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Thursday, October 23, 2003
Conlin: Send monorail around Seattle Center
The chairman of the City Council's transportation committee, Richard Conlin, yesterday threw his support for running the planned monorail line around the Seattle Center instead of through it.
Conlin also pressed the council to take the stance before monorail officials make a preliminary recommendation next month.
Such a stance would be significant because the council must give the Seattle Monorail Project permission to go through the center. Conlin joins council President Peter Steinbrueck, who also opposes going through the center and wants the council to say so.
However, several council members are sitting on the fence, and Steinbrueck apparently does not have enough votes yet to call for a vote.
Proponents of going through the campus say the thousands of people passing overhead would be good advertising for the center.
In addition, going around the center on Mercer Street would leave a whole in the Experience Music Project, which was built around the current Monorail.
But Conlin sided with those who say the monorail would destroy the parklike feel of the center, and busy Mercer Street is a more appropriate place for the line.
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