Man, Seattle can not get over the monorail. Not the new monorail that was going to hasten our commute into the Utopian future - We seem to have gotten over that one. It's the monorail from Westlake Center to the Seattle Center that we won't give up on; Monorail Classic or Monorail 1.0 or whatever you want to call that leftover from the World's Fair. It was a good little train once upon a time, but we've come to the realization that it's time to take it out behind the wood shed and put it down. It can join up with its aborted friend the Green Line in monorail heaven (monorail life begins at conception, apparently), but its days of suggestively penetrating the EMP should be officially declared over any day now.

Just as soon as one more fire/stall/emergency evacuation occurs. From the Seattle Times:

The one-mile, elevated train line completed a reliability test Sunday night by running on time under a normal schedule for five days, said Tedd Snyder, an engineer with Booz Allen Hamilton, who led a recent technical review.

He and Shelly Yapp, the redevelopment director for Seattle Center, both said this morning they consider the two trains ready to go.

City and monorail officials are eager to get the trains running in time to serve tourists and shoppers during the holiday season.