Posted Thu, Mar 3, 8:51 p.m.

KateMartin, I would like to correct your suggestion that there was no public input for the Families and Ed Levy. In fact, Mayor McGinn led a major effort to collect public comments for the levy and with his Youth and Families Initiative. Over 3,000 people participated in this public process ...

Posted Fri, Aug 7, 1:23 p.m.

loudquack96 actually said that, "This project bears almost no resemblance to the big dig. Estimation and construction methods have changed dramatically since then." Yeah, let's talk about that and include the two broken down digging machines stuck underground on the Brightwater project. And those machines are tiny compared to the ...

Posted Fri, Aug 7, 11:14 a.m.

Publicola reported on a 1996 letter to the New York Times, when then-Chicago resident Joe Mallahan argued in favor of building more prisons and imposing longer sentences on inmates. In the letter, Mallahan—identified as M. Joseph Mallahan—wrote: "...My Christian ethics would answer no. I will respect the first politician who ...

Posted Fri, Aug 7, 7:41 a.m.

State law says Seattle residents have to pay for tunnel cost overruns. You then tell us that Mallahan has said city residents should not absorb tunnel cost overruns - what's he going to do about that? He says he will manage the project so there won't be any cost overruns. ...

Posted Thu, Aug 6, 12:37 p.m.

The title of this article should be, "Why we should stick to the most expensive and polluting transportation option even though we do not have a solid estimate of the actual cost and we have no plan to pay for the massive cost overruns"

Posted Thu, Aug 6, noon

Hi Unter, That's exactly the same thinking that we heard when we were fighting the Roads and Transit ballot measure which tied 182 miles of ugly sprawl highways to light rail. People like you said we had to just suck it up and accept that the decision was the best ...

Posted Thu, Aug 6, 11:10 a.m.

I haven't heard a compelling reason why Seattle should have to pay for all of the cost overruns on this 4.24 billion dollar boondoggle. Or how we are going to pay for it. According to Oxford Professor, Brent Flyvbjerg we need to expect 30% cost overruns. That's well over a ...

Posted Mon, Aug 3, 9:37 a.m.

Since you haven't decided and said that you are paying attention to endorsements, here is a link to the Sierra Club endorsements: http://cascade.sierraclub.org/endorsements/2009 enjoy!

Posted Mon, Aug 3, 9:02 a.m.

I think Mallahan would easily lose in the general election because of the troubling news on his company's strong anti-union policy and their poor record on LGBT issues. It makes him very vulnerable in Seattle. On the one hand he's claiming to be a powerful force at T Mobile, and ...

Posted Mon, Jul 27, 11:57 a.m.

Take a look at the I-5/Surface/Transit Hybrid Scenario recommended after a year of study on this issue - http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/NR/rdonlyres/FAF9612A-D0D4-4D0C-824D-8C879E457D0B/0/AWV_I5SurfaceTransitHybrid_FactSheet_Dec08.pdf Another good site is www.tunnelfacts.com The tunnel is not going to keep us out of traffic problems, it doesn't have any downtown exits and it lets cars out in the middle ...

Posted Mon, Jul 27, 11:26 a.m.

Above ground options are a lot more likely to meet cost expectations compared to an experimental tunnel with a digging machine the size of a ferryboat. A digging machine that is not even in existence yet. How is that brightwater tunnel progressing right now?

Posted Mon, Jul 27, 11:10 a.m.

ivan, Your proposal is to have everybody still driving around in individual cars in the next 50 years? Our population is going to double. There absolutely is not enough physical space for your idea to be realistic. Our geography demands that we start getting serious about providing alternatives to the ...

Posted Mon, Jul 27, 10:39 a.m.

Oxford Professor Bent Flyvbjerg published a large study of cost overruns in 258 mega-transportation projects like our tunnel. His study indicates that the backers of these projects suffer from "delusional Optimism" or they are knowingly lying to the public. The tunnel was REJECTED by a stakeholder advisory committee because it ...

Posted Mon, Jul 27, 10:11 a.m.

ChrisB is right, not only has a tunnel of this diameter never been attempted, there is not even a machine built to dig it. http://www.thenewstribune.com/topstory/story/822857.html The tunnel sympathizers want to lead us into a hole of dept and make it impossible to afford public transportation or anything else this city ...

Posted Mon, Jul 27, 7:17 a.m.

I really don't get how tunnel supporters can be saying they don't expect cost overruns. How can they even be confident that their cost estimates are accurate with only 1% of the design I hesitate to say they are lying - but if not, are they crazy optimistic? Daft? There ...