Garrett, let me try to show you the progress by starting with some minor earth-shattering news for you.

I voted against the Monorail.

(I'll wait while you get over your shock)

What did it for me (and all those who will help send the Monorail to a defeat next week) is the finance plan. I can't fathom paying that much interest for a line that won't even make it past Magnolia. I still maintain mass transit of any kind is a good idea. But we approved a plan that was too heavy on borrowing (of course unknown to us/me
at the time) and I can't even imagine what the cost would be to build the four lines we were originally dreaming about at that interest rate.

So now for the second shock, which I'm sure won't be surprising to you at all.

I want to keep the license tab tax and send it to Sound Transit to keep expanding light rail.

"Expand?!" Garrett exclaims to no one in particular since he's sitting in front of his computer, "What do you mean
expand, they haven't built anything!"

See this picture?

That's Light Rail being built by the Airport, you may have noticed it and thought it was a road. All built with a debt ratio that's far more sane that the Monorail.

Not convinced? Drive down Rainier Ave or Airport Way and see how fast they're moving. It's actually pretty hopeful to see this stuff up close...something is actually getting done!

It's already paid for (yes, I said paid, as in they don't need $$ from you to finish it), and will open in three years. Check out the animations of the line operating AT THE AIRPORT and once and for all end your confusion about
will it/won't it get there.

I know, you're going to bitch about how expensive light rail is. Well, yeah, it's not cheap when we've delayed
doing anything with talk-talk-talk for thirty years too long!

Even putting aside this, think about the thousands of cars transit (Sound, Metro, Pierce, Community) takes off the
road every day. Without these, there's no way you'd be crossing the lake (which, and I say this with my tongue
firmly in cheek, sometimes wouldn't be such a bad thing!).

But in any case, let's take that cash, put a station back in First Hill, get West Seattle and the northwest seattle
connected, and send this train over to the eastside to pick up your penny-pinching booty. It's way cheaper and less
destructive than building that new freeway Kemper Freeman (and yes, your man Irons) wants to build.

Your final demand, show me the roads.

My how the contradictions multiply. You want a really good argument for why you, the poster child of Young Republicans of Washington should vote No on 912? Read this editorial:

Then, let's build you some roads, me some transit, and you and me sing kumbaya as we pass each other downtown.

Ian