あげ。From what I can see about seattle's history with, it has a long history of failed ballot measures for public transportation, (the most notable being the '68 and '70 votes for "Forward Thrust" and the '88, 95', and 07' votes for light rail) not to mention the numerous projects that have died in the middle of myriad studies (The rest of Seattle's 80's trolleybus expansion project, and several monorail proposals) and this is despite having a type of urban geography that would ensure high ridership on any dedicated rail-based mass transit that could be built, (This is why Central Link has been built to accomodate 4-car LRV's and has so much grade separation, there are literally assloads of people that are projected to ride the northern leg of the system, and Link as a whole is expected to have somewhere along the lines of 360,000 riders a day by 2030, which by American standards, especially American standards for Light Rail, is mind-boggling.) again as others have pointed out, you'd probably need some significant institutional change to get an earlier monorail project going, but I'd pick a monorail project to allow survival for, I'd pick the Green Line project of recent years, despite the high costs behind it, it would've certainly helped to build on the mass transit portfolio being built currently by Link and Sounder. (And lastly about the '95 and '07 votes they may have failed, but people went back to the polls a year later on near identical measures and passed them, (with the '96 going on to create Sound Transit, the organization that would create Link, the '08 would help bring into existence ST2, a massive LRT expansion program that promises to bring much change to the region over the next decade) and despite the quagmire it does seem as if the region is slowly moving in favor of expanding Public Transit even more.)