Seattle (historic) monorail to reopen this summer
The Times reports that the historic Seattle Monorail (ie – not the Seattle Monorail Project that was to have been built through the city and was voted down last fall) will be reopening this summer in time for Bumbershoot.
This is good news, because some had suggested that it simply shouldn’t be repaired and should be torn out; a terrible idea since the historic monorail is highly utilized by tourists, shoppers, and event-goers at Seattle center and because it was also one of the very few profitable transit systems in the country.
One of the scare tactics used by opponents-to-reopening it was saying it would cost upwards of $100 million to get the line back in service. Actual estimated cost? $3–4 million.
