{"id":2928,"date":"2004-11-02T23:15:13","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/03\/monorail-is-a-go-again\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T13:43:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:43:24","slug":"monorail-is-a-go-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/02\/monorail-is-a-go-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Monorail is a go (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9893,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\\\/transportation\\\/197981_monorail03.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.seattlepi.com\\\/transportation\\\/197981_monorail03.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>On the bright side, though, Seattle voters have (for the <em>fourth<\/em> time) <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/transportation\/197981_monorail03.html\" title=\"Support lines up for monorail\">given the local monorail a go-ahead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Chanting &#8220;Let&#8217;s build it, let&#8217;s build it,&#8221; Seattle monorail supporters last night celebrated the defeat of a measure that could have stopped the 14-mile line in its track.<\/p>\n<p>  City voters yesterday endorsed the project by a comfortable margin &#8212; the fourth time a monorail issue has come before the electorate in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>  They defeated Initiative 83, a measure that would have killed the proposed line by banning its construction on city streets.<\/p>\n<p>  With 99 percent of precincts reporting, 63 percent of voters rejected I-83 yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>  The vote followed one of the costliest city ballot measure campaigns ever, and the vote counts showed I-83 losing by a wide margin.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice to have some good news to wake up to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DVarious Artists%2526albumTerm=Disco Death Race 2000 (full mix)%2526songTerm=Disco Death Race 2000 (full mix)%26partnerId%3D30\">Disco Death Race 2000 (full mix)<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DVarious Artists%26partnerId%3D30\">Various Artists<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DVarious Artists%2526albumTerm=Disco Death Race 2000 (full mix)%26partnerId%3D30\">Disco Death Race 2000 (full mix)<\/a><\/em> (1996, 1:13:48).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the bright side, though, Seattle voters have (for the fourth time) given the local monorail a go-ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}