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How to Survive the Blue Angels

Michael van Baker — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:20:58 +0000

Every year, a certain number of Seattle residents wince at the first flight, many apparently residents of Capitol Hill. For various reasons--War machines! Scared pets! Migraines! Jet fuel smog! Wait, I-90 is closed?!--the shriek of F/A-18 Hornets sets their nerves on edge, to such an extent that even reminding them how much money Boeing makes from constructing these things doesn't help. (A: $30 to $60 million per.)

New Stadium Notion Leaves Port, the Ms Feeling Congested Even Before Tunnel Toll

Michael van Baker — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:42:59 +0000

But, faced with years of tunnel-construction and Viaduct-destruction, the Port and Mariners have decided a new stadium is a bridge too far. Why? Fears of traffic congestion. Here is a delightful section of the Port's letter to all and sundry in which they discover that they never got their promised east-west connectors, that tolls divert traffic, and that they forgot to demand meaningful construction mitigation.

Seattle’s Shunpikers Slice $200 Million From Tunnel Toll Estimates

Michael van Baker — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:09:08 +0000

WSDOT is not normally in the habit of announcing that they have $200 million in fun money they have no use for. There exist WSDOT projects with perhaps more impact than ferrying 57,000 vehicles (per day by 2030) past Seattle's core. For comparison, Mercer Street, which carries 80,000 vehicles per day, is getting a makeover costing $164 million, $36 million less than WSDOT's estimating error on their $3.1-billion tunnel project.