LIVE: What the new I-5 bridge between Portland, Vancouver could look like

[@SteveHutchcraft]

I clicked on this story to read the comments. Great entertainment. Can’t decide if I should laugh or cry.

[@copyprint-fz2hb]

will there be room for the tents ???

[@Thaumazzar]

I think I'll start a ferry company.

[@tazmod7272]

Here we go again. Over the years millions have been spent to do proposals what to do.

[@dwaneholiday4043]

Great ... The finback worked real well in Florida. 5 days after they put it up,it collapsed. Great job odot

[@erikanders3343]

well it was also built in Florida with their dysfunctional government and using cheep Chinese steel. "National Transportation and Safety Board officials later concluded the design firm underestimated the load of the bridge and overestimated its strength in a critical section that splintered."

[@joeypollack5651]

@@erikanders3343 so Florida just sucks at everything and PDX your excrement smells like roses. Great logic. I hope it collapses. I don't have to drive to the Couve

[@joeypollack5651]

@@erikanders3343 Florida's government doesn't allow open air fentanyl use so I would say they are doing better than us.

[@joeypollack5651]

@@erikanders3343 now if you want to see dysfunctional, look at the State with the little boy governor and the big man greeedy land developer and how they treat everyone like crap who isn't them.

[@joeypollack5651]

@@erikanders3343 Florida's constitution was also not based on racism. Oregon has no room to throw stones at ANY state in the union.

[@connerway]

I don’t care how much it costs myself and the rest of the Portland Vancouver area, I don’t want another lift bridge!

[@williamlloyd3769]

Great interview, very informative! Appreciate your taking the time to go over key issues and alternatives.

[@MarkJohnson-zy4fd]

Based on Portland’s and Oregon’s longstanding hostility to the automobile I am not convinced the bridge will EVER be replaced. In addition, the costs to satisfy the demands of all the interest groups will make the bridge unaffordable. Eventually, the existing bridge will fall into the river. Another great victory for Oregon.

[@erikanders3343]

its not about hostility to the automobile, its that Washington and specifically Vancouver refuses to pay for any of it. Which is why Oregon always brings up a toll on the bridge going south.

[@forgottenman8629]

and why does Vancouver have such antipathy to it? Simply called Tri-Met, when Tri-Met no longer has 'any' role in the needed bridge it will see much welcoming by Vancouver... @@erikanders3343

[@kevinmanan1304]

@@erikanders3343 aren’t cross border interstates suppose to be funded by the federal government? I never understood why such an important connection between different states should be funded on the backs of 2 cities.

[@dyson9422]

Sea level rise should be the seventh issue to be addressed in a bridge that is to last 100 years.

[@PNWJEEPER01]

Maybe if you're on the planning committee or stand to benefit politically these renderings look great, but if you're from Vancouver these are all offensive monstrosities.

[@onegreatstarfish]

who cares?

[@mojavesojourner]

I like the look of the existing bridge, but look forward to a wider bike path and bringing max to Vancouver.

[@marklynch3918]

Did you seriously just say we need to incorporate “climate” and “equity” into the bridge’s design? 😂

[@kevinmanan1304]

They should? Imagine a bridge designed with a toll of $7 to fund it. It’ll be a burden to those who need it but can’t afford the one way $7 toll. That’s 30 min worth of work at minimum wage gone. It gets cold in PNW, bridge roads freeze first, they should have climate in mind otherwise people will drive off the bridge in winter like the 205 where the snow accumulates making a ramp off the bridge.

[@markdavis8888]

I5 bridge replace has glossed over the most important issue. How will Portland and Vancouver survive without the I5 bridge for the years it takes to remove and build? The economy of this area will crash without that river crossing. The bridge should not be removed until another crossing is in place. I don't understand how our leadership, if you can call it that, can be so clueless.

[@johndunkle472]

Additional bridges, plain simple bridges. No wasted money on light rail or any other waste of money ideas. If you had 4 or 5 bridges across the river you would solve your traffic problems. The amount of money our "elected" politicians have wasted talking about it, have paid themselves all these years talking about it there could have been multiple new bridges built by now. When we put into office clueless people you get what we now have.

[@sirenwerks]

when will BNSF replace its decrepit bridge over the Columbia to strengthen the regions earthquake resilience?

[@pondmaker]

They should consider a Tunnel under the Columbia.

[@OnlyFan_NoFanny]

looks like made from ChatGPT

[@lmankj]

Congestion is the biggest issue…

[@sportbros1]

right!? they don’t even mention that

[@mojavesojourner]

Personally, I bike over the bridge to reduce congestion. I’m looking forward to the light rail coming to Vancouver so I don’t have to drive downtown or to the airport.

[@tseckwr3783]

The first problem with this bridge is that is looks like LOOT rail is going across it. We do not need any more Portland criminals in Clark County. If the 3rd bridge would have been build in the 1990's, All those wishing to avoid Portland could be using that bridge as well as the 205 bridge. Clark County to Beaverton and points west. A win-win. Any bridge with light rail service -- lost my interest and I will vote against.

[@mojavesojourner]

Ive been in Vancouver for 20 years, hearing about this bridge replacement the whole time. I’m looking forward to light rail so I don’t have to drive to downtown Portland. Of course, I might be dead by the time it’s finished.

[@pondmaker]

They should consider a Tunnel under the Columbia.