Ken Schram: Do they get how insulting and offensive this is?
There are two ways of looking at this.
One is that it's only $10,000.
The other is: Holy Mackerel! It's 10-freaking-thousand dollars!
With a much stronger adjective, the latter is my reaction.
Here's what's going on.
Sound Transit is going to hire someone to be the "artistic overseer" of a plywood wall.
That would be the wall going up as construction begins on the Capitol Hill light rail station.
Transit officials blithely explain that they need to pay an artistic manager 10-freaking-thousand dollars! to keep the plywood interesting for people going by as the rail station is being built.
Hello? McFly?
Do any of the transit bureaucrats get how insulting and offensive this is to us taxpayers?
We'd be the ones struggling in the midst of a recession.
We'd be the ones who may soon be paying taxes on a Kit Kat bar; the ones being asked to consider more taxes along with higher fees and licenses; the ones watching our schools go wanting.
We're paying tolls on roads we already paid to build.
10-freaking-thousand dollars! for art on a temporary plywood wall?
Hide behind that one-percent for art all you want.
This sucks.
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One is that it's only $10,000.
The other is: Holy Mackerel! It's 10-freaking-thousand dollars!
With a much stronger adjective, the latter is my reaction.
Here's what's going on.
Sound Transit is going to hire someone to be the "artistic overseer" of a plywood wall.
That would be the wall going up as construction begins on the Capitol Hill light rail station.
Transit officials blithely explain that they need to pay an artistic manager 10-freaking-thousand dollars! to keep the plywood interesting for people going by as the rail station is being built.
Hello? McFly?
Do any of the transit bureaucrats get how insulting and offensive this is to us taxpayers?
We'd be the ones struggling in the midst of a recession.
We'd be the ones who may soon be paying taxes on a Kit Kat bar; the ones being asked to consider more taxes along with higher fees and licenses; the ones watching our schools go wanting.
We're paying tolls on roads we already paid to build.
10-freaking-thousand dollars! for art on a temporary plywood wall?
Hide behind that one-percent for art all you want.
This sucks.
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Have something to say to Ken? Login or signup below to post a comment. Just be sure to read the rules and keep things civil. You can also e-mail him at kenschram@komo4news.com.
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