My simple math is that’s $900 million. My eyes roll in the back of my head when I think about that much money.

Sound Transit board member Kent Keel of Pierce County, Wash., making an ultimately successful argument to abandon ideas for $650 million tunnels into historic neighborhoods and a fully elevated trackway in south downtown. Cheaper alternatives will still cost millions of dollars to connect the outlying neighborhoods by 2030. (Seattle Times – October 25, 2019)