Last week the Antiplanner failed to note that Seattle voted down a massively expensive light-rail plan. Sound Transit, the agency that is at least 100 percent overbudget and several years late on its initial light-rail project, somehow thought it could persuade voters to fund the most expensive light-rail system in the universe.
The proposed system was going to cost anywhere from $10.6 billion to $150 billion depending on who you believed. The lower figure was the capital cost in 2002 dollars; the higher was the total tax that Seattlelites were expected to fork over before the system would be completely paid off.
