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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Monorail Winning the Endorsement Race
The opposition to the monorail in 2002 generally fell into two categories:
• The usual 20% of people who always vote against transit and against taxes
• Voters who generally vote for progressive causes but were against the monorail for either aesthetic reasons or due to a perceived threat to Sound Transit.
Now in 2004 that second group of opponents has been falling away, leaving only a core group of right wing extremists to continue fighting rapid transit in Seattle.
Here's who has endorsed the monorail so far in 2004:
•34th District Democrats
•36th District Democrats
•37th District Democrats
•47th District Democrats
•King County Democrat Central Committee
• The Sierra Club
•Green Party of Seattle
•Seattle Mayor Greg Nichols
•The Seattle Times
So far buildthemonorail.com hasn't been able to find any groups that have endorsed the anti-monorail campaign. Maybe Tim Eyman or the Libertarian Party? Let us know below if we missed anyone.
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Transit X
by Blair on 10/1/04 |
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The Green Line and the Central Link light rail line will work well together. They are close together only for a little over a mile in the downtown area, precisely where high capacity transit lines SHOULD converge. Away from downtown, the two lines will diverge, eventualy forming a large "X" reaching out toward the four corners of the city. Transferring between the two lines will involve a short walk (only one block at Yesler); locations where street level businesses will thrive on the foot traffic. By rejecting the short sighted "recall" of the monorail, we can get started NOW building three of the four legs of this X. The grade separated fourth leg of this X will then be demanded by residents of the northeast part of the city. |
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Championship Transit
by Marcus on 10/14/04 |
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| Wow, The Seattle Storm showed us how it is done. It's done as a TEAM. We have this opportunity to start having more independence from oil and automobiles, and *GREAT* transit in Seattle and eventually the entire region. We must say NO to I-83. Saying NO to I-83 is saying YES to the great city that Seattle is becoming. | |
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Opposition contradictions...again.
by Rodney Rutherford on 10/6/04 |
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So, the recall folks propose building the green line with light rail. So, what's their plan? It certainly isn't on Sound Transit's agenda, as they're focused on regional transit instead of serving our neighborhoods. Do they want to run trains on the surface of the Seattle Center grounds, or are they want to pay for a tunnel the whole way? (Considering their anti-tax constituency, I doubt they'd want to pay for that, either.) Are they going to take away two traffic lanes from the West Seattle Bridge, or are they going to build a separate West Seattle Bridge exclusively for light rail? (elevated LRT is surely too heavy to run atop the existing bridge as has been planned for the monorail). How will they fit light rail into the neighborhoods of Ballard and West Seattle? Do they plan to take away car lanes and parking, or would they opt to destroy the small businesses along the lines in order to shove light rail down the middle? It quickly becomes obvious: they don't have a plan. They have no consensus. Their only plan is obstructionism. The recall folks say the monorail isn't integrated with the regional transit system. And yet they also say the monorail overlaps with the downtown bus tunnel, inadvertently acknowledging that it IS, in fact, integrated with light rail! They say the monorail isn't tied in with the ferries, but yet the monorail station will be three blocks closer than the closest light rail station. And the monorail's integration with King Street Station will provide a much closer connection with Sounder and Amtrak than light rail ever will. Their hypocracy continues in identifying themselves as pro-transit and pro-light-rail, and yet most of their arguments against the monorail are either anti-transit, or can be equally applied against Sound Transit's light rail line. Once again, the naysayers have no answers. Heck, they don't even have a vision! Their arsenal exclusively consists of fear, uncertainty, doubt, and Martin "Astroturf" Selig's deep pockets. |
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RE: Championship Transit
by Mark on 6/28/05 |
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First let me start by saying I am a big "right-wing" supporter for the monorail, both in Seattle and throughout our region. Contrary to popular belief not all "right-wingers" oppose the monorail or even mass transit for that matter. Many of us support the monorail including those of us in public office. I feel the monorail is long overdue, but just to clarify one thing in your comment. Though monorail uses nice, clean electricity to operate, most electricity is produced using dirty coal and oil. Not all electricity that we use here in Washington comes from hydroelectric plants here in Washington. This is because we are part of a larger electric grid that covers multiple states, including ours, and the electricity that travels throughout that grid that we use is produced from various sources such as oil, coal, nuclear, solar, wind and, of course, hydro. Either way I still think monorail is the answer and not light rail. Visit: www.KingCountyMonorail.org |
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Municipal League Endorsed "Yes" in I-83
by Mike P on 10/31/04 |
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| In fairness, you should correct your website reference to indicate that the Municipal League has endorsed voting "yes" on I-83. | ||
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