Then, in 2016, gullible voters agreed to spend another $53.8 billion building 61 more miles of light rail. In 2008, voters agreed to spend $17.8 billion on a 36-mile expansion of light rail plus 10 more miles of commuter rail. Seattle-area voters created Sound Transit in 1996, approving $3.9 billion in spending on 19 miles of light rail, a 1.6-mile streetcar in Tacoma, and 73 miles of commuter-rail lines. Seattle already had the most-expensive light-rail system in the nation, but the latest costs are completely insane. Most of the increase is for the cost of building 62 miles of light-rail lines. Notice that the artist didn’t project any decline in automobiles or driving. Sound Transit, the region’s rail transit authority, has raised the projected costs of projects built between 20 from $54 billion to $142 billion.Īn artist’s impression of a planned Seattle light-rail line. Mariya Frost, of the Washington Policy Center, has alerted me that Seattle should be added to the list of cities with transit projects gone wild.
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