...
What'd I say?
Ned Flanders: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
Patty+Selma: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: That's right! Monorail!
[crowd chants `Monorail' softly and rhythmically]
Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud...
Lyle Lanley: It glides as softly as a cloud.
Apu: Is there a chance the track could bend?
Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
Barney: What about us brain-dead slobs?
Lyle Lanley: You'll be given cushy jobs.
Abe: Were you sent here by the devil?
Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I'm on the level.
Wiggum: The ring came off my pudding can.
Lyle Lanley: Take my pen knife, my good man.
I swear it's Springfield's only choice...
Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: Once again...
All: Monorail!
Marge: But Main Street's still all cracked and broken...
Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!
All: Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
[big finish]
Monorail!
Homer: Mono... D'oh!

way to hog all the fun Knockboots.

Can submitty read English? Do you know what the words "failed", "not", and "won't" mean?

mule with a spinning wheel

mono=one
rail=rail

hehe mule

meh.

BORING!

I don't know. This seems like more of a Shelbyville ideal to me.

What about us brain-dead slobs?

The ring came off my pudding can

Cool. I live about 8 blocks from there.
Now that's a monorail I would vote for!

braedan
You'll all be given cushy jobs

THIS gets a green light? Trust me, there are more interesting things in Seattle than this going on right now. Maybe the dirty hippie liberal fungus covered longhaired excuse for a FARK moderator has as soft spot for Seattle, er something.

\I bet they bananate me.

I call the big one "Bitey"

braedan: What about us brain-dead slobs?

You'll be late to the punch with a joke.
/Paging Dr. Knockboots to the thread morgue...

It'll put Seattle on the map!

Die in a traffic jam, Seattle. I hope you love gridlock because with your blatent stupidity and lack of planning you'll never get a decent transit system.

\Portlander
\\our transit system kicks your pathetic asses

Submitter's heading is the exact opposite of what happened. Eh.

mono = one
rail = rail

What's wrong with you, Seattle?

You could have had a monorail.
But you chose not to.

How could they possibly decide "No monorail rides for us."?

I shouldnt have stopped to get that haircut ....

All you have to do to get on is answer a riddle.

Hey, did you know that headline is a reference to an episode of The Simpsons?

The LAST thing I want to be reminded of is that stupid Monorail and the $400/yr car tabs that went with it.

Unless I can have a few beers and take a baseball bat to one of the cars.

Hey hey! I wouldn't go teasing Seattle about the Monorail. They take that boondoggle seriously.

And now for another episode of "How many stupid farking Farkers will make the same dumbass joke without bothering to look to see if anyone else already made that dumbass joke?"

Almost a dozen. Wow. You guys really are lame.

I'm still sour that a very well-connected, very well-funded, but most of all very small minority managed to keep publicly trashing the Monorail project and forcing everybody to vote on it over and over until they wore people out and got what they wanted.

I was looking forward to using it, and using it frequently. Walking downtown in Seattle is a two-part experience: you get to enjoy the really neat city, and simultaneously suck in all the exhaust you can possibly inhale from all the dot-commer's SUVs on the constantly clogged streets 8 feet away.

Along with the monorail, Seattle should get off its ass with two things that'll really improve the place.

One, pass a city ordinance requiring or, ahem, 'compelling' all the stupid freaking ground level-only pay-n-park lots to go multilevel--the should have to either build up, down, or both. Sitting on that kind of space just to hold a couple dozen cars when they could handle four or five times as many with multi-floor garages, plus office or commercial space stacked on top, is ridiculous. Some people might biatch and moan about property rights, but I'd support a mandatory ordinance because that's what it would take. As it is, those lot owners have no incentive to expand. Why? Because by keeping their lots small, they limit the total parking availible in the area, which is already so overloaded that people will damn near kill each other just to pay their $10 at those owner's lots. God bless American capitalism, when we have to force people to quit profiting off of bottlenecking the smooth function of an urban center, rather than just asking them nicely or not having to ask at all.

Two: either elevated and/or sublevel sidewalks, or similar measures for the streets to actually seperate the pedestrian and traffic flows. I can't count how many times I nearly got run over or saw somebody else almost get it when I spent a lot of time walking around the city during college. I don't even want to think about what sucking in that much exhaust all the time did to me.

Besides those two and Tunnel-izing the Alaskan Way Viaduct (which the city has no choice and will HAVE to do because it's falling apart), the Monorail was going to be a big plus to everybody who has to go from point A to B in the city without a car.

Stupid asshat special-interests. At least we're still getting some light rail... still not quite the same though.

They tried this in Ogden and North Haverbrook, and boy, did it put them on the map.

*Ogdenville, sorry.

Terrible greenlight, the headline is utterly incorrect.

HeWhoHasNoName
I'm still sour that a very well-connected, very well-funded, but most of all very small minority

I supported it at first, but the project turned out to be very poorly planned. That's what killed it, not a small minority of special interests.

Over the past 4 years, I personally paid close to $1000 towards the project. Complete waste of money.

That headline references the Simpsons.

omg thats my bar!

I'd say this bar can do at least Warp five.

serutan

I too live just blocks from the site they're talking about. Had the monorail gone up it would have passed right by my building on California Ave.

I agree that something needs to be done to help the situation out in Seattle, but I agree that the monorail is/was not the solution. I do like the light-rail that Sound Transit is constructing currently and I think that once it's put to use between the airport and downtown that further expansion will be just around the corner. Sound Transit appears to be light years ahead of King County Metro as far as innovation is concerned.

seatown75
HeWhoHasNoName
pretty sure we are still stuck paying that tax due even though the project has been axed. (off to google)

/sorry for threadjack

Kurtist I do like the light-rail that Sound Transit is constructing currently and I think that once it's put to use between the airport and downtown that further expansion will be just around the corner.

I was skeptical at first with running light rail through the rainier valley. But given how many run down neighborhoods are going to get revitalized as a result I now think it was a better choice than going up the duwamish.

follow-up:
monorail tax to end june 30th http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002944914_webmonotax21.html
looks like we'll be putting of the new car purchase until july!
/again, sorry for t-j

Kurtist

Yeah and let me say, "May the force be with you!"

seatown

I was skeptical at first with running light rail through the rainier valley. But given how many run down neighborhoods are going to get revitalized as a result I now think it was a better choice than going up the duwamish.

Agreed. Connecting the rainier valley to the airport and downtown and NOT requiring the bus system should be a huge plus for those communities. I would still love to see light rail eventually reach out to the east side, Tacoma, and Everett. Maybe come to West Seattle? I would love to commute from home to work in Tukwila everyday and not have to shell out $3 plus dollars a gallon.

Leonard Nimoy's work here is done.

AprillaDeVille

monorail tax to end june 30th

Woo hoo!

Mad_Radhu
As far as I'm aware, the only serious options that can do the same traffic work as the Viaduct are a new multi-level highway, and a tunnel.

I watched the Cypress Structure flop down on top of cars and people during the Bay Area '89 quake. As far as I'm concerned, I will not set foot on another 'new and improved, we swear!' Cypress-style stacked highway.

btw, I was referring to IAmSuperBeast, not Kurtist...sorry for the misquote Kurtist

I call the big one bitey.

HeWhoHasNoName: I watched the Cypress Structure flop down on top of cars and people during the Bay Area '89 quake. As far as I'm concerned, I will not set foot on another 'new and improved, we swear!' Cypress-style stacked highway.


Were you on the ground watching it happen, or on the structure itself?

Just curious.

Used to live in San Jose/Santa Clara from 1978-1983. I remember the US101/I-280/I-680 interchange with the flyover ramps over that intersection, that didn't actually connect to anything because they ran out of money or something like that.