Does Seattle ever get anything right


Seattle’s Trump-baiting Mayor Jenny Durkan may have ordered the wrong streetcars for the city’s transit system. As the Seattle Times reports, it’s the latest transit spending boondoggle to beset the Pacific Northwest community.

The mayor has already prepared the city’s residents for the possibility that the $52 million spent on the project could all go down the municipal drain.

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) wanted the 10 new streetcars in order to merge the current system, where the lines are separated. But the ones that they ordered are probably the wrong size to fit the tracks, as the new streetcars are substantially larger than the old ones.

“It appears the error will require either a change order for design of the streetcars or incur new costs for construction of new or retrofitted maintenance barns,” wrote Lisa Herbold, a Seattle councilor, in a municipal blog post.


Cost overruns have already characterized the streetcar project. Durkan initially announced that it would cost $150 million but that price tag soon rose to $200 million.

As Fox News points out, Durkan’s time as mayor has been marked by is hostility to many policies of the Trump administration, including illegal immigration, climate change and abortion.


http://dailycaller.com/2018/07...or-wrong-streetcars/

Hey no problem convert the streetcars into shelters for the homeless. I am sure it is OK with the taxpayers.

I remember when they launched the South Lake Union Trolly. They promptly changed the name when the acronym found its way onto tourist items, such as teeshirts, with the saying Ride The S.L.U.T.

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Durkan’s time as mayor has been marked by his hostility to many policies of the Trump administration, including illegal immigration, climate change and abortion.

If you can't efficiently run your city... point your finger elsewhere and shout "SQUIRREL!".
None of the things he is stirring people up about Trump have anything to do with running a city. The exception, of course, is illegal immigration, which if they had less of it they could clean up the city.

Normal taxpayers would be outraged, but...you get where I’m going here.

Wonder how much of it was federally funded?

Democrats could fuck up a steel ball with a rubber mallet.

Too busy drawing straws.

Maybe they can recycle all the syringes as straws

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Too busy drawing straws.

These are the people building the Billion dollar tunnel through glacial silt and a fault.

"The Seattle fault bisects the city west to east, from Alki Point in West Seattle, through downtown, along the I–90 corridor and all the way towards Issaquah."

Blame it on evil corporations and hit them with another tax increase. Follow the script!

Just one more in a long line of examples of malfeasance.

Riddle me this, in the three county region there is no less than four different transit outfits (King Co. Metro, Pierce Co. Transit, Community Transit, and Sound Transit) they all have separate administrative hierarchies, facilities, etc.

They all interact with overlapping service areas, cooperative/complimentary routes, use joint bus stops in areas of service overlap, accept each other’s fare passes and provide transfers to each other.

Why can’t there be a single, coordinated regional transit authority and have a single administrative overhead? Oh, because they are all little fiefdoms and more taxpayer money can be wasted by having multiple administrative entities, and multiple/competing taxing authorities.

A single, coordinated agency might be able to put together an efficient mass transit system, but that is actually counterproductive to their goal of keeping everything as screwed up as possible and then pointing to that as a “reason” for more projects and taxes.

At least this mayor is just fucking the taxpayers, not little boys and the taxpayers.