would have been expanded to serve more than just those two corridors? Intra-city fixed-transit systems don't make a lot of sense when you can encourage regional transit systems to intersect the City, and get the benefit of a regional tax-base to pay for it.

Face it, DSA and Ceis hate West Seattle and Ballard, and they're not afraid to lie to them to steal their cash and let our 40 percent of transit taxes get 20 percent of transit spending in Seattle.

The day they fight for our due is the day Hades freezes over.

Again, at least ST is paid for on a regional basis, making it much more cost-effective to the residents of Seattle.

Also, you bitch as though other parts of Seattle are better served, specifically, by ST than are WS and Ballard. What does the Central District get out of ST, specifically? That's where I live, and still, I think ST is a better investment into a system than the monorail ever would have been, and I have more hope/faith that the ST Light rail system will be expanded to serve greater areas than the monorail ever would have been.

But, in the end, I'm done arguing about the monorail. Let's look forward to solutions rather than backwards toward what could have been. And currently, light rail is about the explode upon the consciousness of the region.

What's many times more interesting than basketball is leagal analysis, and here's what's interesting about this case: if the city wins this case, you will not have the right to move out of your apparement before your lease is up, even if you pay your landlord rent for those months. The landlord will be able to claim that his interest in the contract is more than the rent, that he leased to you because you flirted with his daughter she likes you, and for that reason you are legally obligated to live in that appartment and wow her for the duration of the lease. So much for renters' rights.

Which would be very very appropriate.

Yeah, that should open in about... oh... 2040.

The monorail would have opened next year, goddamnit. People in West Seattle and Ballard *should* be pissed.

Timmy - because of the fabulous sub area equity we here in Seattle are paying for the $7+ billion (2008 dollars) to get light rail through the city. Great value!

Since a huge percentage of city resident's travels are inside the city, building so-called regional transit doesn't do much for those trips.

And currently, light rail is about the explode upon the consciousness of the region.

When people are told what the ST plan will do and how much it is going to cost and that it won't do anything of any significance until 2020 and the new money won't do anything until 2030 maybe they will hand the final defeat to ST Link.

I live in West Seattle, and I am pissed. The goofballs at the SMP made it that much harder to build rail in this region. They assured us nothing could go wrong. Except lack of agency oversight, basic accounting, minimal engineering experience--you know, things like that.

ST does have subarea equity. Seattle gets out what it puts in. Rail through the city is expensive, just as monorail would have been. Only it carries far more people. For the money we put into ST2 we will end up with a north-south line traversing the city and connecting it to the Eastside, South King, and near the Snoho county line. Sounds like a good place to start for me.

Ouch--you might be surprised to know that twice as many people live in the rest of King County as live in Seattle. And you might be surprised to know that many people who live in Seattle actually work in the rest of the county. And you might want to think about where the 1.5 million people moving here in the next twenty years are going to live. All in Seattle? Or in planned new urban centers near transit stops?