Quote Originally Posted by NbyNW View Post
My first year in Seattle, the Monorail was dying a slow painful death. I remember a conversation where one woman I was chatting with felt it was the wrong thing for Seattle because "East Coast intellectuals shouldn't parachute in here and all of a sudden be an expert on what Seattle needs."
??? I grew up on the east coast (Pittsburgh to be exact) and I always thought the monorail was a bad idea.....
Things are definitely done differently out here. We did not have citizen's initiatives where I was growing up. I find it to be a bit, ah, inefficient.... I mean we vote in people we expect to be experts (or to be able to hire experts) to make the hard decisions...... ask the citizens and getting a rational or quick answer is not always (often not) possible, but maybe that's just the east coast in me talking