Dear Wanna Be Mayor McCheese [1]
So went spent about 6 years debating what to do about the viaduct and finally came up with a solution. Maybe it was suboptimal, but at least we came up with something and we're working on building it. Running on the platform of, "Ummmm, on second thought," might feel very Seattle to you but it's just serving to piss a lot of people off who are sick of talking about this while we're at risk of the viaduct collapsing. Following that up with talking about revisiting the monorail debate (only now it'll be surface light rail that probably no one will ride because it'll have the same traffic issues as cars) isn't helping.
I don't like your opponent too much either, but thank you for clarifying the election for me. At least Mallahan isn't promising to prolong the debates that already cause people to want to chop their heads off rather than hear one more ad on the topic. You're like that guy who waits until the end of a 4 hour meeting to say, "Excuse me, can we talk about items 1-4 again? I have some questions." Good luck again in 4 years; hopefully by then you'll understand why people hated you in '09.
Love,
Zzyzx
P.S. Yes, removing freeways does just cause cars to reroute around the delays; the problem is that they reroute to other cities that continue to build them. If you're a fan of public transit, you want as many businesses to be centralized in downtown Seattle as possible. Instead, they're all sprawling all over the place, causing people like me who live on a bus line and who would love to take transit to work having to drive. The main result of replacing the viaduct with a road with dozens of traffic lights will be to expedite the moving of all business to the burbs, turning Seattle into a residential/tourist town. Is that really greener?
[1] OK, fine, McGinn... whatever.
I don't like your opponent too much either, but thank you for clarifying the election for me. At least Mallahan isn't promising to prolong the debates that already cause people to want to chop their heads off rather than hear one more ad on the topic. You're like that guy who waits until the end of a 4 hour meeting to say, "Excuse me, can we talk about items 1-4 again? I have some questions." Good luck again in 4 years; hopefully by then you'll understand why people hated you in '09.
Love,
Zzyzx
P.S. Yes, removing freeways does just cause cars to reroute around the delays; the problem is that they reroute to other cities that continue to build them. If you're a fan of public transit, you want as many businesses to be centralized in downtown Seattle as possible. Instead, they're all sprawling all over the place, causing people like me who live on a bus line and who would love to take transit to work having to drive. The main result of replacing the viaduct with a road with dozens of traffic lights will be to expedite the moving of all business to the burbs, turning Seattle into a residential/tourist town. Is that really greener?
[1] OK, fine, McGinn... whatever.