I have been researching old articles and came up with this one today. As we build the history I will keep posting. Give us a few months and we should get a good set of articles to comment on. This one is from the Monorail Society.
Joel Horn to head up Seattle Monorail…if. (11/17/02)
Seattle, Washington. Elevated Transportation Company (ETC) board members announced that Joel Horn, who worked for the ETC for the last year, will lead the project of building the14-mile Green Line monorail linking Ballard, downtown and West Seattle. One major hurdle remains before the project can officially get started, the vote count from the November 5th election must be completed and Monorail Yes must be the winner! Certification of the results are due Wednesday, November 20th. If the monorail gets voter approval, a new Seattle Popular Monorail Authority will be established to construct the monorail. Among many accomplishments, Horn worked for developer Wright Runstad and put together a deal that relocated Amazon.com into the high-profile PacMed building on Beacon Hill. ETC board members lauded Horn at the Friday ETC meeting, although they won’t take a vote to promote him to the position until a yes vote has been certified. Board member Harolynne Bobis said “I firmly believe we would not have had the plan available for voters were it not for Joel’s tireless tenacity in making it happen.
What was the top speed of the monorail going to be?
Hi Bill, the top speeds were modeled at 50 mph. The current Seattle Center monorail can actually go quite a bit faster if given the room to run. The Hitachi trains that we were going to purchase could also go faster but were limited to 50 mph in our test simulations.
Joel Horn