"Urban Coyote I" by Seattlest Flickr contributor prima seadiva The Belltowner covered the Monorail's latest debacle. If the Monorail is looking for a new slogan, we submit the following: "The Monorail--And You Thought the Ferries Were Busted."Phinneywood celebrated the latest artistic addition to their neighborhood: a mural by local artist Ryan Henry Ward. Ward is in the midst of trying to paint 50 different murals in Seattle neighborhoods.Central District News warns of coyotes in the......

"Sound Transit test" courtesy of Flickr contributor andrewmartin Seattlest always kind of wants to roll our eyes when some transportation option gets put to voters in these parts. Call it a Pavlovian response trained into us through years of noncommittal discussion about monorails. But, today the Seattle Times is reporting that we'll get to vote on a light rail system that'll take folks to places like Overlake, Star Lake, and Lynnwood (sweet!). In order to......

"Bona Fide, Electrified, Monorail Station" by Seattlest Flickr contributor David Hogan Engineers will be filling the easily-laughed-at but fiercely-protected monorail with kegs. A keg party on the monorail--sounds promising or at the very least, nauseating. Getting drunk on a monorail that goes nowhere--it could be the hippest new theme bar or some tragic Seattle metaphor. Sadly, it is neither. The kegs will be filled with water, not fine local microbrews, and will be used to......

We've been locking our keyboard in a drawer to keep ourselves from putting up any "this is the weekend the green line would have begun service" posts, both because it's been done and because it's history. Yes, it would have been great to have, but we decided against it. If there's anything like a blog to mark the day in the distant future when we'd have it paid off we'll be impressed. But a reader......