You know, there is a bridge already across the river at Long View.
You have long view on one side of the river and almost nothing on the other side. Maybe they should just beef up that bridge and eliminate the I5 Bridge entirely. After all, we still have the other bridge by the airport over the river.
They should divert I5 up 30 and call it good, we don’t have the money for all this duplication anymore.
I live in Longview. It is nearly a 40 mile drive between Rainier and Columbia City, all two lane with a lot of drunks out driving. Not a thing to consider unless you have to drive that stretch and besides, it seems the Mexican drug smugglers dump dead bodies in the countryside along in there.
What I’m thinking of is a ferry from Woodland, WA, over to Columbia City/Saint Helens, OR.
Traffic going to Hillsboro, Beaverton, or points south of Tigard could take the ferry and completely bypass Portland. The folks in Cornelius Pass won’t like it, but it would probably be cheaper to run four lanes through there than to build a big, honkin’ bridge!