Where the Monorail Would Have Been

We've been locking our keyboard in a drawer to keep ourselves from putting up any "this is the weekend the green line would have begun service" posts, both because it's been done and because it's history. Yes, it would have been great to have, but we decided against it. If there's anything like a blog to mark the day in the distant future when we'd have it paid off we'll be impressed.

But a reader emailed a photo set of the nineteen Seattle sites that would have held monorail stations that's so cool we couldn't resist. Our understanding is most of the photographs were shot before the monorail plan fell apart, but there's an emptiness to them that seems to have fortold the future. In the universe of these photographs there aren't any monorail tracks or cars, or platforms bustling with the young and hot-looking inventors of the future waiting to be whisked to their fun and creative work environments. Instead there's reality, and it's kind of pretty.

Make sure to see the whole set.