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. more ›

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. more ›

Today, it's $4.5 million, as reported by the Seattle P-I and Seattle Times. A year ago, the Seattle Times reported, unquestioningly, the "news" that: more ›

Bus Rapid Transit as an alternative to actual mass transit sucks. It's what anti-transit people offer to cities to ridicule their efforts at light rail or monorails. "You want to move people around without cars, eh? How about this ridiculous thing, then? You can't say no! It isn't a car! Look, it can move people from poor inner suburbs to job sites just as well as elevated trains and it costs nothing so in two years when you shut the hell up and buy another car we can just sell off the buses and the right of ways we grabbed and be done with it." It's like a game of transit chicken with each side wondering how the other could possibly be serious. But then, a few of these systems have actually been implemented. more ›

Ding dong the car tax's dead. The wicked car tax is dead. Well, not officially dead like you'll get out of paying it if your car tabs come up this month, but the Monorail Project has started the process of ending the tax on June 30th, due to the fact that all those sexy properties the Project swept up to make way for the Green Line have been selling like hotcakes. Uh, hotcakes that you force private residents to sell you for a mass transit line you don't intend to build and then sell back to the public for more than what you paid for them. That kind of hotcakes. more ›

A new shuttle bus service is offering Port Townsend residents service to Seattle twice daily seven days a week. It seems that there's been local demand for some transport to the city from that area that doesn't involve cars and Olympic Bus Lines answered the call. Particularly interesting to Seattlest is the reverse ability to get from the city to Port Townsend without a car. more ›

Greg Nickels made Rolling Stone. Is his new disc out? No. Is he being heralded as one of our country's leading environmentalists? He is! He's one of the "Warriors and Heros: Twenty-five leaders who are fighting to stave off the planetwide catastrophe." Uh, no mention of his significant role in the killing of the green line, but the magazine loved his motions towards Kyoto. Seattlest had an opinion of the mayor's Kyoto commitment back in February: more ›

The Seattle Monorail, which has already endured more obloquy than Lindsay Lohan's dietician, is in trouble again. more ›

All the extra money you've been shelling out for car tabs will actually be used for something. The P-I reports this morning that the Seattle Monorail Project has reached agreement with contractors to build the Green Line, from Ballard to West Seattle. The first passengers would board in 2010. more ›

Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken! more ›

When we were young, Seattlest used to try to negotiate our allowance. It never worked. Upon growing older, and becoming veterans of negotiation with car dealers, landlords, and girlfriends, we realized why. We lacked leverage. There was no other set of parents offering a better deal. The only negotiating tactic we really had was to whine and stomp our feet. more ›