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Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Group trying to stop monorail turns to the Web
Hoping to ride the Internet like Howard Dean's presidential campaign, a group has begun trying to organize a recall drive to stop Seattle's monorail project.
The group -- which lists no members by name -- is asking people to say on its Web site, monorailrecall.com, whether they'd be willing to sign a petition putting a recall measure on the city's ballot. Once the group collects enough "prepetition" e-mails to qualify for the ballot, it plans to formally file an initiative with the city to put in before voters.
The group, among other things, criticizes plans to build one track instead of two along some portions of the 14-mile route, to go through instead of around the Seattle Center, and the use of elevators instead of escalators in some stations.
Most initiative campaigns -- including the three monorail measures approved by Seattle voters -- first register with the city before beginning their petition drives. But the group on its Web site says it is running the "prepetition" campaign because the 90 days it has to collect enough signatures to qualify for the ballot is less than other initiatives.
Richard Borkowski, head of a pro light-rail group and a critic of the 2002 initiative that created the monorail campaign, acknowledged being part of the group trying to put the effort together. He said others are reluctant to come forth for fear of being publicly attacked by monorail supporters.
The group has not publicized itself but asks visitors on the Web site to pass the word and whether they're willing to buy newspaper ads.
Monorail spokesman Paul Bergman, however, said, "The voters have voted three times to build the monorail. Everything we hear is that they want us to get it done."
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