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Help! w/Anti-Light Rail arguments ... | 27 comments (27 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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Sounds like he's talking about Seattle (the reference to "Sound Transit" is a giveaway, as well as the fact that there is a major transportation tax act on the ballot there this fall).

A light-rail tunnel is being bored beneath Beacon Hill, just east of downtown Seattle. Seattle is a VERY hilly city and light rail needs some tunnels to be an effective method of transportation.

And the world will live as one

by Montereyan (robert at calitics dot com) on Fri Aug 31st, 2007 at 10:59:36 AM EST
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Oh, sorry, yes he is. The "coalition for effective transport solutions" (sorry if I misremembered the name) is the cookie cutter citizens anti-rail lobby which developers and other stakeholders in the roadworks lobby put together whenever there is rail funding to fight off.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Fri Aug 31st, 2007 at 12:25:01 PM EST
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