Posted Fri, May 7, 10:02 p.m.

"North Link has six miles of twin-tube subway tunneling not yet started" Is there any absolute need for such tunnelling? What's wrong with ground running or shoring up existing bridges and running on these? And is twin-tube tunnelling the best, most efficient, and cheapest form of tunneling possible?

Posted Fri, May 7, 9:59 p.m.

"the Mercer Island bridge has a limited life span. It won't last forever. I think that life time is estimated at 75 years." The Brooklyn Bridge was built in 1883 and it's still around, some 127 years later...the Manhattan Bridge is more than a century old... while the Mercer Island ...

Posted Fri, May 7, 9:55 p.m.

A fifth cause of cost problems: debt itself, which is expensive. Debt requires the payment of interest. This means more money has to be spent by the organization than it would without taking out a loan. Perhaps the monorail should've been built on layaway. Debt also drives up prices, because ...

Posted Fri, May 7, 9:52 p.m.

"A recent sample of 40 Central Link light rail runs indicates delays of 3 minutes or more in about a third of trips..." Is anyone analyzing the causes of those delays and adjusting or fixing those causes? If not, why not?

Posted Fri, May 7, 9:50 p.m.

Question: do our freeways have any farebox recovery? No? Well, there are gas taxes, but our cars do not necessarily use the roads those taxes pay for all the time. Moreover, different cars have different gas consumption rates. It's safe to say, except for toll roads, the highways have no ...