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New Seattle trolley too big
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In Memoriam   Location: Tacoma Wa Joined: Tue Oct 8, 2013 Posts: 16607 Real Name: George Bailey 
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Like this surprises anyone...$52 Million for trolley cars that wont fit the existing track.
Quote: Seattle’s new streetcars may be too big to fit tracks, maintenance barn, mayor’s office says The Buffoonery Abounds... Quote: The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) ordered 10 new streetcars in the fall, at a cost of $52 million, as it planned to link the two existing streetcar lines with a new line along First Avenue through downtown. But Durkan halted that work in March and ordered an independent review of the project’s finances, after a Seattle Times report said costs to operate the new system could be 50 percent higher than SDOT had publicly stated. And going to cost FIFTY PERCENT MORE TO OPERATE! https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... ance-barn/ _________________ "Remove one freedom per generation and soon you will have no freedom and no one would have noticed."......Carl Marx "Let us Cross the river and sit in the shade of the trees" .....Stonewall Jackson T. Jefferson "....the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it's natural manure" |
| Wed Jul 25, 2018 11:14 am |
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Site Supporter  Location: Idaho, Land of the Free Joined: Wed May 1, 2013 Posts: 22302 Real Name: Vick Lagina
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I would appear the various DOT's hire dolts and seemingly have zero accountability within their ranks... fuck off $52 million on this kind of blunder... oh well, shuffle on to the next blunder. When was the last time you heard of a WADOT, SDOT or any-DOT official being canned. If they do, it's kept on the down-low.
_________________ “I really don't care, Margaret." ~JD Vance |
| Wed Jul 25, 2018 11:20 am |
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 Site Supporter  Location: Faxon, OK Joined: Sat Mar 19, 2011 Posts: 18059 Real Name: Chuck
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They will just double the gun/ammo tax to fix it.
  _________________ "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." Thomas Jefferson "Evil often triumphs, but never conquers." Joseph Roux |
| Wed Jul 25, 2018 11:22 am |
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Site Supporter  Location: Tacoma Joined: Sat May 4, 2013 Posts: 6476
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What a bunch of cornholers
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| Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:27 pm |
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In Memoriam  Location: Mukilteoish Joined: Sat Mar 26, 2011 Posts: 11589
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When they put in the downtown Seattle bus tunnels they ordered new buses that wouldn't fit in the tunnels.
Buses were too wide to pass each other on turns. So they put them up on surface streets and just bought different ones. _________________ NRA Endowment Member. How did they know my member was well endowed? |
| Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:01 pm |
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Site Supporter Location: Idaho, Land of the Free Joined: Wed May 1, 2013 Posts: 22302 Real Name: Vick Lagina
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I can't wait to see the trains run across I-90.
Years ago WADOT paid $5 million dollars to a Kansas consulting firm to study the feasibility of light rail on a floating bridge. The consulting firm concluded that the trains were too heavy and the dynamic motion of a floating bridge wasn't suited for light rail. WADOT, unsatisfied that they didn't get the answer they wanted, conducted (an equally expensive?) in-house study that came up with the recommendation to proceed. *I* won't be driving across that bridge the first few rush hours of operation and will probably just make alternate travel plans as a habit, espe3cially after seeing them sink a perfectly good floating bridge back in the 90's due to their incompetence. _________________ “I really don't care, Margaret." ~JD Vance Last edited by jukk0u on Wed Jul 25, 2018 2:10 pm, edited 1 time in total. |
| Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:06 pm |
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Site Supporter Location: Faxon, OK Joined: Sat Mar 19, 2011 Posts: 18059 Real Name: Chuck
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jukk0u wrote: I can't wait to see the trains run across I-90. Years ago WADOT paid $5 million dollars to a Kansas consuling frim to study the feasibility of light rail on a floating bridge. The consulting firm concluded that the trains were too heavy and the dynamic motion of a floating bridge wasn't suited for light rail. WADOT, unsatisfied that they didn't get the answer they wanted, conducted (an equally expensive?) in-house study that came up with the recommendation to proceed. *I* won't be driving across that bridge the first few rush hours of operation and will probably just make alternate travel plans as a habit, espe3cially after seeing them sink a perfectly good floating bridge back in the 90's due to their incompetence. Just like duck boats in a storm. This won't end well physically, or financially. _________________ "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." Thomas Jefferson "Evil often triumphs, but never conquers." Joseph Roux |
| Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:13 pm |
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In Memoriam Location: Mukilteoish Joined: Sat Mar 26, 2011 Posts: 11589
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Seems like these RTA projects always run out of money without much actual construction being done.
_________________ NRA Endowment Member. How did they know my member was well endowed? |
| Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:18 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: Nova Laboratories Joined: Tue Oct 25, 2011 Posts: 19173 Real Name: Johnny 5
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The 52 Million dollar question is....
Is anyone surprised? _________________ NO DISASSEMBLE! Thomas Paine wrote: "He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." |
| Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:55 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: Maple valley Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2011 Posts: 3694
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Ya just gotta wonder..... when are people going to wake up?
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| Wed Jul 25, 2018 3:10 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: Everson, WA Joined: Sun Jan 6, 2013 Posts: 28460 Real Name: Ace Winky
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Next time some liberal softie asks why communism won't work this time, just whip this out. The most retarded shit is the machinations of centralized government. The local press is all on board with these Seattle dumbfux being our saviors.
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| Wed Jul 25, 2018 3:26 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: Spanaway WA Joined: Wed Jul 6, 2011 Posts: 6493 Real Name: Hugo Stiglitz
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they should raise the price of Car Tabs to pay for it.......................
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| Wed Jul 25, 2018 3:30 pm |
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Site Supporter Location: Everson, WA Joined: Sun Jan 6, 2013 Posts: 28460 Real Name: Ace Winky
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zombie66 wrote: they should raise the price of Car Tabs to pay for it....................... And there it is. _________________ Why does the Penguin in Batman sound like a duck? Because the eagle sounds like a hawk. |
| Wed Jul 25, 2018 3:34 pm |
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 Location: Try-Citys Joined: Sat Sep 28, 2013 Posts: 87
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My fav thing about WaGuns is reading the dumfkery that comes out of Seattle to see what may be coming east.
Some of the gun stuff is ok too. :) |
| Wed Jul 25, 2018 3:44 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: Auburn, WA Joined: Tue Oct 18, 2011 Posts: 2200
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Well, at least it wasn't a pedestrian bridge.
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| Wed Jul 25, 2018 5:43 pm |
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