A huge sigh of relief (Score 1)

Praise whatever holy entity you believe in that the city finally listened to the state treasurer. I think this project killed itself with their budget plan back in June. Somehow, $11 billion for a 14 mile monorail that would carry something like 1000 passengers per day seemed fiscally irresponsible (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/2295 04_monorail22.html). Seattle needs major transportation relief, but blowing that much in one place is absurd. The monorail has a funny way of not dying though, so I expect it to wind up on the ballot as an initiative. I don't quite see how the whole eastern vs western Washington thing crept in here, but there is quite enough bitterness and high-mindedness on both sides of that fence.