Positive Signs For Seattle's Citywide Monorail

Seattle monorail planners have tentatively adopted a $1.23 billion plan to expand the monorail from one to 14 miles.

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June 4, 2002, 12:00 PM PDT

"They would pay for this expanded system -- which some see as one way to deal with increasingly snarled traffic -- with a 1.4 percent citywide motor-vehicle excise tax... If construction began next year, officials said, a system could be operating by 2007. Planners assume trains leaving stations at four-minute intervals during rush hours and at eight-minute intervals at other times. The system would cost more than $25 million a year to operate, ETC staffers estimate, and would require operating subsidies during the first few years it ran. They estimate the system could be self-sufficient by 2012 if premium fares were charged for special event trains and advertising were sold at the 19 planned stations."

Thanks to Laura Kranz

FULL STORY: Citywide monorail proposal on track

Tuesday, June 4, 2002 in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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