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Seattle Is Taking Its Urban Transportation Back To The Future

Hotel Booking Seattle is going to the Jetsons, and building the largest monorail system in the nation. The movement to build a monorail was founded by a frustrated cabdriver named Dick Falkenbury. The ballot measure passed by the slimmest of margins, 50.23 percent or 868 votes, tallied Tuesday.

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Travel Agency Seattle already has a one-mile stretch of monorail, built for the 1962 World's Fair and still popular with tourists.

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Cheap Hotel The newly approved monorail, however, will be a real commuter line. Phase One, the Green Line, will run for 14 miles and connect neighborhoods such as West Seattle and Ballard to downtown.

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Flight Booking The Green Line, budgeted at $1.75 billion, will be paid for by a 1.4 percent tax on motor vehicles; or $140 a year for a $10,000 car. Construction is to begin in 2004. The monorail cars will buzz along at treetop heights going as fast as 50 mph, and be held aloft by pylons as small as 36 inches in diameter. Eventually, the plan is for five lines covering 58 miles.

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Travel Agent By William Booth
Washington Post - 11/24/2002

Topic: Transportation

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