Sound Transit 3, the light rail initative, can bring mobility to Seattle
This article completely fails to mention how much of this initiative is mired in corruption and inefficiency.<p>A portion of ST3 is to pay for ST2 and ST1, which both went over budget. In those cases, union and industry donated massive amounts to work on the initiative to get even bigger contracts after.<p>It is projected that ST3 will carry <i></i>less than 3%<i></i> of the local traffic capacityou, at a huge cost.<p>We need VC thinking here, and more proposals with a clear eye on the ROI.<p>If my city dropped 5.4 billion on buses (a tenth of cost of ST3), we could have much more capacity that could be provisioned in a more dynamic way. That could be ready in a few years.<p>Instead we get rail in 25+ years at a massive cost now.<p>Having spent the last week in DC and been stuck on the Red Line for a trip that took 3x as long as normal, I am not convinced a rail line with it&#x27;so single points of failure is the best solution.<p>Transit is cool, but I am firmly of the opinion that this train wreck of an initiative is <i></i>NOT<i></i> the way forward and will vote NO.