Tell The City Council You Want Monorail
The usual well-funded monorail opponents are giving one last try to stop us from building a new monorail in Seattle. The last step is for the Seattle City Council to approve the use of city streets for monorail tracks. It is crucial that you let your voice be heard and tell the City Council that we've voted 4 times for monorail and you want it built. more...
We Must Build The Monorail
There are times where communities face critical tests: do they build for the future, or retreat to the past. This is one of those times for the citizens of Seattle. more...
Monorail MVET Growth Analysis
The SMP says the monorail tax will grow at 6.1% per year. The mayor has a more pessimistic view of his economic policy and says it will be 5% per year. We've got the details on the actual difference between the two.
Help Build the Monorail Message
We'll be publishing some print-your-own flyers and brochures here on the site. Help out by adding your suggestions to the comments in this thread. more...
We Must Build The Monorail
There are times where communities face critical tests: do they build for the future, or retreat to the past. This is one of those times for the citizens of Seattle. more...
Mayor and City Council Defy Will of the Voters
Once again the denizens of Seattle City Hall are trying to kill the monorail. more...
Equity Office's Anti-Monorail Activity Causes Employee to Resign
There's a triumvirate of wealthy property owners downtown that are bankrolling the anti-monorail campaign. One employee has had enough of her employer's questionable ethics and has resigned her job. more...
More Endorsements for the Monorail
The campaign to save the monorail from greedy landlords and corporations continues to rack up endorsements. The anti-monorail campaign is stuck at 0. more ...
WAMU Hit Hard By Boycott
Last week's protest against Washington Mutual's anti-monorail activities was a huge success, resulting in the removal of twice 10 times as much money from the bank than what they've spent to fund lies about the monorail. more ...
Boycott WAMU
Although the anti-monorail campaign is late as usual with their public disclosure filing, reliable sources indicate that Washington Mutual has donated $85,000 to the effort to permanently ban the construction of a monorail in Seattle. It's time to boycott WAMU. more...
Monorail Grassroots At Work
The monorail has won 3 elections due to the combination of a great, common sense idea and the dedicated efforts of ordinary, inspired, grassroots volunteers. See how they're back at work this campaign season. more ...
Get a Break From High Gas Prices
Analysts say that the age of cheap oil is over. If that is the case, why would we approve an initiative that will ban the construction of rapid, electrically powered monorail anywhere in the city? more ....
Anti-Monorail Campaign Breaks Copyright
The anti-monorail forces have made another ethically questionable, if not downright illegal move. Their recently launched television commercials feature video that was stolen from a monorail supporter's website. more ...
WAMU Turns To The Dark Side
A buildthemonorail.com exclusive: It appears that another billion dollar downtown business has turned against Seattle and the monorail. more...
Anti-Monorail Campaign Gets Extreme Makeover
In the last several weeks this website has cataloged the distortions, outright lies, and right-wing agenda of the wealthy forces working against the monorail. It looks like that may have had an effect. more...
More Ethics Problems for Monorail Opponents
The anti-monorail campaign has been characterized by two things: distortions of the facts and deceit about who is actually behind their efforts. buildthemonorail.com has filed an official ethics complaint that alleges further illegal activity. more...
Monorail Winning the Endorsement Race
A surprising thing is happening so far in the campaign to save the monorail from right wing extremists. Many of the groups that opposed the monorail in 2002 are now supporting it in 2004. more...
Are Monorail Opponents Simply Anti-Transit?
Monorail opponents say that they oppose the monorail because of their distaste for taxes and elevators. Is it possible that they're also opposed to all forms of mass transit? There's some interesting new data that could answer that question. more ...
Another Recall Lie Exposed
The Seattle Times recently quoted Tim Wulf as saying that his involvement started with his registration of their website domain last year. A simple internet search has revealed that it was actually registered by the chairman of the King County Libertarian party. more...
The Truth About Selig
The monorail opposition is almost entirely funded by a single wealthy property owner. Who is Martin Selig and why does he hate the monorail? more...
Pro-monorail Campaign Launched - Funding, Volunteers Needed
The official pro-monorail campaign has started up to defend the Seattle Monorail from its attackers. It's crucial that you send them any funds you can to run the campaign and any time you can give to help win in November. more ...
What would I-83 do?
Curious about what the anti-monorail initiative would actually do? Get the facts here. more...
Don't Let Tim Eyman Style Anti-Tax Politics Kill The Monorail
Do monorail recall leaders really represent Seattle? Or are they in fact nothing more than local versions of Tim Eyman? more...
I-83 Is An Illegal Initiative
Why vote for something that will only be thrown out after the election due to it's blatant illegality? more...
Monorail Opponents Lie about "Grassroots" Campaign, Fined by Ethics Commission
Remember back in the summer when the monorail opponents such as Liv Finne were collecting signatures and claiming the work was done by their "grassroots volunteers"? Turns out it was a huge deception campaign. more...
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Get a Break From High Gas Prices
Contributed By Martin Nix
Want to know the reason why we are building a monorail? It's simple - just go look at the price of gasoline. It keeps heading up, and the experts say we'll never see it get back down to the levels of a few years ago. Everyone is bidding against each other, and the oil producers love it. The big advantage of monorail: it runs on electricity. Our electricity in Seattle comes primarily from hydro-power - an energy resource made in the state of Washington.
Three quarters of the oil used in the US is coming from overseas. And practically everywhere there is oil, there is a war. Chechyna, Russia, Equatorial Africa, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia are all major oil producers where political instability threatens the availability of oil. Hurricane Ivan just did a lot of damage to the oil facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. This winter is predicted to be harsh, driving up demand for heating oil.
Like it or not the era of cheap oil is over. We're already at the point where the price of gasoline is affecting family budgets and the strength of our economy. The oil shortage is coming with vengeance.
There is a very good reason why the monorail is being built. It will put efficiency, convenience, and cost effectiveness into the bus system. That way people can ride the bus a short distance and then jump on the monorail. Right now Metro operates a lot of buses as express buses that act as a slower, more expensive version of a monorail. By rerouting the buses to feed passengers to the monorail it will free up buses to provide more frequent service to our neighborhoods.
Monorail is absolutely essential to alleviate over-crowding on the buses. As the price of gasoline skyrockets more and more people will be trying to squeeze onto our already standing-room-only bus system. We need more transportation options.
Seattle is the only city on the west coast without quick, efficient mass transit. San Francisco has BART. Portland the Max. Vancouver Canada, the Skytrain. An integrated bus-train system like this works very reliably.
Get the Message. The gasoline shortage has arrived, and will kick you in the gas tank. Riding the monorail means you don't have to buy as much gasoline for when you drive.
Cars cost a lot. Asphalt costs a lot. Free parking isn't. We should all be thinking ahead 5 or 10 years to the time when the price of oil has doubled again and it's costing us that much more to drive around the city. Let's consider the future and not throw out our last chance to break our dependence on our cars.
Build the monorail....OR WALK.
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West Coast cities with Mass Transit
by Dan Austin on 10/25/04 |
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| ....and don't forget to add to the list...Los Angeles which has been building a subway system, and San Diego which built it's first light rail line in 1984...20 years ago when WE should've started, too. | |
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