[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[bray]

They will replace the two lanes with one.

[Ezekiel]

“Traffic on I-5 on the bridge, it's really, it's sometimes a bad commute,” said Sharifa Alkhativ, who has been commuting across the Interstate Bridge for 18 years.

Looks like the definition of insanity on a number of levels.

[chief lee runamok]

"The organization representing both states has been working up a new bridge-building plan for more than a year."

More like a few decades.

Several million dollars have been spent on the i/5 bridge replacement plan already.

By 2024, that figure should be approaching a billion dollars.

[RideForever]

Just part of the daily gauntlet WA drivers have to face ... concrete chunks busting windshields in Tacoma / Seattle, hours long traffic jams across the Columbia to Portland, where challenging speed limitations of 50 in tight, blind freeway curves on Portland’s freeways create opportunity for havoc. Then you face lanes so full of trucks you can’t see road signs for exits, etc.

[Twotone]

If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.

[nd76]

One of the great tax straddles in the USA depends on the I-5 bridge over the Columbia River. If you live in Washington state, you don’t pay any state income tax. If you shop in Oregon, you don’t pay any state sales tax.