IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN a Jetsons future for Seattle. A gleaming new monorail would silently skim along above the rooftops, whisking contented commuters into the city so smoothly that not a ripple would mar the surfaces of their $4 Tully’s mint mochas. Seattle was so in love with this vision–sleek, futuristic, anti-car–that voters had approved the proposed monorail four times, most recently last November by a whopping 64 percent.

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