BTW, I added Florida to the topics because St. Petersburg just approved a new very expensive monorail plan, despite the objections of their own transportation planners.
Don't tell Willie Green.
It can't be!
And this figure doesn't even include the cost of the big metal "M" that an engineer will have to use as an anchor after the brakes fail.
I've got bad news, that has nothing to do with Geico...
Oh heck, it's only money. The liberals will get it from the greedy and the rich and the voters in Seattle will love it. They'll love it so much the same liberal dimocraps will be back in office next term.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
And in NYC the antis went banana over less than $1 billion for the West Side Stadium which is now dead.
Boondoggle ping!
Now does that get financed by the 9.5 cent gasoline tax increase passed earlier this year by the fraudulent demoncRAT gov (Fraudoire) and demoncRAT-controlled legislature or does that get paid by the $3.8 billion tax increase to the general fund again passed by the infamous demoncRATS earlier this year after gutting people's initiative 601 requiring a supermajority (60%) to pass any new tax increases?
Congress approved construction of the project was US $ 2.5 billion. Final costs: US $ 14.6 billions
I am shocked.......(yawn)......liberal Seattle gets screwed by their own politicians.........
Now I got that Simpsons song in my head.
They must have consulted the Masachusetts Big Dig pooh-bas
Lyle Lanley: Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine, Bona fide, Electrified, Six-car Monorail! 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!
"The project will bring 2,100 jobs every year for construction, she noted."
Ever heard of broken window fallacy? Maybe this explains why Willie Green supports it.
No, they won't - they'll just move out of Seattle. ;)
"The project will bring 2,100 jobs every year for construction, she noted."
You could do the same thing by hiring a group of people to break car windows and another group to repair the same car windows. Voila! Employment for a bunch of people!