Quote Originally Posted by Eden View Post
??? 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
That was pretty much my reaction too -- it was a citizen's initiative and then this woman was blaming the mess on some perceived "outsider(s)". Maybe it said more about her than about Seattle, I don't know.