Notes on spaces seen through windows
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Friday, October 14, 2005 Changes to monorail watch sites
OnTrack.org, the watchdog group that has long offered a critical look at the Seattle Monorail Project's often rosy predictions, announced last week that the group is suspending operations until after the election.Pro-Monorail activists have meanwhile set up an elections site to supplement the kinds of campaign material that has long been a staple of the official monorail site which seems to have wisely suspended most updates to its site for now. There is another pro-monorail campaign site at www.monorail.org and another at http://2045seattle.org/. A group has organized to oppose the monorail's November ballot measure according to the Seattle Times. It's called "No on Monorail Proposition No. 1" according to the Times and is headed by lawyer James Tupper. The "No" group has a bare-bones website at www.nomonorailprop1.com. An existing site called "What does it look like" offered optimistic renderings of what the guideways might look like along a few portions of the route. Unfortunately, although the site discusses the problems posed by the required catwalks, many of the renderings were done before SMP added the railings and walkways along the route. (The walkways, required for the safety of passengers, make the already-large guideways even more imposing along the streetscape.) In July, Seattle Downtown Association (which has since announced its opposition to the latest monorail ballot measure) released renderings of the massive caged structures along downtown streets that were proposed in the June SMP contract documents. Technorati tags: Seattle monorail Seattle Monorail Project Seattle Boondoggle posted by WebWrangler | 10:20 AM | Link | 0 comments
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