Monday, August 06, 2018

On the Wrong Track

Durkan’s office also said on Tuesday that “concurrently with KPMG’s review” they’d learned the new streetcars, ordered in the fall for the expanded system, are bigger than the city’s current streetcars, raising questions about how they would fit with existing tracks and maintenance garages. [More]
Fortunately, it's not their money.

"Progressive" urban government. Is it any wonder we love it so?

1 comment:

FedUp said...

It sounds like what happens when the mayor makes guesses about what the engineering staff might have gotten wrong in specifying the new trams. I'd tend to go with the engineers knowing more about what they're doing than the Mayor of Seattle knows.

Heck, I'd bet my dog knows more about most things than the Mayor of Seattle.
They're both bitches, but my dog isn't stupid.

https://seattletransitblog.com/2018/07/31/mayor-raises-dubious-engineering-concerns-center-city-connector/