Foiled again...

We're talking in reality about a system that's estimated to cost $10-15 billion at most to expand throughout King County. I can expect overruns of a few billion to that sort of figure, but how could they possibly get to $100 billion?

WOAH maybe we should re-think this thing!

:-/

What's odd about the resident light rail foes is that they're never confident enough arguing the facts. Instead they have to take the facts and distort them into the realm of the ridiculous.

If you think $10 billion or so is too much to spend on a mass transit system, then just say so. You'd actually have a better case than trying to add an extra zero.

Name one tax or fee that's ever been rolled back or reduced without a voter initiative or citizens voting no on a levy(thus allowing it to expire).

Prop 1 would incur a 0.5% sales tax increase. Using some fourth grade math, we can see that to spend $60,000 in taxes Eyman’s average family would have to spend $12,000,000 on taxable items.

In the historical record to date, Sound Transit has not ever rolled back its taxes. The new Prop 1 on the November ballot is to gain approval for doubling Sound Transit's taxes.

Knedlik is famous for losing lots and lots of lawsuits, including a recent one which concluded with Knedlik losing his $4 million Kirkland waterfront home. Too bad all the frivolous and ridiculous anti-rail lawsuits Knedlik has filed against ST didn't backfire in a similar manner.

So, uh, how do you get to $60,000 with .5% of sales taxes? Answer that or STOP LYING.

And then there was John Niles' long-time cheerleading for monorail.

These anti-rail freeway boosters are so easy to see through...yet the apologists at the Seattle Times refuse to touch Kemper's people with even a slightly critical analysis of their endless jihad against rail transit. Indeed, the Times and PI won't even identify John Niles' right wing sugar-daddies, including the Washington Policy Center.

John Niles' efforts to put a toll booth on every freeway (to force people on to slow, unrelievle buses... and keep the roads free of non-rich drivers) is under attack via yet another Tim Eyman initiative.

But don't expect Niles or any of anti-toll Kemper's other goons to expend any energy criticizing Eyman. No problem I-985 would potentially wipe-out Niles' HOV + BRT dreams. The BRT part is just an afterthought. It's making cars move on big freeways that keeps John Niles energized.

Come to think of it, John Niles has found a way to stoop BELOW lying.

Now, that's something to be proud of.

It's amazing how ideology and pet personal grudges can turn an educated, mature man into a petty, Rovian liar-for-hire.