They said monorails can't be switched. Faced with the fact that a Japanese monorail has switched many times a day for more than 30 years they found new distortions. Sensitive Seattle, they said, although cluttered with diesel buses and divided by monstrous freeways, would not tolerate ugly monorail structures. The 1962 monorail is clunky, true, but newer monorails are graceful additions to cityscapes worldwide. Rubber-tired monorails run quieter than steel wheels on steel rails.
Current distortions are financial.
Burkhart's wild guesses of monorail costs are as iffy as ST's light rail costs. For one thing monorails do not require costly tunnels. The monorail needs a fair hearing. I-53 will provide that. It is useful to look at Senate hopeful Maria Cantwell's House voting record compiled before she was turned out of office by the voters of the 1st District in the mid 1990s.