Kennedy, Mary Gin

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Dear Commissioner, I am disturbed but your aggressive opposition to the proposed
arena. The city of Seattle and King County have a golden opportunity to obtain hundreds
ofmillions of dollars in private investment into
a public facility. We are in tough times
and that level of private funding will create 10003 of construction jobs and be
a shot in
the arm to the region. Once the arena is completed additional monies will be brought into
03Comments     this area helping in many different areas. Trafc is
an issue even without the arena. I
think the manner you voice your concern has the potential to not only derail the
arena
project but also any chance to get the roads improvements you desire made. Can I
suggest you change your strategy and embrace development and the arena and express
your trafc concerns but in a manner that suggests your willing to work with all parties
involved to make this a better region for all. Thanks for
your time, Eric Miller

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Subject:                 FW: Tweet re POS using tax dollars for "PR campaign against levy"

Series of Tweets from Jason Puckett of KJR.

JasonPuckettKJR Please don't scream "if Ballmer/Nordstrom R involved, they should pay for it themselves!" Port of
Seattle brings in $3 billion annually in subsidies and they CAN levy taxes on their own to
pay their bills. Also, is it wrong if
they are using that $100 million (more)
in tax revenue to pay for their PR campaign against the arena?? Essentially, YOU, the taxpayers R paying for their
campaign. U good w/ that?

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Subject:                 FW: SODO Arena


From: Brandon Moen]SMTP:BRANDONMOEN@COMCAST.NET|
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 10:31:15 PM
To: Bryant, Commissioner Bill; Albro, Commissioner Thomas;
Creighton, Commissioner John; Holland, Commissioner Robert;
Tarleton, Commissioner Gael
Subject: SODO Arena
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i am utterly disgusted by the stance, arrogance, and complete lack of logic displayed by the Port of Seattle in response to
the proposed Seattle arena.

Let me point out the obvious to you:

1-  You do not own, nor control 5000. If you want to control every land use in SODO, then i suggest you get out

your paycheck and buy all of it.
2-  Public decision making, particularly those decisions that would bring such joy to our community, cannot be
made based on you MAYBE adding night shipping, or POSSIBLY adding thousands of jobs. Just because
you have
grandioso plans sitting on a shelf somewhere doesn't mean this arena project should be scrapped.

You are elected officials, with an obligation for the greater good, not just making decisions based on POTENlAL impacts
to POTENTIAL plans that MIGHT possibly happen in the future lF there is interest and lF time permits, and lF we
POSSIBLY have the money.
Being obstructionists solely for the sake of being obstructionists is not acceptable.

1 am still looking forward to your own traffic analysis of all of the supposed traffic impacts that you are so worried about.
i guess we are supposed to believe your rhetoric over professional engineers?

Enough already. Join reality and be part of a solution.

Sincerely,
Brandon Moen
Lifelong Puget Sound Resident

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SEATTLE, WA 98119
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To: City Councilmembers
Mayor McGinn
Dow Constantine
Larry Phillips

cc: Port of Seattle Commissioners

The Queen Anne Community Council has asked that the 15th Avenue West and
new Alaskan
Way be designed to accommodate freight and other vehicles moving through this important
north-south route. The proposed arena adds another challenge in reaching this goal.

We believe the Port's need to move freight should take priority over the development of
a new

arena and entertainment district if they are in conict. In addition we are concerned that the Key
Arena's utilization rates may be impaired by the taxpayerfunded establishment of an expanded
entertainment district in SODO. This would hurt many small businesses in the Uptown Urban
Center and the City's nancial investment in its facilities.

Businesses dependent upon the Port of Seattle's facilities generate 33,000 jobs in King County.
They pay an estimated $450 million in taxes annually, far more that those that may be paid by
arena activities and they do not remove property frOm the tax rolls.

The Port's goal is to add 100,000 new jobs over the next 25 years and to increase cargo volumes
to 3.5 million TEU's per year. This all most certainly will require night operations and an
estimated 11,400 truck trips compared to 7,000 today. Most of those intermodal connections
will use Atlantic, East Marginal Way, Spokane and Hanford streets, many of the
same streets
that would be used to access the proposed arena.

We urge you to avoid a rush to build and carefully plan for the trafc that supports high-paying
jobs at the Port facilities.

Sincerely

Ellen Monrad
Chair, QACC


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Subject:                 FW: Regional Transportation Website Visitor Request

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l business hours and seen the mess it is there already? I made business parts runs for
years in the industrial area, and know it well. Yesterday I attempted to access 4th
Av. S and Lander. I found: The roads full of semis hauling containers from the
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. port, semis going to the port to load containers, delivery trucks just trying to do
business in Seattle's industrial core. Invisible signage. Blocked intersections,
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} blocked turn lanes. Long backups at every light. Then I imagined 16 coal trains a
i day through there. "Oh but it's a stadium district, won't be any problem." Come on,
people, get real. Understand that Seattle's industrial district depends on road and
i rail access. It's bad with existing projects. I believe it is seriously threatened by this
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wet dream of a stadium. Further, the average signing contract for the top 10 NBA
players is $18,000,000. NBA owners and commissioners, past and present, are all
: multimillionaires. And we are still being asked to tap our tax base for another de
luxe playpen? If I were an executive with Maersk Lines or COSCO I could see
how this will play out, and would move to Tacoma in a heartbeat. Then the whole
i industrial district could
go the way I see happening on lst Avenue South, without
any objections: ofce/condo/retail, boutiques, bars and restaurants. Plenty of work
in construction while it's being built, then a lot of entry level jobs to service tourists
and workers. Panem et circenses. Let's party! Constance Knudsen- fth generation
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Subject:                 FW: John Kane (Kane Environmental, Inc.) - Proposed New Basketball Stadium

From: John KanelSMTP:JKANE@KANE-ENVIRONMENTALCOM]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 3:10:20 PM
To: Seattle City Council
Cc: Tay Yoshitani; Tarleton, Commissioner Gael;
Holland, Commissioner Robert; Albro, Commissioner Thomas;
Bryant, Commissioner Bill; Creighton, Commissioner John
Subject: John Kane (Kane Environmental, Inc.) - Proposed New Basketball Stadium
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Dear Councilmembers:


| ask that you take a serious consideration of Port of Seattle CEO Yoshitani's letter dated July 18, 2012 to the Seattle
City
Council and Metropolitan King County Council. He has addressed extremely important issues that need to be evaluated
regarding the impact of the proposed new stadium to the Port of Seattle operations. He also addresses the requirements of
a
full SEPA process.

Thank you.

Regards,

John

John Kane
CEO/President
KAN E
:
- emwaommrm it":
3815 Woodland Park Avenue North, Suite 102
Seattle, WA 98103
ph: 206 691 0476 cell: 206 715 2779
fax: 206 675 0650


Kennedy, Mary Gin

Subject:                 FW: Hansen Arena Proposal - Bad Location - Not Affordable

From: VINCENT KOSKELAISMTP:V.KOSKELA@Q.COM|
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 1:16:16 PM
To: Tarleton, Commissioner Gael
Subject: Fw: Hansen Arena Proposal  Bad Location - Not Affordable
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From: VINCENT KOSKELA
To: council@kingcounty.gov
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 11:21 AM
Subject: Hansen Arena PrOposal - Bad Location - Not Affordable

JUNE 23,2012

KING COUNTY COUNCIL

Council Members:

Over $650 Million of public money financed the construction of "Safeco Field". Over $577 Million of public money
financed the construction of "Qwest Field". That is over $1.2 Billion for just 2 Professional Sports Stadiums. The
owners
of these sports franchises could have and should have paid these costs. Now, an additional $200 Million of public money
is being sought to finance a new Basketball/Hockey Arena
on a clearly unsuitable SODO site. What is Steve Ballmer's
financial contribution to this proposed project or is he simply "window dressing" ? Hansen
was unable to answer that
question or why any public money is needed.

In 1993, the public was told that the $73 Million re-model of "Key Arena" would be "state of the art" and would last
for
over 20 years. 9 years later the public was told the facility was outdated. David Stern proclaimed "Key
Arena" unsuitable for NBA basketball. He and a "carpetbaggar" named Clayton Bennett ushered the Sonics to
Oklahoma City. The City of Seattle took a "financial bath"
on the remodel and subsequently received a tidy $ sum from
Clayton Bennett to erase that debt. By the way, if "Key Arena" is unsuitable for NBA games, how can David Stern allow
the facility to be used for 2 years during construction of a proposed
new Arena?

Later, an election followed where it was deemed that the city must make a profit on any future Arena undertaking. King
County was not a part of that vote. That election has no relation to the siting of a new Arena in SODO for the benefit of
a
"private party" named Christopher Hansen. The very thought of locating 2 additional professional sports franchises
on a
Triple Earthquake Fault/Tideflat Area, already riddled with traffic congestion & broken promises warrants
a public
vote. If our elected & appointed ofcials cannot comprehend the adverse affect
on the Port of Seattle and SODO, then,
the Public must VOTE.

Christopher Hansen's advisors are the same individuals that were involved with "Key Arena". His own Architect stated
that the "footprint" of the SODO site was not big enough to fit the
new Arena. Do you really want a repeat of the "Key
Arena" footprint debacle? Do you want to revisit short-sighted
poor planning? Hansen's advisors should know better.

Christopher Hansen is pledging Arena revenue to pay back the City of Seattle Bonds, Arena Capital Costs, Operating
Expenses, Earthquake Insurance premiums, Arena rent and to help operate "Key Arena" as well. That leaves no profit for
him. There is not enough revenue to go around! The same goes for Parking Garages. The
garages can only serve a
finite number of pro sports franchises. Baseball, football, soccer, basketball, hockey are too many teams (and events) to
be accomodated side by side. Even the Metro Bus Parking Garage is already being used by the Public Stadium '
Authority (Seahawks).

Adding a NHL Hockey team is unlikely. A hockey franchise would require Arena revenue, too. That would take revenue
away from the basketball franchise. But, both franchises would be required to pay back the City and pay off all
expenses. It is a no win situation.

The Biggest Obstacle facing the Christopher Hansen Proposal is AFFORDABILITY. An Elway poll showed that 60% of
the public opposes public money for a new Arena. The cost of attending an NBA & NHL game is prohibitive. Most
residents of King County cannot afford to pay $147.00 per game (41 games). Attendance for Sonic games already
dropped 7 out of the last 8 years they were here. Professional baseball, football, soccer & basketball were all able to be
supported by this 12th size market (in the past) because ticket prices were affordable. They have since doubled. Gas
prices have risen 4-fold. Parking costs are up to $30.00. Concession prices have risen 30%. A toll on 520 is $5.00. An
empty $490 Million Arena is not what the City of Seattle wants to be left with from a Chris Hansen financial
default.

King County and the City of Seattle should not be in the business of subsidizing wealthy, special interest,
Professional Sports Franchise owners. Over $1.5 BILLION has already been spent for supposed civic pride and being
able to call Seattle a major league city. Seattle is regarded as being located in Southwest Alaska. The Mariners are the
"laughing stock" of the country. The Seahawks only won 4 games recently and won only 7 games each of the last 2
years. The public money professional sports franchise subsidizes were a waste of public resources.

IT'S TIME TO STOP THE INSANITY. GIVE THE PUBLIC THE RIGHT TO DECIDE THE BEST USE OF THEIR TAXES.

Sincerely,

Vincent Koskela
10018-62nd Avenue South
Seattle, Washington 98178
(206)-723-7280

Kennedy, Mary Gin

Subject:                 FW: Arena Messages from the Public


From: Creighton, Commissioner John |mailto:John.Creighton@portseattle.orgl
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:39 AM
To: Creighton, John
Subject: FW: Concern with trafc for new SODO arena

From: James OwenbylSMTPzJAMESOWENBY@HOTMAIL.COMl
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:39:58 AM
To: Albro, Commissioner Thomas; Bryant, Commissioner Bill;
Creighton, Commissioner John; Holland, Commissioner Robert;
Tarleton, Commissioner Gael
Subject: Concern with trafc for new SODO arena
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Dear Port Commissioners,

I would like to express to you my deep concern for the trafc impact that
a new arena will have on the SODO
neighborhood and share with you an email I sent to the King County Council, Seattle City Council, The Mayor of Seattle
and the The King County Executive. I know there is a lot at stake for the Port and want to share my sUpport for your
hesitation and questioning of the traffic impact in that neighborhood. Please see my letter pasted in below.

Sincerely

James Owenby
West Seattle
jamesowenby@hotmail.com
206-790-4979


Dear Council Members

I'm writing to voice my concern for the validity and completeness of the recent traffic study
concerning the
traffic impact of a new arena in the SODO neighborhood.

While I was a long time Sonics fan and lament the loss of our NBA Team
a few years back, I'm concerned the
city's collective want for another NBA team and an NHL franchise is clouding their logic with respect to the
traffic impact in the SODO Area and more specifically the freeways that will feed basketball and hockey fans
into that neighborhood. Let me be very clear. i am a basketball fan and I miss the Sonics.

Let me begin by giving you my brief perspective as a commuter I live in West Seattle and commute to
Microsoft in Redmond 19 miles each way where lam a V- (vendor) employee for
a consulting firm. I'm glad to
have the work after being out of work for 13 of 20 months between 2009 and 2011. I do the commute via
car. To answer your questions about mitigating my commute; thus far I have not been able to find a Van pool

or carpool using the rideshare resources to reduce my commute time by using the HOV lanes nor are bus

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options much of an option considering that l have a family and taking a bus from West Seattle to Microsoft
would be a two hour endeavor each way. Furthermore Microsoft's Connector bus (which incidentally picks
up two blocks from my house) is not an option because I am not an employee of Microsoft. Therefore I do the
commute. i don't like it, but i do it. I do tele-commute a bit and shift my schedule whenever possible
so I'm
not commuting at peak times. I am continually looking for work closer to home because moving to the
Eastside is a bit of a hardship for financial and family
reasons. i also continue to look for rideshare
opportunities.

I use my situation to illuminate to you that I spend a lot of time on our roads. I pay the gas taxes and tolls. I
know that adding basketball and hockey in the SODO neighborhood will have
a far greater impact than what
the traffic study has put forth. l commute on the West Seattle Bridge, l-5, l-90, l-405 and
even SR520 on a daily
basis. I spend at least 90 minutes a day commuting a round trip of 38 miles. I can aver to you that on nights of
Mariner games with a 7pm start at Safeco Field, which most often don't bring in
more than 20,000 people,
traffic on I90 is much worse than normal (a non-game night.) It is not un-common for my commute to be 90
minutes to get home the 19 miles. Add to that the additional nights for Sounder
games that also often happen
on week nights and l assert this traffic study is not accurate to what the reality of when
games are. I believe it
merely points to the impact of a new arena in SODO at times of day prior to 5pm.

I will use bullet points to further highlight my
concerns.


0   Basketball and Hockey would add 82 nights
a year of additional traffic. The two sports leagues (NBA
and NHL) share roughly the same calendar
season from roughly Nov to June. This is approximately
180 days of the year where 82 home games will get scheduled. This
means that basically every other
night for a six month period, traffic on I-90 and l-5 will be at a stand-still grind at rush hour from 5pm
to 7pm.

0  There is also a window of time in April, May and June where there
are also Mariners games in SODO
at the same time of year as basketball and hockey. This basically means that nearly every night from
April through part of June (being optimistic our basketball and hockey teams get into the playoffs) that
there will be an event in SODO.

o  The study claims that the Port of Seattle shuts down by 5pm. If this arena is built there would be 82
nights a year where fans are coming into this neighborhood at the same time the Port workers
are
leaving and rush hour traffic is at its peak.

0  Traffic on l-90 and lS is greatly affected by other Seattle event like Husky basketball
games, events at
Key Arena, and typical Friday night "let's get out of town for the weekend" or "come into the city for
the weekend" traffic.

0  Right now Seattle is buried in road construction projects that are facing delay after delay. Let me cite
the West Seattle Bridge widening project that has been delayed
once again and the Mercer mess. The
West Seattle Widening project and loss of the 1't Ave S
on-ramp to the WS Bridge have added 30
minutes a day to my commute alone.

0   Now Seattle residents are facing untold years of road construction with the construction of the
Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel and then ultimately the demolition of the Viaduct and
retro
re-facing of the waterfront.

0  We are looking at conservatively 10 years of road construction and traffic gridlock due to
major
(needed) road construction projects.

0  Adding a new stadium close to the Viaduct and replacement Tunnel projects just adds
more re-routes
and gridlock for an un-foreseeable future.

I don't like being a voice of dissent, however I think someone needs to speak up and be a voice of reason.
Mr.
Hanson is certainly giving the city a great deal with his investment to bring
a new arena and sports franchises
to Seattle, as a fan I salute him and will proudly cheer for our hometown teams however I think an
"independent" study paid for by him is self-serving at the very least.

I welcome the opportunity to hear how traffic
on |5 and I-90 feeding into the SODO neighborhood will be
mitigated for the 82 of 180 days a year of basketball and hockey. I will be paying attention to when there are
public forums for me to ask for answers to my concerns. I would also like to be included on any kind of email
list that notifies me of any such public forum opportunities. Furthermore I would be happy to serve on a
public over-sight committee.

Thank you for your time and consideration of
my concerns. I know I'm not the only one.


Sincerely


James Owenby
West Seattle
iamesowenby@hotmail.com
206-790-4979



PS. I will be watching our former Sonics (now the OKC Thunder
on TV tonight and cheering or them as a fan
of players who once wore a Seattle uniform.)


Kennedy, Mary Gin
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Subject:                 FW: Phone message from Dale Nielsen | Arena Comment


From: Hernandez, Marcela
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:41 AM
To: Bill's Ofce ; Creighton, John; Albro, Thomas; Holland,
Robert; Tarleton, Gael
Cc: Kennedy, Mary Gin
Subject: Phone message from Dale Nielsen | Arena Comment

DATE: 5/23
Time: 10:15
Who: Dale Nielsen
Phone: 206-523-5723
RE: Suggestion and Comment: Create "truck onlylfreight priority" lanes for
use during games and congestion. This will
show value in commercial interests in this
area.


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Subject:                 FW: SODO Arena and Transportation - coordinated reply?


From: Kelly Charlton |mailto:kellycharlton@msn.comI
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 2:23 PM
To: Albro, Commissioner Thomas; Bryant, Commissioner Bill; Creighton, Commissioner
John; Holland,
Commissioner Robert; Tarleton, Commissioner Gael; Tay Yoshitani
; Kurt Beckett; Mark Reis; Linda Styrk
Cc: Mailbox, CenturyAgenda -
Subject: SODO Arena and Transportation

Dear Mr. Yoshitani, Senior Executives, and Port Commissioners,

In 1904 the Great Northern Tunnel was built under downtown Seattle to alleviate rail and traffic
congestion along the waterfront.

After more than 100 years the tunnel is still in use today for freight and passenger trains.

Great Northern Tunnel - Seattle
:      www.histo link.or index.cfm?Dis la  Pa e=out  ut.cfm&file  id=4029

As the city considers the proposed SODO arena, I would like to suggest that all of the rail and mass
transit traffic be put in tunnels underground to alleviate rail and traffic
congestion in SODO.

I believe this would help make Seattle 3 great city for the next 100
years.

Sincerely,
Kelly Charlton
206.920.6764
kellycharlton@msn.com

Kennedy, Mary Gin
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Subject:                 FW: Citizen Comment Regarding the Arena

From: Hernandez, Marcela
Sent: Monday, July 02,2012 2:31 PM
To: Creighton, John, Bill's Ofce; Holland, Robert, Albro,Thomas(Albro.T@_portseattle.org); Tarleton, Gael
Cc: Kennedy, Mary Gin; Yoshitani, Tay; Thomas, Julie; Ly, Patricia
Subject. Citizen Comment Regarding the Arena

Commissioners,

Mr. Tad Sommerville just called and asked I relay the following comment. It is a direct quote.

"The port is not as important as itjust to be. Tacoma has
more land and has taken most of the tenants. In regards to the

new Arena, I think a lot of this hyperbole. The traffic congestion is not created by the traffic. it
Is created by the gates
whichIs an issue created by SSA, Customs, or Labor. It' s an access problem not a traffic congestion issue, it' s a tenant
problem.

Someone should talk to the media and answer the questions
we all have so we can make an informed decision.
Someone needs to be truthful about this, someone like Mr. Yoshitani,      "
I guess.

Mr. Tad Sommerville
206 300 3425

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Administrator, Office of the Commission
206. 787.3037/Fax 206.728.3381

cf Seattle

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Try as you might, there are no traffic improvements big enough to solve the problems the
new arena
will bring. A nineteenth century humorist, Josh
Billings, summed up the situation perfectly, "1'here ain't
enny more room on the back of a duck for enny more feathers." There is only so much land around the
proposed project. Most of the area is already covered with roads
or rails. Where can you put more
trafc lanes? The area is already saturated.

But there is one place where there is
room: up in the air.

Monorail can not only deliver 'butts to the seats', it will
not interfere with surface traffic. importantly, it
will bring customers and only customers. It will not bring their cars (where are
you going to put all of
those cars?). The monorail would free
up money which would otherwise be spent on building a larger
parking garage, allowing this money to be spent on the
arena itself. it would add free time to the
patron's experience of coming to a basketball
game, concert or other show.

This monorail would not bring customers 'close'
to the arena: the track would go right
up alongside the
building. Customers would step from the vehicles onto the
concourse of the arenamuch like the ramp
from an airliner to the gate of the airport.
Leaving the monorail, you are not blocks from the arena, but
one hundred feet from your seat.

Monorails will deliver. The Hitachi Heavy Urban trains, with standard four
car sets, carry 632
passengers. Streetcars like the South Lake Union vehicle carry 60 people.

The monorail is less expensive to build than
any other transportation system. When you build a road,
every square foot must be engineered, handled and formed for concrete. A rail line is
not a matter of
'putting down track'. The soil below for fifteen feet deep must be dug
up and re'engineered. The
underlayment of the line must be placed back, packed and tamped. But
a monorail is simply a set of
giant Lagos. Every one hundred feet,you dig and
pour a foundation. Then, you put in a column and
place the rails atop. Good crews in 1962 assembled three hundred feet
per day of monorail track.

Monorail safety records are unbelievably good: there have been
no passenger fatalities on a monorail
system, ever. No monorail has ever run into a pedestrian-nor do they have
to slow down for
pedestrians.

Monorails operate on a different, unique plane. This allows the
monorail to do its job. It does not allow
interference with any other trafc.

Monorails are the best system for quickly moving tens of thousands of
people two-to~twenty miles.
They are safe, efficient and economical.

DICK FALKENBURY



7547 32Nn NE (205) 3902407

SEATTLE, WA 98115 (206)527-193D
rALKENBuRY@w-Lm ram-:1

THE PLAN

We will extend the current Seattle monorail from Westlake Center to the stadiums and
beyond to the
new arena site.

The current monorail and track will be utilized. The track will be extended to Nob Hill Avenue North and
Mercer to facilitate the use of the existing parking
garage in this area. The Westlake Station would be
rebuilt to allow for simiiutaneous use of both north and south bound tracks. In addition, the new
station would allowfor an increase in passengerboardings.

The track would continue south on Fifth Avenue to Union Street where it would turn
west to Fourth
Avenue. it would go south on Fourth to Madison Street. There would be
a station built over the plaza
of the 1001 4'" building. Continuing on Fourth to James, there would be
a station constructed at the site
of the old police headquarters between Fourth and Third Avenues and between James and
Cherry
Streets. There would be an escalator service directly to the mezzanine level of the Seattle Transit
Tunnel. The monorail track would continue on Fourth to Jackson Street. Here would be another station
over the roadway between the Union Station and the King Street Station. The track would then travel
down Fourth to approximately Weller Street where it would turn west. The tracks would
y over the
railroad tracks and land at a station to be built in the plaza at the north end of the Century Link Field.
Ramps from the station would lead directly to seating areas within the complex. The monorail would go
south on Occidental Avenue South to Royal Brougham Way. Here would be
a station sewing the
Century Link Field, the Event Center and Safeco Field. All three venues would be served by ramps
leading from the station into the buildings. There would also be street/sidewalk access to and from the
station. The track would continue, albeit with trains and track one-atop-theother rather than side-by-
side, along the First Avenue South (Dave Niehaus Way) side of the Safeco Field. Direct access from the
train onto the concourse of the complex will be built here. The track would
go to the site of the new
arena where a station would be built between the Safeco parking garage and the new
arena, again with
direct access between the station and the venues. The track will turn east
on South Holgate Street.
There will be approximately one half mile of track to serve as storage and maintenance for the
system.

The monorail extension will use the same trains as the current monorail. The rails of the track will be
constructed of steel truss with small plates of concrete for the running surface for the tires instead of
the traditional ail-concrete rail. The trains will be a hybrid model to eliminate the costs of
a power
supply system. This will also increase the reliability. The electrical power will be supplied by
a- three way
redundancy: diesel engines, recharging at all stations and solar power collected from panels
on both
the roof of the stations and the vehicles. Major maintenance and repair will be done off site and off
track.

THE BUSINESS MODEL

The current monorail carries some two million passengers per year. A
new station will add more
passengers to the system. Each additional station will add increasing numbers of new passengers as
both the service area and number of destinations increase. The new station at Fourth Avenue and
Madison will add 500,000 passengers per year. The next station at Fourth and James will add 750,000

passengers per year. The stations at the end of the trackNob Hill and Mercer at the north and the
stadiums/arena on the southare really stations attached to parking
garages. On days when the
Seattle Center is packed, like Bumpershoot and Folklife,
passengers will park at the stadiums and travel
by monorail. When there is a football, baseball orsoccer match, they will park at Seattle Center
or
downtown and get to the venues by monorail. It would be in the best interest if the stadium and arena
'bought out' the monorails and offered to transport their fans for free (happier customers, having
more
money in their pockets to spend in the venues and time to spend it).

The extended monorail would see six million
passengers per year.

The farebox will bring in ten million a year.

The business model rests on two facts:

-We will have no operators, drivers, attendants
or any other personal on the monorails. Automation
will allow us to recoup the investment. Just as computers changed the ofce world, the financial
markets and so on, the automation of transportation will alter the financing of public transit. Think of
how much you paid for your last elevator ride.

--"No one makes money selling a ticket for the train;
you make money selling coffee to the person
waiting to get on the train." Our business model will be the airport concourse and not the airline. We
will sell coffee, food and drink. We will market co-utilizatlon of
our corridor for carrying fiber optic,
electricity and other linear utilities. We will aggressively pursue all avenues of advertising,
cross-
marketlng and branding. We are creating a customer base of passengers which
we will sell to others.

The revenue from other-than-farebox will exceed forty million
a year.

COSTS AND lNVESTMENT

We will finance the construction of the extension of the monorail with private investment. We do this
because it will ensure that it gets built. Private investment will ensure costs of construction and
operation are kept to a minimum. We will seek private investment because we will be protable.
Private investment will participate because this monorail will be profitable.

The extension from Westlake Center to the Holgate storage will be approximately
two miles long. The
costs of construction will be no more than $100 million and could be substantially less.

Construction rms are expected to invest by foregoing
a traditional lump sum payment at the end of
construction. instead, they will take their payment over a fifty year timeline. The Hitachi Corporation
will lIease' us the monorail trains for fty years. The advertisers and all others would
'buy' future
opportunities in their respective fields. (For example, City Light will 'pay' ten million today for the right
to run their electric wires through the track infrastructure for fifty years.) By investing directly on the
construction end and buyingfutures on the other side, the
necessary funds can be gathered to build the
entire system without any government subsidy or taxpayer assistance.

in addition, the private investors will be required to continue
to extend the monorail both north and
south as long as protability is maintained. Each extension will
only grow theprofit, both nominally and
as a return on total investment.

It is merely an added benefit the monorail will deliver
passengers to the venues economically, efficiently
and safelywithout adding to trafc
on the surface around the stadiums and arena. No other
system
not even walkingcan make this claim.

What went wrong with the Seattle Monorail Project?
The monorail should have been constructed like a giant set of Legos, with
many pieces and parts exactly
the same. instead, the project was unnecessarily complicated.

--The track was a complex span, not a simple span scheme. The columns
were not all the same. The
rails were connected with tightened wires requiring a concrete connection, formed and poured at each
rail~and~column junction.

"The power system was overly robust. This meant that the transformers had to be huge, which in
turn
meant that expensive private land had to be purchased. The transformers
were too large to fit in the
publicly owned right-of~way.

-~The track was carried forty feet above grade. This is twice the height of the current track.

"The foundations were required to sit atop bedrock; in places the foundations would extend 270 feet
deep.

-Each station was unique. Each station had to be designed individually.

The planers also burdened the project with labor costs.

"The t0p ten managers would be paid over $2 million per year.

-There were thirty-nine mechanics assigned to the trains from the first day. Electric motors are
notorious for being maintenance free.

--Each station would have an attendant, largely assigned to answering questions of the riding public.
They were not security; there was additional personal for security. Station attendants were to be paid
$130,000 per year.

The financing was flawed as well.

The contingency fund was to be brought together
on the first day. This meant the Project would be
paying interest on a billion dollars even before it was needed.

"The construction schedule was too short. Adding even a few months would have saved hundreds of
millions of dollars.

"There was no significant effort to seek revenue other-than-the-fa rebox.

There was no significant effort to seek funds from other agencies, governments
or private sources.

The problems mentioned above are only the most serious missteps. There
were many other, lesser
mistakes in construction costs, staffing and financing. While smaller, these other problems added
millions to the Seattle Monorail Project.


Kennedy, Mary Gin
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! Sent to Seattle Times andKen Schram. Highway to Heaven for New Arena Build a
l two-lane elevated roadway over BNSF's current tracks between Seattle Port and
West Seattle Freeway. The result provides exclusive truck and Port employee
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5 merging trucks onto US99 djuring daily commuting hours stops destruction of
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use and, last, event attendees have eased access to/from parking for events with
Port truck trafc removed from sportsfan roadways. As part of this proejct, BNSF
i realigns its roadways, if necessary, with its rail beds rebuilt for renewed, long-
term service to the Port. Cost of this roadway would be shared1n varying dgrees by
the new arena, Seattle Port Authority, WSDOT, BNSF, City of Seattle, King
and Safeco as all benet from this elevated roadway
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