After rejecting it once, Seattle voters got fooled into voting for a light-rail line whose cost doubled almost immediately after the election. Then Seattle voters got talked into a monorail line whose costs also exploded after the election. Fortunately, they were able to vote their way out of that one.
Now Sound Transit, whose light-rail costs have blown up and whose commuter-rail trains carry far fewer riders than projected, has a new plan: another 50 or 60 miles of light rail.
