can anyone more knowledgeable than I enlighten me as to the exact technical/legal details between: * joint & several liability, as required in the RFP, *...
Chad: We are saying the same thing (I think). Based on the ECONorthwest MVET revenue and growth projections, by 2045 SMP will have collected about $4.3B....
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2005/01/31/tidbits1.htm l?page=1 "Heard & Overheard" Could lawsuit derail Monorail? Five days before the...
Above the fold in this morning's PI. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/210192_monorail01.html Bill would permit the agency to take more than 40...
a natural question that comes to mind with the recent talk of 40 years of debt service is: Are we financing enough capacity now? i.e. if we're spreading...
while absolutely correct semanticly speaking, if this were to be pursued it would indeed be a courageous interpretation of both the spirit and intent of the...
... obviously, in what's been released of the TM "not-yet-a-real-proposal" (NYAP), there's no problem with future capacity. - they have proposed double beam...
wow, long posting, two quick notes: - was thinking more about stations and fleet purchases and less about single beam (seems more of logistics/service hurdle...
Board members and Director Horn, this e-mail is quite dense, [kind of like its author :) ] but please bear with me. Important conclusions are marked with...
Looks like it won't be smooth sailing for SB 5534. From the article: Some members of the Senate Transportation Committee, however, questioned the wisdom of...
Looks like the SMP and FVO have not been able to come to terms and are headed to court. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002167717_monorail02m ...
... indeed. here's what my hunch is on the issue. (just a hunch.) * bond buyers are worried about the MVET projections -- sure, the projections look adequate,...
actually you're last point does not hold. if that were true, Wall St. would be saying here's the standard market rate at 30 years. Like it or not, Wall St....
Forget about the Team Monorail proposal raising the bar, the State Legislature just did. The Cascadia proposal is going to have to be the best thing to ever...
but if the MVET projections do come in as expected, they can defease the bonds in 30 years rather than 40 and the total project cost will indeed be lower,...
perhaps, that is indeed the optimistic scenario (payoff your mortgage early goes the theory), however, given that Wall St. has a little bit of experience in...
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0506/050209_news_monorail.php Team Monorail Is Back And unlike the official Cascadia Monorail bid under consideration, ...
* Tacoma Link is free because a study found that the cost of buying and servicing the fare collection equipment and collecting and handling the fares was...
... system. ... When the SMP was considering whether to use the honor system or gates, it was noted that if you design the stations for gates, you can always...
... looking ... my point was not about SMP, it was about Link. *** what has SkyTrain experienced such that they're thinking about moving away from the honor...
The article in the Weekly speaks to once again to something that from day one has thoroughly impressed me about Team Monorail's approach - their efforts to go...
Nope Dan it ain't 30,000 feet up. In fact it looks very slender and low, and fitting with the surrounding fishing and sail boats. I can only imagine how nice...
I know I'm from all the way across the country but, looking at the map included in the article, I can't see why the shipyard has to close just because the MR...