Seattle Center Monorail To Return This Summer

Seattle Center Monorail To Return This Summer

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Story Published: Feb 9, 2006 at 10:13 AM PST

Story Updated: Aug 31, 2006 at 1:12 AM PST

By KOMO Staff & News Services

SEATTLE - The Seattle Center monorail should be running again this summer.

That was the announcement Thursday from Mayor Greg Nickels. He added that the cost of the repairs will range between $3 and $4 million, but the majority of the bill will be paid by insurance, and the rest will be covered through grants and operation revenue when the monorail resumes service.

No general fund dollars will go to the repairs.

Only one of two monorail trains will run at a time after the repairs are complete this summer until an automated system is in place to prevent operators from colliding like they did last November at a narrow turn near the downtown Westlake terminal. That system should be in place by the following winter.

The monorail is a tourist attraction that carries more than 2 million people a year between the Seattle Center and the downtown retail core.

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