Since my 1997 Mayoral campaign, and every year through last year's
Congressional campaign, I have been an outspoken advocate for the monorail,
making my contribution to its becoming a reality today. As a Board Member
with a strong technological background and as one who envisions a
county-wide system, I will be an advocate for the right choices to ensure
that the monorail succeeds, not as a pet project for appointed political
insiders, but as a better and faster way to move around the region than the
automobile. I will ask the project bidders: how will you design the system
to allow for a future upgrade to magnetic levitation, which will make the
system faster, quieter, easier to maintain, and profitable? How will you
design cable-stayed suspension downtown to reduce the pillar count? Also, we
should save the bus tunnel, and make the Sound Transit light rail line a
monorail line instead, which will join the Green line at King Street
Station. I will also advocate for a political restructuring that results in
a unified tri-County system, consisting of local buses and monorails, and a
high-speed intercity maglev system along the freeway medians. By building a
system that is better than driving for most people, those who still need to
drive will enjoy less congested roads, and we as taxpayers will save
billions on planned road and bridge projects, which won't be needed. Nor
will we need a third runway at Seatac, if we advocate in Olympia for a
maglev line to Portland and Vancouver, B.C. About me: As a Ph.D. physicist,
I worked developing alternative energy in the U.S. magnetic fusion energy
program. Presently, I am an attorney in private practice, and have two small
businesses: the Executive Business Center, and Silq Networks, an ISP,
providing broadband Internet to apartments.
Since my 1997 Mayoral campaign, and every year through last year's
Congressional campaign, I have been an outspoken advocate for the monorail,
making my contribution to its becoming a reality today. As a Board Member
with a strong technological background and as one who envisions a
county-wide system, I will be an advocate for the right choices to ensure
that the monorail succeeds, not as a pet project for appointed political
insiders, but as a better and faster way to move around the region than the
automobile. I will ask the project bidders: how will you design the system
to allow for a future upgrade to magnetic levitation, which will make the
system faster, quieter, easier to maintain, and profitable? How will you
design cable-stayed suspension downtown to reduce the pillar count? Also, we
should save the bus tunnel, and make the Sound Transit light rail line a
monorail line instead, which will join the Green line at King Street
Station. I will also advocate for a political restructuring that results in
a unified tri-County system, consisting of local buses and monorails, and a
high-speed intercity maglev system along the freeway medians. By building a
system that is better than driving for most people, those who still need to
drive will enjoy less congested roads, and we as taxpayers will save
billions on planned road and bridge projects, which won't be needed. Nor
will we need a third runway at Seatac, if we advocate in Olympia for a
maglev line to Portland and Vancouver, B.C. About me: As a Ph.D. physicist,
I worked developing alternative energy in the U.S. magnetic fusion energy
program. Presently, I am an attorney in private practice, and have two small
businesses: the Executive Business Center, and Silq Networks, an ISP,
providing broadband Internet to apartments.