Isn't it amazing what a lot of feedback at community events will do?

Nobody who actually votes in Seattle agrees with Council selling us off for $10,000 per household in extra taxes to pay for cost overruns for a boondoggle Billionaires' Tunnel we don't want and never voted for that is the State's problem.

"If the council can say the state must pay overruns here, is it reasonable then to say the state must pay overruns on all portions of the project?"

Of course it is, but the current council that are in bed with the state are either

A) Playing a ridiculously dangerous legal game that they can "con" the state into funding the tunnel and then eating the cost on principle.

B1) Brainwashed somehow by Conlin or B2) Brainwashed somehow by these things: $$$ in campaign financing.

Not much else makes sense, and A and B1 and B2 are both horrible. If the Council just took a principled stand and told the state to shove off, do we really think the State would just let a major north-south highway vanish? Please. The Viaduct is already on the Green Mile, and the city has more power here than they realize. They're just too conservative to use it, to the detriment of their political careers.

Enjoy the anti-you campaign advertisements the minute city taxpayers get dinged with $0.01 in cost overruns that the rest of the state won't be paying. Enjoy your retirements.

After moving here from Boston, it boggles my mind that anyone here can think another Big Dig could possibly be a good thing.