On the bright side, though, Seattle voters have (for the fourth time) given the local monorail a go-ahead.

Chanting “Let’s build it, let’s build it,” Seattle monorail supporters last night celebrated the defeat of a measure that could have stopped the 14-mile line in its track.

City voters yesterday endorsed the project by a comfortable margin — the fourth time a monorail issue has come before the electorate in recent years. They defeated Initiative 83, a measure that would have killed the proposed line by banning its construction on city streets. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, 63 percent of voters rejected I-83 yesterday. The vote followed one of the costliest city ballot measure campaigns ever, and the vote counts showed I-83 losing by a wide margin.

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p>Nice to have some good news to wake up to.

iTunes “Disco Death Race 2000 (full mix)” by Various Artists from the album Disco Death Race 2000 (full mix) (1996, 1:13:48).

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