It worked in Seattle. Now, the push is on to get people who live on the Eastside on board the idea of a monorail.

Backers say their biggest selling point is that area's nasty traffic.

A grassroots group called "Citizens for a King County Monorail" will soon start gathering signatures to put a monorail initiative on the November ballot.

It would create a commission to look at potential monorail routes and funding.

"It's certainly not our elected officials at this point that are going to be looking into this - it's definitely going to take the people," Karin Blakley, a monorail supporter.

Possible routes include one along 520 from Redmond to Seattle and another that would stretch from Bothell down the 405 corridor and south to Federal Way. A third would take a monorail over the north end of Lake Washington.

It will take 45,000 signatures to put the measure on the November ballot.