The Seattle that could have been: Proposed versions of the city that failed to pass Sign In FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Plans for a vast civic park known as the Seattle Commons was just one initiative that failed to pass in Seattle. Show MoreShow Less 2of3 Photo of the proposed floating stadium in the March 5, 1963 edition of the Post-IntelligencerSeattle Post-IntelligencerShow MoreShow Less 3of3 Not all Seattle infrastructure projects pan out according to plan, and many times, Seattleites have only themselves to blame — or thank — for that. For example, on this day in 1970, King County voters rejected a bond package known as the "Forward Thrust" which would have built a regional rail transit system heavily subsidized by the federal government. Instead, the federal money was passed to Atlanta's MARTA system, according to History Link.