We hope that someday soon the citizens of this city can, as a whim, order Seattle City Council members to be re-elected five time before they can serve. Then perhaps we will have council members who can make intelligent decisions based on public need and not on fear for their elective hides.

We laughed loudly when the Council sent the monorail board a letter beseeching it to go slowly in disposing of their right-of-way property in case there were some uses the city could make of the alignment for some sort of transit they might think of in the future.

Monorail board members said the request was ironic. Our "i" word is idiotic.

Is this the same council who axed the future of the only real chance for West Seattle to get any good form of mass transportation for the next 40 years? What do they serve you folks in your coffee every morning?

As it is, voters are angry at having voted down the monorail only to finally realize - we warned you - they will be paying for the monorail for up to another two years.

If the monorail board falls for this Council game, the payoff period will be even longer.

We hope our faith in candidate - now soon to be monorail board member - Beth Goldberg was justified and that she will use her fiscal talents to send the City Council back into their caves to doodle while the city's infrastructure continues to crumble. Just lately the city says it will "study" transit, any transit, just not any kind of monorail.

Ms. Goldberg, we are looking to you for leadership to get the property sold to private buyers - or the city if it offers good, hard cash - and get this sorry tale behind us.