During the last year of the existence of the Seattle Monorail Project, we continually heard how outrageously expensive the idea was and, unfortunately, due to the total mismanagement of Joel Horn and Tom Weeks, there was truth in the argument.

Still, the Sound Transit opus on the other side of the city racks up charges that puts even the Horn-Weeks junk bond fiasco to shame. Of course, that project is under the protection of the powers that be, so it continues on with no criticism from the metro daily newspapers nor government officials.

But monorail is now on its way out. Even so, some in Ballard - and maybe here in West Seattle, too - want to use the property it acquired for stations as a sort of social engineering program. Some neighborhood leaders in Ballard want the Legislature to legalize selling the property at below the best possible bid. One argument is that someone who has a project some of these leaders may not like in their area might buy the land.

Monorail says, rightly, it is not in the land use business, just the getting out of the transportation business.

The naysayers wanted the monorail to go away.

We agree and say sell the property for the most money possible, pay off the debt and bury this project - maybe in the same hole where the historic old dilapidated monorail could be dumped.

Imagine! The totally monorail-less city. At last.