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And you thought Metro's $2 billion plan is expensive...

I meant to pass along this article from June earlier, but it got misplaced in the chaos that is my email inbox. Just to show that everything is relative, Metro's $2B plan looks like a paragon of good sense and taxpayer stewardship in comparison to this plan by Seattle to build 14 miles of monorail. Get ready for it. $11 billion. You read that right. Read about it here.

Fun with math: divide it out and you get a staggering $149,000 per foot of monorail. Wow.

I'll pass along just one quote, from the Washington state treasurer:

"You've got to be kidding me," Murphy said yesterday. "That's ludicrous."

I think that just about sums it up.

Thanks to reader Richard Johnson for the link.

posted by Tory Gattis @ 10:30 PM