Council Approves Rail Planning to Ballard

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Dominic, you are awesome, as usual. :)

Ben Schiendelman on July 25, 2012 at 3:19 PM

What about all those people working at Centran for the past year on the monorail to Ballard? http://www.centran.org/

iBear on July 25, 2012 at 3:32 PM

@2, Seattle Subway had eight people show up on a weekday morning to urge the Transportation Committee to lift the proviso. Centran had none. Seattle Subway is actually doing the groundwork and outreach necessary to get real high quality transit to all our neighborhoods whereas Centran hasn't done anything but put out a press release a few months ago.

Sorry, but the monorail is dead.

Matthew 'Anc' Johnson on July 25, 2012 at 3:49 PM

Ziplines ftw.

Will in Seattle on July 25, 2012 at 4:02 PM

So using a streetcar rather than a subway for this line is still on the table? That sucks.

Free Lunch on July 25, 2012 at 7:01 PM

the short part of light rail u district to nothgate to add what, four stations and four miles? that is going to be 4 billion. the 2005 subway at 10.5 miles with many more stations was 2.2 billion. this included 15 years operating cost, too.

how deep a tunnel under ship canal? how much will a subway tunnel under the ship canal cost? will it be $4 billion just to get from westlake to ballard, or more like $6 billion? where is the tax base for this kind of cost?

on July 25, 2012 at 8:31 PM

@6 after we cancel the Billionaires Tunnel there is plenty of funding.

Will in Seattle on July 25, 2012 at 9:25 PM