[vette6387]

Michael Savage is right! Liberalism is a disease, and Seattle’s Liberal Government is in Stage 4.

[EnglishOnly]

“The order was placed for street cars that are likely too big for the tracks and the maintenance barn”

and people say smoking dope is harmless? Here are the leaders of a major city ordering street cars that are too big for the tracks. How ignorant can these city leaders be?

[tallyhoe]

You ought to see Lite Rail. It was suppose to cost 4 Billion now it’s pushing 54 billion with no end in sight. Never will pay for itself!

[AlaskaErik]

Construction costs for new and upgraded streetcar and light rail lines are skyrocketing well above estimated costs.

A good rule of thumb is that the actual cost of a light rail system is six times the initial estimated cost. And ridership numbers will be much lower than initially projected.

[Slyfox]

Bike lanes? It rains, what, 9 months of the year in Seattle?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Gee, stupidity runs or ruins, or both, Seattle, just like Portland, only with less class.

It’s a beautiful city. It’s just the junkies, commies, and incompetent Democrats who are screwing it up.

They make Portland seem like a Marxist paradise.

[PIF]

At least Seattle’s trolley goes somewhere, unlike Milwaukee’s which goes around the same four blocks ... ridership is likely in the single digits, other than the homeless making it their new mobile home ...

[zeestephen]

Compared to the estimated cost of our “Light Rail” system, the street cars and bike lanes are budget rounding errors.

The last number I saw for Light Rail was $10 billion. It increases $1 or $2 billion with every new estimate.

They started building almost three years ago, and they still have like 4 more years to go.

Here on the Eastside, we have had major downtown streets and access roads completely torn up for two years, with almost no visible progress.

South of Bellevue they have destroyed at least a hundred acres of green space and trees for rail tracks.

And when they finally finish, they estimate that Light Rail ridership will reduce rush hour traffic by 5,000 cars.

We could have accomplished exactly the same goal by increasing bus routes - for 10% of the cost and maybe 18 months of construction.

Total madness - and not one Democrat or Seattle news source ever utters a word of criticism.

[SkyPilot]

The trite expression "Speed Kills" is erroneous.

Speed does not "kill." Differential Speed kills.

Roads that are designed for automobile use, where 99.8% of the usage is by automobiles, are inheriently incompatible with sharing traffic with bikes, streetcars, rickshaws, skateboards, or anything else traveling at a snail's pace with automobiles.

Cyclists are required by law to observe the same rules of the road as automobilies, but many do not. They fail to yield, make improper turns, and disregard traffic signs and lights. Not to mention that their slow speed impedes the entire system.

Bike lanes in cities are few. They cause more trouble for automobile traffic because there is no way to really design them to not impede 99.8% of the other traffic.

[fruser1]

It’s not about infrastructure, it’s about getting money to your buddies and back into your pocket.

[cyclotic]

I think that incompetence reigns throughout the entire liberal transportation scheme supply chain.

Several years ago, I worked for a company that was approached by a light rail car manufacturer about using our products on their cars.

I’m not an engineer but was constantly finding problems that their engineers failed to find.

Several years later, these same idiots called back threatening to sue us to the tune of $100,000 per car because our product failed.

Over the course of a couple conference calls, I figured out about 8 things they did wrong and against our written instructions and those of some other vendors.

I finally said “If you had done it the way we told you, we wouldn’t be having this conversation would we?” That shut them right down and they went away.

A few months ago, I was talking with a guy who was a consulting engineer on the project and was in the conference call. He told me that he saw one of the rail engineers and my name came up. They still hate me. Oh well.

[Chickensoup]

The same leftist boondoggle is happening in Maine where taxpayers are forced to pay for AMTRACK service that has been expanded up the coast of maine.

No one uses it. There is a better private coach company.

[Daniel Ramsey]

Nothing compared to HART in Honolulu.

[CodeToad]

Denver is busy installing bike lanes, taking away streets. They’ve decided they want to kill off ALL motor vehicle traffic in downtown Denver.

Also notice that all light rail are spoke and hub to and from Denver and not between other areas.

There needs to be a limit on geographic area voting. Large cities have more representation in legislative bodies so they scarf up all the funds for transportation.

[SkyDancer]

Until they run out of taxpayers money - then what?

[Gritty]

How has no one been fired for this?

Why should anybody be fired? Their intentions were good. That's all that counts in Liberal Land.

[elbook]

this is the usual leftard idiocy

basic negligence. the people involved should be fired (but somehow wont be).