By The Tim on May 27, 2010
With tolls of $1 to $5 per crossing coming to a floating bridge near you in less than a year and local governments planning to add tolls to every freeway as early as 2030, now is a good time to think about how adding such per-use fees to our freeways might affect the home prices [...]
Posted in Local, News | Tagged commute, tolls, transportation
By The Tim on March 28, 2010
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Posted in Polls | Tagged commute, gas prices, Polls, transportation
By The Tim on July 7, 2008
I realized we have beat the subject to death with a pair of posts and this week’s poll, but I had to at least point out a Rhodes piece in today’s Seattle Times on the issue of gas prices and home buying patterns: Will gas prices drive homebuyers away from suburbs? The article starts off [...]
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By The Tim on July 6, 2008
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By The Tim on June 29, 2008
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By The Tim on June 23, 2008
In a discussion last month where we discussed the relationship between gas prices and home purchase decisions, I made the following assertion: …mathematically the decision to move closer just because of higher gas prices doesn’t really make sense. In the last few days I’ve run across a few news articles that again make the contrary [...]
Posted in Features | Tagged commute, gas prices, transportation