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Entries from November 2008

47 Percent Drop in New York Hotel Price Insanity Index

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Travel

I posted back in September about how (despite the Wall Street meltdown) hotel rooms in New York appeared to be insanely overpriced. If hotel rates tracked to the Dow, the room I booked back in 2003 at $225.00 per night should have cost $248.00 in Sept. The real rate? A gouge-a-rific $579.00. At the current […]

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Hey Seattle Downtown Homeowners: Forbes Says Ya Shoulda Rented

November 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Crazy Urbanites

Hey downtown hipsters! As if the inability to park, and getting mugged when you go out to walk the dog weren’t enough, now you have to deal with the fact that Forbes says you’ve bought into the number three most overpriced zip code in the country: That’s okay, the real estate values will surge when […]

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520 Rebuild Way More Expensive Than Previously Thought: I Called it Back in July

November 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments · 520 Bridge

Jeez, who would have thought that cost estimates from 2006 would be way off from today’s numbers? I did. Maybe I should be hired as a consultant for the DOT. Here’s Ron Paananen of the WSDOT today, regurgitating my comments from July: Paananen says the governor and legislature still have to finalize a plan to pay for the […]

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Why I-90 Won’t be Tolled to Fund 520

November 10th, 2008 · No Comments · 520 Bridge

A politician would be crazy to ignore numbers like these (if you assume they reflect the electorate.) This is from a KIRO online poll that launched on Oct 22. The “Yes” numbers haven’t changed in several weeks, so it will be interesting to see if a flurry of clicks come in now. (I’ve seen results […]

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