Oregon and Washington: We’ll start building a new Interstate Bridge by 2025

The Oregonian ^ | September 24, 2019 | Andrew Theen

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

For one thing, both the northbound and southbound bridges are lift bridges. Those lift spans are going to eventually fail to work on a routine basis, if they are not failing already.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Washingtoonians still shouldn’t pay income tax to Oregoonians. After all, their economic activity in Portland will eventually redound positively to Oregon’s coffers.

[Publius]

You always pay income tax both to the state where you work and the state where you live. Talk to people who live in New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Maryland or Pennsylvania but work in an adjacent state.

[Jack Black]

Don’t they pay Oregon sales tax when they step out for lunch?

Oregon doesn't have any sales tax. Washington doesn't have any income tax.

Yes, it's weird to pay taxes on income in a state you don't live in, but that's the law. NBA players have to pay income tax in Oregon for the games they play in Oregon, even if they live in Texas or Florida.

The bridge in question is on I-5. It's the busiest road in the State, it's the highway that connects the West Coast from Mexico to California. There is not one other toll on it.

There is zero reason that it should not be paid for out of the same taxes that maintain all 46,000 miles of Interstate which includes innumerable numbers of bridges and extensive overpasses.

Why no tolls on this? I'm sure it cost more to build then the simple 1 mile bridge across the Columbia.

I suspect one reason it can't be paid for with highway taxes is the insistence of the Socialist Retards that it MUST carry the Crime Train into Vancouver, so that we, too, can be enriched by the wandering thugs of vibrant street gangs. Which means that it can't be paid for (exclusively) probably by gas-tax highway funds.

[Cold Heart]

The crime train would also take up TWO lanes of traffic.

Portland already has a useless new bridge called the Tillicum crossing where no cars are allowed. One TV news channel proudly shows the almost always empty bridge on their weather segment. They should show it on their traffic segment alongside the other clogged bridges.