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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Are Monorail Opponents Simply Anti-Transit?
The Stranger had some interesting information on the anti-monorail campaign last week. It turns out that the monorail's opponents are so well funded by a single downtown developer that they can afford to pay their "volunteers" over $1,700 to drive and park their cars in support of the campaign.
Do any of the opponents ever take public transit? Do they realize that a majority of people that work downtown get there on a bus? Have any of them personally experienced the slow, late, standing-room-only buses that serve as the only form of transit in this crowded city?
I ride the #3 bus all the time, and everyone I know that has any experience with transit thinks that we're about 30 years behind schedule in creating a fast, convenient rapid-transit system in Seattle.
The green line will provide the first true rapid, high-capacity transportation system for Seattle. We've just got to fight off the right-wingers one more time to make it happen.
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Outrage from a Right-Winger
by Richard Dill on 10/1/04 |
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The tone of this website needs adjusting. There are many of us, so called right-wing, Republicans out here strongly in support of the Monorail. You would do better toning down your anti-right-wing rhetoric and focus on the issue that if I-83 passes there won't be a monorail in Seattle, EVER! The economic development the monorail will support in Seattle is an often overlooked "right-wing" issue that resonates well. It isn't always about political correctness and environmental purity. The monorail will finally show that financially sustainable, mass, rapid transit is actually possible. Another "right-wing" issue is the dislike of government subsidies for ineffective solutions. Almost 75% of a bus ride is publically subsidises, 100% of a Tacoma light-rail ride is subsidised. The numbers for Central Link are not known yet, but we can expect the subsidy to something other than zero. On the other hand the SMP, at least on paper, looks financially viable with no subsidy. Some 'right-wing" things to think about that make the monorail attractive to this group, whose votes are needed so aleniating them is not a good strategy. |
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Simply Anti-transit?
by Bob Hollowell on 10/2/04 |
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Recently, while we were scratching our respective heads about "Why are They SO opposed to monorail," someone suggested that people who own downtown parking-garages might fear a loss of income with any rapid-transit into downtown. None of us, however, knew any dollar figures. Except, that it is expensive to park downtown. For what it's worth. |
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RE: Outrage from a Right-Winger
by Robert Allyn on 10/2/04 |
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| I agree with you. I am not 'right wing', but I think the generalization hurts the cause. You will just alienate moderate 'right wing' voters that are for the monorail. While the people running the recall campaign may be extreme right wing, I am more worried about convincing the moderates who may vote against it for parking, route concerns, or not understanding the project. Keep up the good work on the site, just tone down the retoric a bit, and be careful of generalizations. The truth speaks for itself here. | ||
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